Temperature controlled Transit Packaging The world-wide, research-based pharmaceutical company, Schering-Plough, has a global animal health business that sends its products all over the world. Packaging Technologist, Maria Eldridge- Brown, is responsible for ensuring that these vaccines can be safely sent all over the world and to do this she has developed an EPS pack. "The perception in our market is that EPS is the best material for the job. In fact our customers expect vaccines to be packed in EPS because of its insulating properties," explains Maria Eldridge- Brown. "I worked with LINPAC Moulded Foams to design a box that would hold the plastic phials safely in place and with the help of a gel pack would maintain the stable temperature needed for the vaccine." "The vaccines must be kept at a stable temperature within 2°C and 8°C and this had to be achieved on local journeys and trips to New Zealand which can last up to 36 hours." The solution is a well-designed box that can be posted without any further packaging to anywhere in the world. The combination of the EPS, and the gel pack, ensures the vaccines will be kept within the correct temperature parameters.
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Schering-Plough produces Paracox®, the world's premier vaccine that protects chickens from coccidious, a highly infectious parasitic infection that affects poultry worldwide and Paracox® 5, an 'all-natural' product that is suitable for free-range and organically-raised chickens.
