Each day, more and more meals are
consumed outside the home, necessitating the movement of millions of cases of
produce and other food consumables to be delivered to restaurants, hospitals,
and college campuses nationwide. Moving these highly perishable goods safely
from the farm to your dinner plate requires a highly orchestrated network of
transportation providers to move goods safely and prevent spoil or
contaimination by pest or disease. Temperature controlled containers help food
shippers maintain the best possible enviroment to keep food safe during storage
and shipment.
Every company that moves food items has
in place a complex system for ensuring consumer protection as per regulations
set forth by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). These agencies issue ‘best practices’ guidelines every
year for everything from sanitation to packing to warehousing. All of these
best practices in some way refer to a shippers ability to maintain a ‘cold’
supply chain.
As you know from storing milk, cheese,
eggs, meat and vegetables in your refrigerator, food items can be preserved in
cold environments. Using refrigerated docks and temperature and humidity
regulated containers, distribution companies are able to maintain a strict
temperature and humidity profile to slow down the deterioration of food goods,
create an inhospitable environment for bacteria, mold and fungi, and maintain
inventory at its most pristine levels. Using temperature and humidity regulated
trailers and containers provides a temperature controlled mobile storage
solution to preserve goods no matter their destination.
Companies face the potentially
crippling cost of legal settlements should someone become ill because food
products were contaminated during shipment. However maintaining a pristine
supply chain from farm to fork is a definite challenge. Climate controlled
containers are simply the best way for food distributors and retailers to
maintain the ‘cold’ chain and minimize risk of loss due to spoil, infestation
or contamination.
Click here for more information on how climate regulated containers can help you keep your perishable goods safe during shipment or storage.
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