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Cold chain event embraces all links in the pharmaceutical supply chain

Cold Chain Global Forum acknowledges that all distribution and logistics stakeholders, from packaging suppliers to patients, must be involved in successful temperature management efforts.

Visit a trade show with conferences and exhibits and you’re likely to hear speakers offer the seemingly obligatory thank you to sponsors, with encouragement to visit their booths. At the 11th Annual Cold Chain GDP & Temperature Management Logistics Global Forum held at Chicago’s McCormick Place, presenters throughout the day on Oct. 2 made it a point to acknowledge that these vendors are actually driving technology, leading the way for pharmaceutical/biologics/medical device manufacturers, continuing a trend Healthcare Packaging has seen in recent years.

Conference Chairman Rafik H. Bishara, PhD, Technical Advisor and Leader of the Parenteral Drug Assn.’s Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Interest Group (PCCIG) noted that pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical firms for years were seen as the leaders in providing technologies, and many continue to view themselves as such, yet he said it was the suppliers that were now taking the lead in many instances.

“Suppliers have really stepped up. The vendors are now the experts, not necessarily the pharmaceutical companies,” noted Jeff Seeley, Sr. Manager Cold Chain Technology, GMS Packaging Services, Packaging Technology & Innovation with Pfizer Inc.

In fact, supplier input in developing documentation was welcomed by Mary Foster, U.S. Pharmacopeia’s Chair Expert Committee, Packaging, Storage and Distribution of Drug Products. Foster’s presentation, “New Direction for USP on Supply Chain and Drug Distribution,” noted that the Pharmacopeial Convention continues to seek experts in a variety of distribution, logistics, and packaging functions to help write meaningful chapters of knowledge to help industry.

She said that there needs to be input from suppliers to help end-user companies, with that input provided in an informative, noncommercial way.

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