1. What are Perishable Items?
Perishable items are products that are susceptible to spoilage, quality degradation, or decay due to environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and microbial activity at room temperature. Common perishable items include:
- Fresh Food: Fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, dairy products, eggs
- Pharmaceuticals: Certain drugs and biological products that require cold storage
- Flowers and Plants: Fresh flowers, plants
- Chemicals: Certain chemical reagents sensitive to temperature and humidity
2. How to Pack Perishable Items
Proper packaging of perishable items is crucial to prevent exposure to unfavorable temperature, humidity, and microbial environments. Common packaging methods include:
- Vacuum Packaging: Reduces oxygen levels by removing air from the package, delaying microbial growth.
- Gas Packaging: Modifies the gas composition within the package (e.g., increasing carbon dioxide, reducing oxygen) to extend freshness.
- Refrigerated Packaging: Uses coolers, foam boxes, and frozen gel packs to maintain a low-temperature environment.
- Moisture-Proof Packaging: Employs moisture-proof bags and desiccants to prevent moisture from entering the package.
- Antimicrobial Packaging: Utilizes antibacterial materials or additives to inhibit microbial growth.
3. How to Control the Temperature of Perishable Items
Temperature control is essential for preserving perishable items. Common methods include:
- Refrigeration Equipment: Use of refrigerators and freezers to maintain a constant low temperature.
- Cold Chain Transportation: Utilization of refrigerated vehicles and containers to ensure low temperatures throughout transportation.
- Temperature Monitoring: Implementation of temperature recorders, labels, and sensors to monitor temperature changes in real time.
- Ice Packs and Dry Ice: Use of ice packs or dry ice for short-distance transportation to maintain cold temperatures.
- Temperature-Controlled Packaging: Employing materials with excellent insulation properties, such as foam boxes and insulated bags.
4. What Huizhou Can Do for You
Shanghai Huizhou Industrial Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise in the cold chain industry, established on April 19, 2011, with a registered capital of 30 million yuan. The company is dedicated to providing professional cold chain temperature control packaging solutions for both fresh food and pharmaceutical cold chain customers. Huizhou ensures that temperature-sensitive items remain in a safe, healthy, fresh, and suitable temperature environment throughout cold chain transportation and distribution.
Products and Services:
- Personalized Packaging Design: Customized packaging solutions based on the characteristics of the items.
- High-Quality Packaging Materials: A variety of high-quality materials, such as ice packs, coolers, desiccants, etc.
- Professional Technical Support: Comprehensive support from packaging to storage, provided by a professional R&D team.
- Nationwide Factory Layout: Multiple factories across the country for efficient delivery to nearby cities.
- Wide Customer Base: Serving over 3,000 cooperative customers.
5. Case Studies of Huizhou
Case 1: Long-Distance Transportation of Fresh Fruit
- Customer: A large fruit supplier
- Requirement: Transport fresh fruit from the south to the north, ensuring its freshness.
- Solution: Used high-performance coolers and ice packs to maintain low temperatures and preserve freshness.
- Result: The fruit arrived fresh at its destination, and the customer was highly satisfied.
Case 2: Refrigerated Transportation of Drugs
- Customer: A pharmaceutical company
- Requirement: Transport refrigerated drugs from warehouses to major hospitals, ensuring drug quality.
- Solution: Used medical circulation coolers with custom mold boxes and phase change liquid, maintaining specific temperature ranges. Temperature recorders were used for real-time monitoring during transportation.
- Result: The drugs arrived safely at major hospitals with excellent temperature control, earning high praise from the customer.
Available Packaging Consumables: Ice packs, foam boxes, insulated bags, circulation coolers, ice boxes, aluminum foil insulated bags, VIP panels.
