Pharma Transport: Three Things You Need to Know

1. YOUR TRANSPORT ROUTE IS BEING SCRUTINIZED

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How Medical Device Regulations Vary Globally

For actual Medical Device Manufacturers, the question posed in the title of this article may seem a little silly. Medical Device Manufacturers obviously know who monitors, regulates, and audits them, and who they have to answer to when something goes wrong. For the rest of us though? We are left...

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A Data Logger and Temperature Monitor for Your Server Room

Last month in Dickson Insights, our feature story focused on server room and data center temperature. We outlined an issue that happened at Yale University, and talked through the different temperature and humidity nuances that a data center provides. What we did not touch on, were the benefits of...

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Why Process Validation Shouldn't be Scary

If you’re in the quality assurance business like us, validation is a term you hear every day. "Validation" falls under the umbrella of terms businesses use to discuss the quality of their product, facility, or service. (Similar terms: IQ/ OQ/PQ, SOP’s, Storage, Deviation, Key Operating Procedure,...

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Vaccine Temperature Monitoring Explained: A Dickson Dictionary

Industry terms can have different meanings to the different people inhabiting the industry. When we hear the term ”Concrete Curing” we immediately think of temperature and evaporation. The construction worker on site doing the curing however, he may only think of strength and durability.

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Why The ISPE And Their Guidelines Matter

The ISPE describes itself on its website: www.ispe.org, as ”the world’s largest not-for-profit association serving its Members by leading scientific, technical and regulatory advancement throughout the entire pharmaceutical lifecycle.”

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Growing Up: The Technologies Making Vertical Farming a Reality

Update 11/19: This recent Huffington Post article made a terrific point about the way in which vertical farming may be a solution to two of the largest problems facing urban centers - high unemployment and little access to fresh food.

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4 Important Acronyms In Temperature Mapping and Validation

Some abbreviations and acronyms are like words in our vocabulary: we don’t even think twice when we see them. In the digital world, acronyms like LOL, and NP, are part of our colloquial language. Even in the business world, acronyms like PO are nearly universal to companies, and make up the fabric...

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When To Change Your Monitoring Device, And How To Justify That Decision

New technology is thrown at us every day. When that new technology arrives, we are asked (and sometimes forced) to update to it. If we don’t get the most recent version of the Galaxy S, or if we don’t have a Blu-Ray player, we are left behind our more technologically savvy peers.

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How to Respond to a Temperature Alarm

In the past we've provided articles on what to do when a temperature "disaster strikes." We've also talked about the benefits of a robust temperature and humidity alarming system for products that are perishable: specifically those products that lose potency and become unsafe once exposed to...

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