Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Temperature Controlled Trailers and Food Safety


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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