A fail-safe system that is designed to protect refrigerated medication in warehouses has been introduced into the UK against the background of reports that the health service has had to dump more than 800 tons of unfit medication worth around £202m. From ISO 9001 – 2001 accredited Next Systems, one of the UK’s leading edge refrigeration monitoring companies, Tutela automatically monitors refrigerated ingredients and stock to ensure conditions are ideal. Checks are made every fifteen minutes or more frequently if specified.
The system, which meets all current and anticipated legal requirements for record keeping, can support a wide range of sensing options like temperature probes, including ultra low temperature, digital status and alarm contacts, humidity sensors, pressure transducers, energy metering, liquid levels and gas sensing.
Tutela was developed with the wholesale sector of the pharmaceutical industry in mind and is designed to both protect and monitor temperature sensitive medicines.
Although a British development, the system was initially test marketed in America where the company has a growing order book. Customers include the American Red Cross.
Tutela is unique in the UK in that its alarm call centre is fully manned round the clock. It runs on either GPRS or Ethernet connections which don’t interfere with other on-site applications.
Full system validation uses the ISO9001 quality framework to deliver a thirty year electronic record backup to MHRA standards, including user activity logs and alarm incident management records.
Tutela
Sally Towle
Tel: 01252 406398
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