Medical and laboratory refrigeration

Pharmacy, vaccine and laboratory refrigeration works to tighter tolerances and stricter recordkeeping than food service. A unit that drifts two degrees for six hours may have compromised inventory worth far more than the equipment, and the excursion has to be documented either way.

We service pharmacy and vaccine refrigerators, laboratory refrigerators and freezers, blood bank and specimen storage, and the alarm and monitoring systems attached to them. Calibration verification against a traceable reference is part of every visit.

The Murray and Salt Lake City medical corridors have a high density of this equipment, and much of it is serviced by companies whose main business is food service refrigeration. The physics is identical. The tolerances and the paperwork are considerably tighter.

What we hear most from medical & lab refrigeration

• Temperature excursions requiring documented investigation
• Calibration against traceable references
• Alarm and continuous monitoring system integration
• Backup and redundancy planning for high-value inventory
• Response urgency when inventory value far exceeds equipment value