Monday, September 5, 2016

#15 - A temperature violation (Protect from freeze or beyond temperature violation... UMIT, New York)

Dear all,

In order to give a charge to the "scavenger hunt", I would like to do the first posting to set an example. In general, it should be you, who should be looking for the situations in the given list and post your photographs with short stories behind them, like the one below.

Here we go...

It was two years ago in January that the coldest air in almost 20 years was sweeping over the central U.S. toward the East Coast, threatening to topple temperature records, ignite energy demand and damage Great Plains winter wheat. That week, I was in New York. It was freezing cold - though I knew it was going to be cold, my sweater and heavy coat did not help much since there was also terrible wind all the time!..

On the 7th of January, walking in the 40E street, a pallet sitting on the pavement attracted my attention with a sign on it "Protect from freeze". I was in a rush for an appointment and just continued walking. In the afternoon, going back to my hotel from the same street, I was shocked to see the same pallet at the same spot, still waiting. This time, I made a photo, then took a screen shot of my iPhone showing the temperature.


Minus 16 deg C!.. I had no idea since when the pallet was left on the pavement, unattended like this, but was sure, whatever it contained, was sure frozen. This is what I call "temperature violation"...

Cheers UMIT

2 comments:

  1. Greetings UMIT,

    Great post and educative...

    I have found very interested article for colleagues to read and perhaps to make any suggestions..,
    https://www.lincoln.ne.gov/city/health/environ/Food/pdf/FoodTempViolations.pdf

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    1. Dear Philip, thank you for the link. However, this refers to food temperature chain (and specially focusing on reheating processed foods) that is quite a different subject matter compared to pharmaceutical cold chain management and I would suggest that we focus on the pharma side not to expand our attention. Cheers UMIT

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