WarmMark^® 

Improve Cold Chain Logistics with WarmMark Time/Temperature Indicator

Shipping in summer temperature or to equatorial regions can cause damage to temperature-sensitive products. So can sitting on a customer’s front porch. Heat has the potential to harm all sorts of products from pharmaceuticals and medical tests, to chemicals, foods, wine, and flowers.

For pharmaceuticals, medical samples, and assays, the effects can be disastrous, turning safe therapeutics into harmful substances and making critical medical samples worthless. Even medications normally stored at room temperature – insulin and aspirin, for example – can become less effective when exposed to higher than normal heat.

Sometimes, the stakes for therapeutics and medical tests are even higher. If testing assays or samples are compromised by heat, the ramifications can ripple throughout the world in the form of false positives and false negatives. Eventually, medications and vaccines will be developed and many of those will require temperature-controlled handling.