Why does my vaccine temperature logger show different results than usual?
Many of our customers use their temperature loggers to monitor vaccine fridges. Vaccine fridges have better temperature control than many other types of fridges and the results tend to be very predictable. Then there are the sudden changes which causes the readings to be in a new range. What causes a sudden shift in temperature […]
Linda Mottram – Rotten Food Cookbook Interview
Last week Linda Mottram interviewed Shane van de Vorstenbosch, the author of The Rotten Food Cookbook. Anyone who is interested in a copy of The Rotten Food Cookbook should contact us. It’s a fantastic book about food safety and has some great jokes in it, many fantastic looking recipes, and plenty of legal disclaimers. I […]
Why do two temperature sensors show different results but both be right?
Two temperature sensors side by side Today I received two graphs from two different brands of temperature sensors (temperature loggers). The first was a Minnow temperature logger and the other our wireless temperature logger. They had both been in a fridge, side by side. They both covered the same time period and the distinct spikes […]
Why does my temperature logger have different values to the fridge display?
The problem A very common question is “why does my temperature logger have different values to the fridge display?” For example a fridge may have a digital display and a temperature logger but they never show the same temperature. They may show a different range (e.g. one may only fluctuate by 1° while the other […]
Wireless temperature logger finalist Best New Hospitality Product at Fine Food 2015
Fine Food 2015 – Best New Hospitality Product Finalist We are proud to announce that the Wireless Temperature Logger was one of the final three in the Best New Hospitality Product award this year at Fine Food Sydney. There were over 300 entrants and to be in the final three was a great honour. We […]
Calculating a 6D reduction of Listeria monocytogenes with temperature loggers
The NSW Food Authority released the document “Listeria Management Program” (NSW/FA/FI034/0809) in 2008 which detailed guidelines for the management of Listeria monocytogenes within the retail and wholesale process. In it was a table of process times and temperature to deliver a 6D reduction of Listeria monocytogenes. In plain English, that’s the amount of time required […]
Food safety training is not “very, very boring”
Yesterday I attended a Food Safety Supervisor course and was blown away when the instructor introduced the topic with: This is very, very boring. I am telling you now. And I suspect that most people teaching food safety have exactly the same mindset. It is a mindset that is all through management and it is […]
Watching a chef try to kill me
Last week I had the joy of watching a chef try to kill me. To make it even worse, I had just spent the previous day writing a recipe that used a very similar technique as part of my “Rotten Food Cook Book”. My recipe is called “Chicken Seizure Salad”, but this chef tried it […]
How long will a vaccine fridge remain below 8° during a blackout?
The critical temperatures 2°C and 8°C are the official limits that a vaccine must be stored between. Of the two temperatures, the lower one is the more critical. At 0°C certain vaccines freeze and become useless. This is important to keep in mind when dealing with the issue. The higher temperature is less rigid because […]
Using temperature loggers when transporting fresh basil
The temperature joys of transporting basil Today I had a question about the use of temperature loggers with the transport of fresh basil. The problem was in regards to the receiver rejecting shipments because the basil was out of the required temperature range (8° to 14°C). The temperature logger needed to either demonstrate that the […]