ISTA Pharma Committee Virtual Roundtable Discussions: Aug. 11 and 25

As a follow up to the open meeting held in June, the ISTA Pharma Committee will host two roundtable discussions in August to discuss in-depth the top two topics of interest from the industry survey.

International Safe Transit Association (ISTA)

Aug 5th, 2020

Medical Vials Cold Chain

The goal for each session is to refine the specific industry needs resulting in a defined scope and activity level for each topic below.We hope you can join the meetings and actively participate in the discussions. At the end of the discussions the ISTA Pharma Committee will ask industry members to volunteer their time to participate in the specific activities for each topic.

Roundtable discussion topics:

Ambient Temperature Profile Creation, Analysis, and Selection

Tuesday, August 11th

11am - 12:30pm EST

Sign up for August 11th topic

Performance Qualification/Verification

Tuesday, August 25th

11am - 12:30pm EST

Sign up for August 25th topic

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