Maintaining consistent and compliant temperature conditions is critical for ensuring product integrity, safety, and regulatory compliance in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and food storage industries. Performance Validation (PV) offers comprehensive temperature mapping services tailored to your facility’s unique needs. By identifying temperature variations and addressing potential risks, our solutions help you safeguard product quality, meet regulatory requirements, and maintain operational efficiency. Partner with PV to ensure your storage and distribution processes are optimized and fully compliant.
Temperature Mapping Maintains Product Quality & Safety
In pharmaceuticals, certain medications, vaccines, or biologics can lose their efficacy if exposed to temperatures outside specified ranges. Similarly, in the food industry, perishable goods may spoil or become unsafe for consumption if subjected to improper storage conditions. Temperature mapping acts as a proactive measure to detect and rectify these issues before they compromise the quality and safety of the stored items.
Your Experts for Any Situation
Controlled Temperature Storage/Warehouses
Controlled Storage
(Refrigerators/Freezers)
Incubators/Stability Chambers
AS/RS
Ovens
Autoclaves/Steam-in-Place (SIP)
Cryogenic Storage/Controlled Rate Freezers
Lyophilizers
Airports, Shipping & Transportation
Support that Keeps You Compliant
Whether you have reach-in or walk-in controlled temperature units (CTU) or controlled environmental units (CTE), count on our team of experts to ensure you are audit-ready. Our temperature mapping experts have served clients in various FDA-regulated industries throughout the US. Let us complement your in-house team or guide the project from start to finish. Get competitive and cost-effective temperature mapping solutions while ensuring your system is accurate within defined limits. When you need support, count on our flexible and experienced team to get you back on track.
Turn-Key Solutions
- Onsite project completion from strategy
- Document development
- Mapping execution
- Problem resolution
Off-Site Support
Our mapping protocol templates based on industry standards can be utilized along with off-site programming and downloading data loggers.
Delivery Models
Full Service
For clients seeking a hands-off approach, our Full-Service solution provides comprehensive support from start to finish. This option is ideal for organizations with limited internal resources or those who prefer in-person oversight by experienced PV professionals. Key benefits include:
- Comprehensive Management: PV handles the planning, installation, and removal of data loggers while guiding any necessary dynamic activities at your facility.
- Expert Oversight: Our team ensures proper execution of the temperature mapping study, giving you confidence in the results.
- Turnkey Solution: A hassle-free option tailored to meet your specific needs.
Off-Site Support
Our Remote Service delivers expert guidance with cost efficiency, making it an ideal solution for clients seeking flexible and reliable project support. With this option, you benefit from:
- Expert Protocol Development: We work with you to develop and approve a comprehensive temperature mapping protocol.
- Minimal On-Site Effort: Sensors are shipped to your location with clear placement instructions, reducing the need for extensive on-site coordination.
- Professional Analysis and Reporting: Once the study is complete, you return the sensors to us, and our experts handle data analysis and generate a detailed summary report.
Equipment Rental
For organizations with in-house temperature mapping expertise or those looking to supplement their existing systems, our Equipment Rental service provides the tools you need to conduct your own studies with ease. This option offers:
- Access to Reliable Equipment: A flexible inventory of calibrated and validated data loggers ensures you have the tools required for regulatory compliance.
- Tailored Flexibility: Rent the equipment you need for your specific application and project timeline.
- Cost-Effective Solutions: Ideal for clients who prefer a do-it-yourself approach while maintaining high standards.
Verified Equipment
Performance Validation’s equipment is maintained in a calibrated and validated state. We have Vaisala wireless data loggers and Kaye wired systems for temperature and humidity mapping. Our equipment inventory also includes self-contained biological indicators and an incubator for verification of sterility processes. Our internal procedures have been developed to govern the use of equipment to ensure a consistent approach to equipment set-up and data retrieval.
Hassle-Free Equipment Rentals
PV allows you to rent our mapping equipment for the internal execution of Temperature/Humidity Mapping work. Since we hold one of the largest temperature mapping equipment inventories in the country, there is no project too big for our team. The available equipment to rent includes:
Vaisala Data Loggers
- DL 2000 Temp & RH, Ranges -25 to +70C, 10-90% RH
- DL 1000 Temp, Range -25 to +70C
- DL1416 Low Temp, (4 external sensors each), -90 to +50C
- Netbook computers with the validated applications installed for your use
Kaye Equipment
- Kaye AVS units, SIMs, & IRTDs
- LTR-140 Dry Baths, Range –25 to 140C
- Thermocouples – PV can prepare thermocouples to your needs, priced per foot
What are the benefits to renting?
- Software is 21CFR Part 11 compliant and validated
- Weekly rental rates
- Large inventory available
- Annual calibration schedule is maintained
- Equipment SOPs and training support available