New temperature indicator from Cryolog

Cryolog has announced the launch of BreakPoint, a threshold-crossing indicator.  

Certain vaccines, blood, and diagnosis kits must not be frozen. How can these products, which could be rendered ineffective or dangerous, be detected? Cryolog now renders this information accessible in an immediately readable manner. Taking the form of a self-adhesive label, BreakPoint changes color irreversibly (from white to red) if a product has been frozen.

Up until now, these temperature indicators were reserved for large-scale conditioning (containers, palettes, parcels), but because of their cost and their size, it had never been possible to include them on a more detailed level of conditioning: individual doses or dispensing units.

BreakPoint comes in the form of rolls of self-adhesive labels. This form and the unit price mean that for the first time they can be used on individual units, in order to reveal any cases of exposure to negative temperatures.

Renaud Vaillant, CEO of Cryolog, said: ‘BreakPoint is the fruit of intensive R&D efforts stimulated by the express requirements of our health clients and prospects. This new label integrates perfectly into our range of solutions for the dynamic monitoring of temperature and product quality and confirms the truly innovative position of Cryolog in the market for traceability and smart labels.’

Currently in the process of being industrialized, the first application of the BreakPoint label will be rolled out in the fourth quarter of 2007, in the health sector.

The BreakPoint technology can be integrated into all types of packaging and placed on any support using a simple labeling gun.