Article By Ted Scholl

Don’t let a broken refrigeration unit send chills down to your wallet.

Foodservice facilities hold a vast responsibility in food safety handling and many foodborne illnesses can be launched by poor safe food handling. The best safety is preventative safety and refrigeration monitoring is the first step in a proper good safety plan.

Imagine this for a moment; take a handful of hundred-dollar bills. Crumble them up one at a time and shoot each hundred-dollar bill into a flaming waste basket. Painful! Huh? Managing a business of any size is hard enough now a days and restaurant margins have decreased over the past ten years from 15-20% to roughly 4-7%. How valuable would it be for you to get instant updates on crucial refrigeration units with high value products or assets? Would saving $100, $200, $500 or even a couple thousand dollars be beneficial to you and your business?

Your commercial refrigeration storage unit is your life line to keeping your precious commodities fresh and safe.  If it were to go down, it may end up costing you thousands of dollars of lost revenue not only from lost product, but also the possibility of bad press from the potential of getting your customers sick or even worse could result in legal actions from neglecting safe food handling procedures. This would be catastrophic to almost any business. 

CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. 

There is an easy solution that you may not have yet considered.

Temperature monitoring systems capture temperature data via a sensor such as a thermocouple probe. Thermocouples are the most common temperature sensors and adding these monitors are a simple, easy and cost-effective solution. They can easily be added to existing intrusion and access control systems for commercial refrigeration and freezers. Should temperature readings drop below a desired level, notification will be sent to your mobile device, warning you that there is an issue.  This will provide time critical data to make money saving repairs and maintain compliancy records for local or federal inspection agencies. Helping meet compliance for the CDC, FDA, HACCP, WHO, GxP, AABB, Joint Commission for laboratories, restaurants, bulk refrigeration storage for transportation hubs and much more.

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