We hope you’re staying warm and surviving our recent snow as we take a little break from the norm and provide a few quick updates on various cold storage topics of interest. Pfizer freed from deep-freeze The Food and Drug Administration announced this week that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine no longer needs to be stored at…
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As we discussed in a previous blog post, cold storage is playing an ever-increasing and important role in the vaccine rollout for COVID-19. According to a recent report in the biotech publication Lab Manager, the vaccine supply chain is evolving as logistics solutions are being developed to overcome challenges related to extreme cold storage temperature…
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We would like to wish a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a warm, safe holiday season to everyone we have served and come into contact with over the course of this rollercoaster of a year. What a journey 2020 has been! We would also like to let you know that, once again, we will…
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Officials in China claim they have repeatedly found the coronavirus on packages of frozen food imported from nearly two dozen countries and have thrown out product and disinfected more than 100 cold storage facilities, according to multiple reports. Packaging initially became a suspected cause of virus transmission in June at some wholesale food markets, when…
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No one grows more garlic than China, which exports twice as much of the edible bulb as the rest world combined. Suppliers there begin putting garlic in cold storage in September to prevent garlic bulbs from germinating, preserving them for sales into the winter and spring months. While in cold storage, garlic is usually kept…
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At Washington Cold Storage, we understand the strict requirements related to the dating, tracking and tracing of the products we store in our facilities. Our online inventory is an important amenity to many of the customers who choose to partner with us. Many of our customers must have instant access to a real-time count of…
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Biotech companies are racing to push their candidates for a coronavirus vaccine through clinical trial stages. And, if successful, these companies have promised large scale supply rollouts. But, according to Fierce Pharma, two frontrunners for a vaccine may be have a difficult time generating the many millions of doses promised due to a need for…
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The sudden increase in online sales of essential goods in 2020 has caused suppliers to scramble for warehouse space and think again about how their supply chains need to be modified to meet growing demand, the real estate services company JLL said in a recent report on the changing landscape of industrial real estate. Online…
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When you think of goods being checked into cold storage, you typically think of chicken and cheese, berries and beef. We even devoted a blog post to the subject, where we revealed refrigerated warehouses like ours can be in demand to store everything from dairy to drugs. But did we forget anything? How about bees?…
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Beef is piling up in cold storage facilities across the nation despite processing slowdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Statistics Service reported this month that cold storage stocks of beef reached 490 million pounds in April. That’s 13.9 percent higher than one year ago and 6 percent higher…
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