Pharmaceutical Warehouse cooling

The majority of pharmaceutical products fall into a category which states ‘do not store above 25°C’.

Pharmaceutical
Wholesalers are licensed by the MHRA – the Medicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency

The MHRA audit and license
warehouses who must demonstrate compliance. Temperature compliance is set by
two criteria:

  • Mean Kinetic Temperature over a 7 day period
    must not exceed 25°C (Mean Kinetic temperature is a logarithmic
    calculation which provides a weighted average using the Arrhenius equation)
  • Absolute maximum temperature shall never
    exceed 30°C

Most
pharmaceutical warehouses use ventilation to keep products cool as
refrigeration is prohibitively expensive but ventilation cannot maintain
compliance with MHRA criteria during prolonged periods of high temperature

Evaporative cooling can, if
correctly specified, ensure full compliance at a fraction of the cost of air
conditioning.

Free quotations available 

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