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i am currently in the process of upgrading to a new location and i am going to be getting a new fridge for vaccine storage.
does anyone have any recomendations?

right now i am using two mini fridges without a freezer and one mini freezer, but i would like to consolidate as well as up my capacity. mainly to store an entire season of flu but also for a growing practice

Electrolux Stainless Steel , Double Door, Icemaker and water in door. Has duel separate controls and compressors for each side, so failure on one side does not affect the other. (Never has failed). Also controls are digital interior temps not just set points, No vague numbers 1-6 for coldness, actual temps in F or C. Have had it for 12 years w/o problems. Not as expensive as you might think, about $2000.

Do you have room for full fridge - bought one from local appliance store with upper freezer, lower fridge - $400.00.

Whatever you choose, make sure the door has a way of being VERY securely latched. We had a door come ajar, lost many $$$ in vaccines.

we do have room for a full fridge and thats what I'm looking for.

sorry, i should have wrote that in the original post.

and i'm going to check out that electrolux

We secure the door of the Electrolux w/ a Bicycle U-bar lock at night. This works great in our office. We have also had our alarm company drill thru back of each compartment and have a sealed thermistor probe in glycerin vial on a shelf in both the refrigerator and freezer compartments that will transmit an alarm to us if either compartment go over or under the hi/low setpoints that we designate. (voids the warranty though)

RE: Remote refrigerator temp alarm.

I have a sensaphone
http://www.sensaphone.com/sensaphone_400.php
to remotely monitor the temperatures of my med refrigerators. Less than $400. No monthly monitoring fee (shares the line with the fax). Takes an hour or two to set up, but then can forget it. It calls up to 4 phone numbers when temps go out of range. Very custimizable. Like if the power goes out, I don't care to know about it unless out for over an hour, then the system is programmed to call me. Likewise on out of limit temps. It has called me on more than one occasion for refrig door being ajar.

we use temperature guard
it can use temerature sensors or door sensors