DALLAS– SpotSee®, a global leader in supply chain temperature indicators that protect life sciences products against damage and ensure supply chain integrity, has launched FreezeSafe™, a new low-cost temperature indicator that displays precise evidence if a product has experienced unacceptably low temperatures.
“Over 68 million vaccines are shipped annually that are freeze sensitive,” said Tony Fonk, CEO, SpotSee. “About 20% of those vaccines are accidentally frozen during transport or in storage. Our new FreezeSafe indicator is a cost-effective tool to ensure that patients receive effective vaccines that have not been damaged due to freezing.”
Knowing a product’s temperature is being maintained from beginning to end is essential to the cold chain, making FreezeSafe a valuable addition to SpotSee’s temperature product line. FreezeSafe was designed specifically to monitor for lower-than-acceptable temperatures. Pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive items have specific temperature ranges that, when breached, can cause safety and efficacy to diminish. Leveraging color-changing technology, the indicator provides a visual indication of a temperature deviation in a flexible label format. When the temperature falls below the indicator threshold, the indicator turns from clear to magenta.
Requiring only a quick visual check, FreezeSafe is easy to read and ready to use. In addition, the indicator comes in two different temperature thresholds, 0°C and 2°C. The easy-to-implement device can be added to every shipment or mounted directly onto a product.
