| |September 20198By Vipen Malhotra, President, Arya Omnitalk Wireless Solutions Pvt.C old chain is becoming an increasingly important el-ement of modern-day lo-gistics. CRISIL Research expects three key segments - meat, seafood and bio-phar-maceuticals - to drive the growth of India's cold chain market in the coming years. These segments are particularly important because they constitute a part of our ex-ports and are therefore expected to comply with stringent quality requirements and regulations. Domestically, dairy and food and beverages are the other major industry segments that are necessitating more robust and widespread cold chain infrastructure within the country.The Importance of DocumentationThe success of cold chain logistics depends largely on the ability to ship tempera-ture-sensitive products for long distances over land, water or air, while maintaining the integrity of the products. This involves many things, one of which is documenta-tion. The importance of documenting prod-uct storage conditions in the cold chain cannot be overstated. This is important for every step ­especially transit ­ and can be achieved with the help of temperature re-cording devices (or data loggers, as they are called) that monitor the temperature on a EXPERT OPINIONWHY TEMPERATURE CONTROL AND LOCATION TRACKING MATTER AT EVERY STAGE OF COLD CHAIN LOGISTICSArya Omnitalk provides productivity enhancement to organizations managing mobile resources - men, materials, money and machines.Vipen Malhotra
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