Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit: Key Resources [2026/07]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.). National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Immunization Services Division
• Description:
  Proper vaccine storage and handling practices are essential for protecting patients by ensuring product efficacy and quality, preventing unnecessary revaccination, minimizing vaccine wastage, and ensuring a viable vaccine supply. Ultimately, adhering to vaccine storage and handling guidelines helps improve patients' health by preventing disease.
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit provides valuable information, guidance, and resources to help providers store and handle vaccines properly. This information also applies to RSV monoclonal antibody products. The toolkit brings together content from manufacturer information, findings from scientific studies, General Best Practices for Immunization, and Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (the "Pink Book").
  
  This PDF provides a set of tools to help healthcare professionals properly store and handle vaccines, manage temperature excursions, and develop standard operating procedures (SOPs). Purpose-Built Vaccine Storage Units Reference Sheet.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Drug Storage Equipment And Supplies Health Personnel Immunizations Refrigeration Vaccination Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Vaccines
• Keywords:
  Cold Chain Inventory Management Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Temperature Excursion Temperature Monitoring Vaccine Handling Vaccine Preparation Vaccine Storage Vaccine Transport
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program
• Genre:
  Toolkit
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
• Division:
  ISD - Immunization Services Division
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  12 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Resources
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9ea2d7444d25277912394c88bdaed3cc560506556ca1d33faff378443393301429d46dbc59195a2216c4a9e7a0e081f9ede9277ef98b412023c7a77ba1ec6a75
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/258327/cdc_258327_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.07 MB ]