Training

How to do a Shake Test

Some vaccines are sensitive to freezing. Once they have frozen, they should not be used. Fortunately, there is a way to tell if a freeze sensitive vaccine has been damaged by exposure to temperatures below zero degrees Celsius: the shake test.

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Hausa
  • Swahili

Publication year

2000

Type

Training

Categories

  • Supply chain & logistics

Organisations

  • Immunization Academy (IA)

Tags

  • Vaccine management

By EVM criterion

  • E8 Vaccine management

Added by: Géraldine Nemrod

Added on: 2025-03-13 15:21:26

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