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Is your thermal packaging really green?
Green thermal packaging must have a minimal carbon footprint, conserve water and energy and not persist in the environment after disposal. Designers of green, or sustainable, products must have a complete understanding of the materials that comprise them.
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Recycling is no longer the answer to cleaning up our world
Only 34% of American households recycle, and many of those don't recycle all that they could. It's sobering to realize that 91% of plastics have never been recycled, and our ability to recycle paper is shrinking dramatically. There's an obvious need to search for...
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Safely Mail Fresh Pet Food and Medicine
Fresh pet food is perishable and requires strict temperature control to ensure the safety of our fur babies Every year, $75 billion is spent on pet food and medication. Of that staggering total, nearly half is of the organic or health-conscious variety. Out of that,...
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The High Canadian Arctic – The World’s Most Challenging Cold Chain
Melissa in Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada at 3:00 PM in -68°F weather We took the farm to fork cold chain distribution process to a whole new level when we went to Watsonville, CA to visit a strawberry farm to analyze and improve the harvest and precooling process. As...
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Understanding the Most Common Problems in Pharmaceutical Mail Order Shipments
Mail order pharmaceutical sales are the largest growing segment in the drug retail industry, with over 240 million prescriptions per year [1]. In 2010, approximately $182 billion dollars worth of pharmaceuticals required the maintenance of a specific...
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Understanding the Crucial Variables When Evaluating a Pre-Qualified vs. Customized Shipping Solution for Temperature Sensitive Products
By simply understanding a few key variables that go into the design testing and real life practices of temperature sensitive shipping containers, it is possible to determine if a pre-qualified shipper or a customized solution would be best based on risk, cost, and...
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Thermal Protection for Control-Room-Temperature Products
In our article published in “BioPharm International” we discuss the challenges facing shipments of Control Room Temperature (CRT) pharmaceutical products. Through a better understanding of heat-transfer principles, the effects of environmental temperatures, and the...
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Common Misconceptions of New Trends & Technologies
As pharmaceutical and biological logistics spending booms towards an estimated $86 billion dollar industry by 2018, regulatory agencies have begun to place more scrutiny on the adherence of temperature requirements during transportation (1). The sector is racing to...
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Academic Cold Chain Forum
The fourth annual Academic Cold Chain Forum kicked off April 11-12, 2012, at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. The forum invited sixty participants from cold chain related fields such as regulatory agencies, academia, technology providers,...
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