Pharma industry risks product integrity and profits with wrong bookings and squeezing suppliers

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Logistics companies have warned the pharmaceutical industry it risks major losses by failing to send temperature-sensitive medicines by the correct service.

While airlines have invested heavily in the past few years on expedited and temperature-controlled services, pharma companies continue to try to cut costs by shipping their products as general air cargo.

“There is a common perception among pharmaceutical manufacturers that they can still stick on a temperature label, or add an instruction to the air waybill and presume it will be ...