subject: Concerns When Making Deliveries Of Temperature Sensitive Goods Like Medical Deliveries [print this page] The heat can be extremely dangerous for certain types of goods that you may need to delivery using your local fulfillment company. When you're shipping medical deliveries or pharmaceutical goods, you need to be aware of the problems that the temperature can create for you, and what measures you need to take in order to make sure that your deliveries arrive safely. This is critical with these types of deliveries in particular because of the importance that these deliveries have in the health care of the patients that will eventually be receiving them.
Your first concern is going to have to be the vehicles that the goods are being transported in. Although any courier company which is going to be licensed to move medical goods or pharmaceuticals should have vehicles which are capable of transporting the goods under cooled, refrigerated, or frozen conditions. However, this still does not mean that all the vehicles of this type are created equal. Ask your prospective couriers about the vehicles they are using and the degree of temperature control they have to ensure that you get the best possible service.
The next thing that you need to pay special attention to is what kind of packaging the shipment is prepared in. This is critical, because even if you're shipping with the best courier in the world, there is likely going to be times when the goods are not contained within their temperature controlled vehicles or storage units. If they are in insulated containers which are air tight though, it means that they should be able to hold their cool internal temperatures much longer, even when exposed to warm, outside air.
Making sure that the courier that you are entrusting these deliveries to is competent is also an important part of this type of work. As with any delivery company, you should never be afraid to ask them for references. If you can speak to other medical or pharmaceutical companies that have shipped with a courier successfully in the past that can endorse them fully, then you can be comfortable about entrusting your products to their care.
This is so important because of the nature of these types of deliveries. If they are allowed to become overheated, you could be destroying important pharmaceuticals for treatment, blood for transfusions, tissue samples for testing, or even organs for transplants. Medical shipping is in fact a matter of life and death.
