Closing the Cold Chain

A Seamless Journey from Transport to Storage

With 40 years of experience innovating redundant bio transport, Tobin Scientific has applied its technologies and best practices to the storage, monitoring, and documentation in its biorepository facility. We offer the utmost in redundant layers of protection, ensuring the integrity of samples in our custody as we expand on our growing reputation as the premiere choice in cold chain storage.

At Tobin Scientific our focus is on redundant operation and notification. The backup generator for the bio is also backed up by a second redundant generator and we have a contract for a portable Kohler generator to be available if needed. To top that off, we also own dual generator trailers that could be used in emergency as well. This gives us five power options to keep our biorepository up and running (A/C, Generator 1, Generator 2, Emergency Generator, Tractor Trailers).

Our alarm notifications have redundant paths out of our building in Beverly, Mass. We have Internet based email notifications as well as cellular SMS notifications. To be sure our personal are notified when an alarm takes place, these outputs are sent to our 24-hour answering service who will call our employees on the phone to wake them during the night. To back all that up, our monitoring system’s alarm output is also connected to our building alarm system, so we are also called by them when an alarm happens.

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Biorepository
Specifications

Environmental Monitoring System

IQ / OQ Validated
cGMP / cGLP Compliant
Wireless System
NIST traceable calibrations
Redundant paths of Alarm notification to ensure contact of an event
Can be accessed remotely, even from a Smart Phone

Electrical System

110 volt and 220-volt service readily available.
Backed up by dual generators with automatic transfer for zero downtime.
Each generator can supply enough amperage to run the Biorepository on its own, including the A/C system and supporting computers.

Generators

Provide Redundant Power
Instantly switches between utility power and the 2 redundant generators

Automatic Transfer Switch

Automatically identifies a utility power failure and switches to the next generator
Eliminates potential for human error
Second Automatic Transfer Switch controls the dual generators for a seamless transfer of power between each

HVAC Control System

Maintains optimum operating temperature for freezers and ambient products, year-round.
Power is backed up by dual generators.
Emergency air exhaust in event of excessive heat build-up.

Dock

Dedicated dock used only by the Biorepository

LN2 freezers

LN2 tanks are supplied for back up
Oxygen sensors keep personnel safe
Electrical backup

Back-up Fridge / Freezer units

Freezer units available inside the Biorepository to provide back up for each type of freezer in the Biorepository.
Back-up units are maintained at a temperature in case of emergency transfer of samples
Refrigerators / freezers include, -20c Freezers,
-80c Freezers, +4c Refrigerator

Emergency Backup Team

Personnel are available 24/7 to respond quickly to any problems that may occur
Each employee is trained in proper emergency procedures

Facility Features

Temperature controlled
Enclosed area with secured access.
Video monitored for immediate and archival documentation
Onsite bio repository manager

Our success is built on a chain of custody, four-stage redundant power and a three-way notifications system.

Utility power is backed up by a redundant generator, which is, in turn, backed up with a second redundant generator, ensuring that power is never interrupted. Combined with our onsite, patent-pending redundant generator trailers, we are the only repository to offer four sources of electricity to support any emergency or contingency plan.

Our monitoring and notification system is built with redundant paths out of our facility, with communications via email, phone and SMS

Our fleet of mobile repository redundant generator trailers, with patent-pending technologies, make us the only provider who can seamlessly move running chambers, full of product, over long or short distances, from your lab to our biorepository, while monitoring and documenting temperature graphs for auditing and compliance. While other services are required to transfer to dry ice, our system eliminates all transfer of risk, as biological substances never leave a temp controlled and monitored freezer. It also ensures no commingling of samples.

With four decades of experience in innovating the way life science moves, we offer the unparalleled expertise, education and guidance required to protect the life’s work of preeminent researchers, and to ensure the investments in the future made by leading life science research and pharmaceutical organizations.