| The refrigerator is viewed as a necessity in our | | | | up and bring it home. While it may be a regular task |
| homes, but we overlook its importance, and don't | | | | to throw the ground beef or milk from the grocery |
| even think of what we would do without one. | | | | bag into the refrigerator, the process of getting it to |
| Imagine how cavemen preserved food. They dug | | | | the store is unfamiliar to most of us. There is often |
| holes, harvested ice and packed whatever food they | | | | cross-country or worldwide transportation involved in |
| caught down in the ice to maintain its temperature | | | | getting food to the store where you purchase it. |
| and freshness. This process may sound similar to | | | | During that transport time, the food needs to remain |
| when we pack a cooler for a day on the beach, | | | | at a safe temperature. |
| except we are given the convenience of buying the | | | | Refrigerated warehouse storage facilities represent |
| food and ice that goes into the cooler. | | | | 15% of all warehouses and storage facilities in the |
| The first refrigerator was introduced to the public in | | | | overall warehousing industry. Most are responsible |
| the early 1900's, but did not achieve acceptance and | | | | for more than simply storing perishable items. Many |
| household use by consumers until many years later. | | | | refrigerated warehouse and storage facilities |
| Scientists conducted years of experiments and | | | | participate in the import, export and distribution of |
| research on evaporation, which led to the discovery | | | | food. As third party logistics providers, they control |
| that this very technique would create the first | | | | most all of the operations necessary to make sure |
| refrigerator. They studied and tested the best | | | | food is delivered safely to consumers. |
| temperatures to store cold and frozen products. | | | | Even if we aren't conscious of it, we all depend |
| They also worked on ice producing techniques. Each | | | | heavily on the cold supply chain. Whether it's the |
| of these techniques would not only be the basis of | | | | dock worker responsible for the timely delivery of |
| the common refrigerator, but in turn, also lead to the | | | | the produce can coming off the boat, or the driver |
| future construction of cold storage warehouses. | | | | delivering goods to a grocery store, we all rely on |
| Before foods make it into your refrigerator, they are | | | | the cold chain being carried out properly. Wherever |
| stored in large cold storage warehouse facilities. | | | | you are on the cold chain, cold storage is an entity of |
| From these facilities, the food is delivered to the | | | | our lives we quite possibly take for granted. |
| grocery store, where we as consumers then pick it | | | | |