Guidelines for disposal of unusable vaccines It has been frequently observed that a large quantities of vaccines which have become unusable due to various reasons (VVM beyond discard point, freeze sensitive vaccines in frozen condition or expired vaccines) are being stored in cold chain at various stores. This storage is unnecessarily occupying large storage cold chain space, which results in shortage of cold chain space for other usable vaccines. Further, the unusable vaccine in the cold chain point confused with those containing usable potent vaccines with chances of inadvertent issue of the discardable vaccines which may result in AEFI events.
Hence, Whenever vaccines become unusable, it is not required to be stored in the cold chain space and you are advised as under: 1. As soon as a vaccine becomes unusable,mark the vaccine/box as” discarded vaccine” with the signature of the…
