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Four Ways to Properly Store Vaccines
Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, February 10, 2010
"While we don't advocate any particular brand of refrigerator, we can say that the standard sized freezerless refrigerators perform very well, but the dorm style refrigerators do not and should not be used for storing vaccines," said NIST physicist Gregory Strouse.
He added that the research showed that healthcare providers really do not need to spend "several thousand dollars on a pharmaceutical grade refrigerator simply for the purpose of storing vaccines."
The NIST group plans said it plans to perform further comparisons of standard sized refrigerators with freezers and pharmaceutical-grade refrigerators. It also will evaluate strategies for shipping vaccines overland.
Janice Simmons is a senior editor and Washington, DC, correspondent for HealthLeaders Media Online. She can be reached at jsimmons@healthleadersmedia.com.
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