The fridge alarm went off at 2am. Nobody heard it. The vaccines are still on the shelf.
Cold-chain failures are the highest-cost compliance incident in pharmacy retail. A single undetected temperature excursion can trigger a Class I recall of a full dispensary batch. Pulse Pharma monitors cold-storage compliance continuously, alerting your team in time to act rather than write off.
The cost of not catching this.
Recall cost
A Class II recall of temperature-compromised vaccines typically costs $15,000–$50,000 in direct write-off, plus 40–80 hours of regulatory documentation. Most of that cost is avoidable if the excursion is caught within 4 hours.
Multi-regulator liability
PPB (Kenya), NAFDAC (Nigeria), FDA Ghana, DHA (UAE), SFDA (Saudi Arabia), CDSCO (India), and SAHPRA (South Africa) each require documented cold-chain breach records. An unrecorded excursion is a compliance violation on inspection — even if product is fine.
Patient safety exposure
Compromised vaccines administered in good faith are a direct patient safety event. Beyond regulatory penalty, the reputational damage to a pharmacy is permanent.
How Pulse catches it.
Continuous temperature monitoring
Pulse Pharma polls cold-storage temperature at configurable intervals. A reading that breaches the upper or lower bound immediately triggers an alert — not a morning report.
Excursion window calculation
Pulse records start, duration, and magnitude of each excursion — the data your pharmacist needs for a 'discard vs. assess' decision under TGA/MHRA Mean Kinetic Temperature (MKT) protocols.
Batch-to-excursion mapping
Pulse Pharma knows which lots were in which cold-storage unit during which window. When an excursion occurs, the affected batch numbers are surfaced immediately — recall scope is exact, not an entire dispensary.
What you'd see.
Is this your problem to solve?
Cold-chain compliance is owned by the pharmacist and audited by compliance.
What it costs.
Cold-chain monitoring is part of the Pulse Pharma vertical pack. Like every paid module, Pulse Pharma starts with a self-serve 30-day trial — no credit card. Talk to sales if you'd like help scoping jurisdiction coverage or a PO.
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