Getting “Hot” Pharmaceuticals Where They Need to Go
Melinda
Pharmaceutical CommerceArticle Summary
Shipping pharmaceuticals is not the easiest of international trade activities. The need for cold-chain management of temperature-sensitive materials makes the process harder. And the need for meeting newly standardized rules for “biohazard” materials, such as vaccines, tissue samples, clinical materials and some blood products, can be the perfect storm of shipping difficulty. Layered over all of this is the concern with bioterrorism.
