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Air transport container qualification: A case history

During his Healthcare Packaging Conference & Workshop presentation, Geoffrey Glauser discussed a recent company project that involved design qualification, operational qualification, and performance qualification for an active air cargo unit. In this instance, the container was an AcuTemp RKN thermal pallet shipper manufactured by CSafe for a unit-dose device that can be fork-lifted into the belly of an aircraft.

Before finding a vendor, the company determined that its solution would require that the product be lifted by a forklift, and function within the 2° to 8° C temperature range, without deviations. It had to ship from virtually any global location to any other global location by air within 120 hours. “We wanted our high-risk, high-value products to be shipped in this container that would need to handle multiple products where necessary,” says Glauser.

The company sought an active solution and conducted bracketed mass, volume, time, and temperature testing. It also observed battery life, alarm systems, cooling capacity, and determined how well it preconditions. “In other words,” Glauser explains, “How long does it take to come to temperature and when you open a door, how does that temperature respond once you’ve opened it and closed it in a controlled room temperature environment? How integrated is it from an operating standpoint? Is it simple to operate? Are the read-outs easy to use? Can warehouse floor people operate it and get it set up without much of an issue? Is the operator manual simple to use? We used a hybrid methodology so that we could get consistent, repeatable use out of it. It was very important that it met the parameters we described.”

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