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News Release from: Southern Temperature Sensors | Subject: SL150
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2005
Portable data logger tracks temperature
in transit
With summer temperatures rising across Europe, companies need to ensure that temperature sensitive products are being stored and transported at the correct temperature.
With summer temperatures rising across Europe, companies need to ensure that temperature sensitive products are being stored and transported at the correct temperature, according to Southern Temperature Sensors But even if companies have temperature indication in their chilled storage areas and transport, the need to consider how can they check it, even when personnel are not there
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 23 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Southern Temperature Sensors has recently been awarded a distribution agreement for the German gauge manufacturer Armaturenbau.
With that in mind, the company has introduced the SL150, a portable temperature data logging tag, constructed from food grade polystyrene.
It is designed to be placed with temperature-sensitive products, such as food to record the temperature during processing, transportation and storage.
The SL150, which has a measuring range from -30 degrees C to 100 degrees C, is 10mm thick and powered by a long-life internal battery.
It provides a secure time and date temperature profile and uses a patented wireless induction technique for set up and data download.
That ensures there are no plugs, sockets or crevices of any kind that could harbor bacteria, added the company.
The company cited what it considered to be a typical instance, quoting the case of a containerised cargo of star fruit that was due to arrive direct in Felixstowe, but the consignment went into Rotterdam and was then put in to a smaller vessel.
The consignment arrived at Felixstowe three days later and was transferred to road transport for delivery to its destination.
Star fruit should be carried at 6 degrees C to ensure that it does not ripen too quickly.
The data showed that the cargo had been loaded at 9 degrees C and that during the voyage the ship's refrigeration system had reduced the temperature of the consignment to between 7.5 degrees C and 8 degrees C.
When the container was loaded onto the vehicle and the refrigeration system in the container was switched on the temperature of the consignment reduced to the specified 6 degrees C.
When the consignment was received the temperature was checked and initially the recipient was satisfied because the consignment had arrived within the specified temperature.
Later, when the fruit went on sale it was discovered that there was a problem and a significant loss of product but as a result of interrogating the data logger, a successful insurance claim was made.
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