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March 14, 2023
Life Sciences
Vaccine Accessibility Challenges in Remote Regions
The biggest challenge with remote regions is the availability of necessary resources. Proper cold-chain equipment is a must in order to maintain the integrity of vaccines.
March 14, 2023
Food Logistics
What is Cold Chain Package Testing?
Transporting temperature sensitive products is a tricky business and it can mean the difference between life and death when it comes to food or medicine. It’s understanding this responsibility to end-consumers that makes testing every part of the cold chain necessary. No transporter can simply start moving temperature sensitive products without being sure that they have the correct people, processes, and technology in place to do it. In this article, we’ll explore what cold chain package testing is, how it’s done, and why it’s important.
March 14, 2023
Food Logistics
How Temperature Monitoring Systems Optimize Cold Chain Logistics
As transporters, you need to have some control over the management of your cold chain. From route planning to selecting the right people, packaging, and technology, you need to be able to track and monitor your products throughout the journey. Ultimately, the successful management of your cold chain hinges on your monitoring systems, so let’s find out more about how these systems work.
March 14, 2023
Food Logistics
How to Ship Temperature Sensitive Items
Knowing how to ship temperature sensitive items can still be very difficult even though we now have far more advanced technology and systems to help us. Each item has different requirements and you cannot account for every hurdle that can come your way no matter how much planning you put in. In this article, we’ll explore how you an ship temperature sensitive items using all the advantages of the 21st century.
March 14, 2023
Food Logistics
Cold Chain Management Best Practices
Keeping products cold is not as simple as leaving them in the fridge or freezer. In fact, even if you’re working within a cold environment, you cannot guarantee that your product will not spoil or become harmful. That is why managing and controlling temperature is so important; even a few degrees hotter or colder could cause significant damage.
March 14, 2023
Food Logistics
How Food and Beverage Companies Can Overcome Food Transportation Issues
Often, the success or failure of shipping temperature-sensitive products comes down to how well you can control the controllable and adapt to unforeseen circumstances. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the challenges that you can face and what can be done to mitigate these risks.
March 14, 2023
Food Safety
Food Safety vs. Food Quality and The Importance of Knowing The Difference
Food safety centers around physical health while quality is more about the satisfaction of your customers. You can understand why these two terms are important to the food industry and to you especially as a business owner.
March 14, 2023
Food Logistics
Temperature Sensitive Products
Maintaining the proper temperature throughout the supply chain plays a crucial role in food safety as nobody wants a spoiled steak delivered to their door or a compromised vaccine going into their body. These kinds of products are considered temperature sensitive.
March 14, 2022
Food Safety
FSMA - A Proactive Approach to Food Safety
In 2011, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law to require all food industry companies to develop and implement specific food safety guidelines as mapped out by Hazard Analysis Risk-Based Preventative Control (HARPC).
October 10, 2022
Food Safety
Is it Safe to Store Perishables Outdoors in the Winter?
The number one risk in storing food outdoors is the uncontrolled temperatures. Harmful bacteria begin to grow when temperatures rise above 40°F for more than 2 hours.
September 14, 2023
Ask the Expert
ASK THE EXPERT - How Label shortages have affected the Supply Chain
Our supply chain has been struggling and while we may see a glimpse of that when purchasing our favorite ice cream at twice the price as 2 years ago, we often overlook the simplicities such as labels. Without labels, our supply chain is unable to function and without the raw materials, everything will surely come to a complete halt.
July 29, 2022
Food Waste
The Global Impact of Food Loss & Waste
As world hunger challenges continue to rise, our annual global food waste numbers are also increasing. In order to combat these numbers, we must first analyze why we are experiencing the increase, where in the food chain waste occurs, and how we can mitigate the problem.
June 30, 2022
Ask the Expert
ASK THE EXPERT - How to Improve Customer Retention in the Cold Chain
During this rapid shift to consumer delivery and the uptick of home delivery companies, the competition to gain repeat customers is quite the challenge. In order to develop this kind of loyalty, it is crucial to go above and beyond to create the best experience and product possible.
June 13, 2022
Food Safety
Food Safety in the eyes of the Consumer
In December 2021, Sensormatic conducted a Deep Study on Food Safety which gathered information directly from the consumer. They found that 56% of shoppers have experienced food safety issues in the past, with 28% being within the last year.
May 31, 2022
Food Safety
World Food Safety Day 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) joined forces to observe the safety of our food and give guidance as to what you can do to help bring awareness to food safety.
February 3, 2022
Food Logistics
RFID Technology - The right solution for cold chain?
One of the biggest challenges with RFID technology is interference between antennas. When multiple RFID tags are transmitting signals simultaneously, the reader gets “confused” with too much data.
April 29, 2022
Ask the Expert
ASK THE EXPERT - The Effects of Time and Temperature on Pathogen Growth
Time and temperature together are linked factors in the growth of pathogens - the harmful bacteria that can lead to a foodborne illness.
April 11, 2022
Life Sciences
Maintaining Sample Integrity for At-home Biological Sample Collection
At-home biological sample collection has its challenges, just like any other industry. However, improvements are ongoing and with such an accelerated advance into a world of remote services, there is always plenty of room to grow.
March 31, 2022
Life Sciences
ASK THE EXPERT - Telemedicine, At home testing
There are still challenges of home-based collection, such as with patient instructions, transport of the sample to the lab and monitoring of the transport condition throughout its journey to the lab.