Brazil. The arrival of summer in many of the countries of Latin America can be synonymous with holidays and fun, but on the other hand, when it comes to food, it is necessary to redouble the care. It is up to the trader to ensure that both the transport and storage of food during the warmest time of the year receive greater attention, ensuring the quality of what is offered to the consumer.
Therefore, the Full Gauge Controls team listed some important points and tools, such as remote management systems, that can help in this process.
There are foods that if handled and stored without proper attention or with the wrong temperature, can bring serious health risks. "During logistics, for example, you have to be attentive to various sources of heat, such as the mass of hot air inside the transport compartments, the circulation of air and even the high temperature outside," says the head of the Office of Full Gauge Controls in the United States, Lucas Marchi. For him, some points that deserve caution are to control the previous cooling of the food or even in the place of transport itself, to avoid exposure to heat for excessive time - during the loading or unloading process - and even the inadequate maintenance of the temperature on the way. "Each type of food withstands a different maximum temperature, and not respecting these parameters can cause the formation and growth of different types of toxins, harmful to health," he says.
According to Brazilian law, means of transport and warehouses for perishable products must be equipped with instruments for frequent temperature recording and control. To help in this part of the process there are monitoring softwares, great allies in the monitoring of information at a distance.
The Sitrad, for example, was fully developed by the Full Gauge Controls team. The system, which communicates with the brand's drivers, can be downloaded free of charge (www.sitrad.com.br) and has no cost of use. To access the information you only need a device (tablet, computer or cell phone) connected to the Internet. In addition to generating custom reports and storing the data, the tool warns (through alarms sent by sms or email) when there is any change in the specified patterns. "The ease of receiving an alert whenever a parameter is outside what was established allows the client to correct the problem almost in real time, often even remotely, avoiding degradation and loss of the load in question," says Marchi.
In this way, remote administration gives greater freedom and peace of mind for the merchant, because even being distant, he knows that he will be informed whenever there is a problem. Facilities like this, important all year round, gain even more relevance in a period marked by increases in stock, in addition to holidays and, of course, high temperatures. All this with the aim of guaranteeing the excellence of the products that reach the consumer's table.
