How Food Cold Storages Ensure Food Safety

Food safety is related to people's livelihood. Any 环节 in the process from production, storage, distribution, retail to the final arrival at the consumers of various types of food affects the quality and flavor of the food, especially for perishable food, fresh food, etc. A low-temperature environment is a necessary environment for storing various types of food. This is because in a low-temperature environment, the respiration of the food itself is weakened or the activities of microorganisms and enzymes are inhibited, delaying the process of food spoilage. According to the different links in the food circulation, in addition to ensuring low-temperature refrigeration and freezing of food in the installation and construction of various types of food cold storages, there are also special points that need to be noted in their respective links. There are slight differences according to the different usage properties of food cold storages. Let's take a look together.
After various types of food are picked or caught, they need to be cold-processed in a timely manner. They can be sent to the food cold storage for storage or sent to the sales place through refrigerated transport vehicles after being processed cleanly. This type of cold storage is called a production cold storage, which is mainly built in the production area where the source of goods is relatively concentrated and is used as the freezing workshop of fish, poultry, eggs, fish and shrimp, fruit and vegetable processing factories. Because the food is frozen and processed here and stored for a short period before being transported to other sales areas for storage or sale, which belongs to the category of assembling after disassembling, so in the site selection for the installation and construction of the production food cold storage, it is necessary to ensure the convenience of transportation.

When Tianhong Refrigeration designs and builds a production food cold storage, it mainly needs to ensure convenient access, large storage capacity, and strong freezing processing capacity of the chiller unit. The specific cold storage construction plan will be determined according to the source of goods and the commodity transfer plan after detailed and in-depth communication with enterprises or individuals.
After various types of food are cold-processed in the production cold storage, they are transported to the sales area for storage or sale. The food cold storage in each sales area is called a distribution cold storage, which is used for market supply needs, the completion of export plans, and long-term storage and transit transportation. The site selection for the construction of a distribution cold storage generally selects large and medium-sized cities, water and land transportation hubs, and industrial and mining areas with a large population.

The main characteristics of this type of food cold storage are that a small amount of freezing is required and a large amount of refrigeration is required.

At the same time, if there are many types of food stored in the cold storage, the warehouse must be partitioned according to the actual situation to rationally use the cold storage space to store multiple types of food.
After various types of food are stored in the distribution cold storage, they are transported to large, medium and small non-staple food stores in various cities for sale through basic equipment of cold chain logistics such as refrigerated transport vehicles. This kind of cold storage is called a retail cold storage, which is also relatively common in daily life and is often used for temporarily storing retail food. The characteristics of the retail cold storage are small storage capacity, short storage period, and the storage temperature varies according to different usage requirements.