Ensuring Safe, On-Time Deliveries for Animal Biopharma

Transporting advanced therapeutics for the animal health industry is just as time- and temperature-sensitive as human therapeutics, yet it is not often managed with the same level of care. This results in biologics and vaccines running into preventable risk during transit.

Whether you’re supporting a clinical trial, delivering commercial supply, or responding to a health emergency, ensuring the quality, compliance, and visibility of every shipment is crucial. Gaps in temperature control, regulatory documentation, and continuous monitoring can result in more than product loss, they can derail studies, delay treatments, and impact animal health outcomes. A truly protective, compliant shipping approach will proactively mitigate avoidable risk.

The Unique Demands of Animal Biopharma Logistics

Animal health logistics is far more complex than simply shipping a box. Today’s biologics and vaccines, whether intended for livestock or companion animals, are highly sensitive to environmental conditions and timing. Most require tight temperature ranges, like cryogenic conditions that remain below -150°C or ultra cold (dry ice) conditions that stay between -60° and -80°C, and must arrive on time, intact, and compliant with regulatory expectations.

Timelines are often urgent, with clinical dosing windows leaving little room for delay and emergency health events like disease outbreaks demanding immediate response. Even routine, herd-wide immunizations can involve large volumes and limited windows for administration. In all of these situations, a single delivery failure can mean wasted product, regulatory noncompliance, or lost health outcomes and reputational risk.

Why Continuous Tracking Matters

Many animal biopharma organizations operate with limited shipment visibility. They may know when a package left the facility and when it arrived, but not what happened in between. This is where risk hides.

Continuous monitoring changes the game. By monitoring location, temperature, and condition metrics throughout transit, you can detect and respond to temperature excursions quickly, intervene early if a route is delayed or compromised, maintain full chain of custody and chain of condition records, and capture automated documentation to support compliance and future audits.

If you’re not capturing these data points, you may be flying blind. Temperature excursions or misroutes may be happening without your knowledge, eroding product viability and adding hidden cost to your operations.

How much might unseen losses be costing you? In wasted doses, rescheduled field deployments, or delayed trials? Without visibility, you don’t know… and that’s the risk.

Regulatory Expectations are Rising 

The animal health industry is moving fast, and so are the demands around compliance. Veterinary biologics and vaccines are under increasing regulatory scrutiny, especially as new modalities enter the market.  

Organizations like the FDA, USDA, and international regulators now expect proper documentation, validated shipping systems, and evidence of controlled, compliant transit. For animal biopharma organizations, logistics is quickly pivoting from an operational function to a core part of compliance strategy.  

As scrutiny grows, the stakes are higher. It’s no longer sufficient to simply hope your materials arrive safely, you need to be able to prove that they did – with transport validation, chain of custody evidence, and audit-ready reporting.  

What Specialized Logistics Should Look Like 

So what, exactly, does a purpose-built logistics solution for animal biopharma look like? It starts with systems that are engineered to protect temperature-sensitive, time-critical shipments.  

Cryoport Systems is the industry leader in supporting the temperature-controlled supply chain, bringing the same robust and best-in-class quality and shipping solutions from the highly-regulated human cell and gene therapy market to animal biopharmaceuticals. Our wholly-owned fleet of custom-engineered shipping solutions makes it easy for you to find the best solution for your therapeutic’s temperature band. Every shipping system is equipped with our continuous monitoring technology that tracks location, temperature, and other condition metrics from pickup to destination, with a team of logistics experts monitoring every shipment 24/7/365 and responding should anything happen during transit. Our end-to-end Chain of Compliance® offers unparalleled traceabilty and audit-ready record keeping on every shipment, with proprietary and robust quality standards that ensure every shipping system is fully decontaminated using our Veri-Clean® process and fully validated and requalified before every use.  

Animal health isn’t one-size-fits-all, and your logistics strategy shouldn’t be either. Whether you’re delivering regenerative medicines, mRNA-based vaccines, or monoclonal antibodies, your materials deserve a system built to protect them at every step. At Cryoport Systems, our Animal Health solutions are designed to do just that.  

Don’t Let Your Supply Chain be the Weak Link

If you’re not tracking shipments continuously , if you’re not measuring temperature excursions, or if your documentation isn’t audit-ready, you may be exposing your product to risk and not even know it.

The delivery of animal biologics and vaccines is no longer a background task that can be managed by polystyrene boxes and ice packs. This is a critical path function that directly impacts therapeutic success, regulatory standing, and organizational reputation.

Modern therapies and global markets demand more. So should your logistics strategy.

Let’s protect what matters and strengthen your animal biopharma supply chain before risk becomes reality.