“How can I help staff monitor the cold chain at delivery and during in-store replenishment?”

DefrostWatch™
After a temperature breach, your frozen food may look fine, but could have been defrosted and then refrozen, potentially posing a serious risk to your customers. To comply with HACCP, you need to know how long your valuable products have spent out of a freezing temperature. Let DefrostWatch™ help you know when to throw away food products and alert you to temperature breaches in freezers.

DefrostWatch™ sits in the freezer and tells you whether its critical temperature has been exceeded and, more importantly, for how long.
DefrostWatch™ is ideal if you live in an area prone to power interruptions, hurricanes or tornados. It’s the easiest and most inexpensive way to ensure you are selling and serving the safest food.

How does it work?
DefrostWatch™ is an irreversible temperature indicator. Activate it by squeezing the blister on top of the label and you’ll see the viewing window change colour from white to blue. As long as the freezer stays at or under the safe temperature, the indicator does not move. If there is a temperature breach, the colour moves across the scale, showing how long it has been above the critical temperature
and allowing you to decide on appropriate action.

Fridgesafe™
Product quality can often be compromised by exposure to elevated temperatures during transit or storage - or even when re-stocking the in store chillers. To comply with HACCP, you need to know how long your valuable products have spent out of the fridge.

In a retail environment, taking product from walk in fridges to be stocked in refrigerated displays, is very difficult to manage. As a result, a potentially vast amount of good product is being thrown out needlessly, and food which should have been thrown is going through the system, leading to returns, customer complaints - or even worse.The question is, how long has the food been out of the fridge, and what has been the effect on the quality and shelf-life?

Fridgesafe™ can easily help solve this, by communicating to staff when it is absolutely necessary to get products back in the chiller, and allowing you to have full audit control to ensure compliance with inspectors.

Fridgesafe™ communicates that one or more temperature excursions have occurred and records the total amount of time your product has spent out of the fridge.

DefrostWatch™ and Fridgesafe™ irreversible temperature indicators are accurate, cost-effective and easy to use.
They are supplied in an adhesive label format that is ideal for direct application to all kind of product packaging.

Interested in making Timestrip work in your cold chain?
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