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Scientists are looking for safe new ways to prevent ice from damaging food in frozen storage, which costs consumers billions of dollars a year in wasted food.
COVID-19 vaccines have very specific storage requirements that make shipping a difficult task. Two ideas – fulfillment centers and cross-docking – could help overcome some distribution challenges.
The cold supply chain keeps vaccines fresh during distribution, but the current system is nowhere near large enough to distribute the billions of COVID-19 vaccines that the world needs.
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Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Supply Chain Management, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor, food scientist, University of Tennessee
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Sustainability Researcher, Queen's University, Ontario