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     <p class="content-1">In order to have a better idea about the proper storage temperature of drinks, we went to interview a few superintendents of VEDAN Company, a leading food company in Taiwan, which makes drinks and instant noodles. We then learned that room temperature foods don’t need our product. However, we also learned that UV light will cause the loss of nutrition of the vitamin drinks. That is why we decided to invent a sticker to sense both temperature and UV light.</p>
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    <p class="content">We focus on some sorts of merchandises, which have little tolerance under sunlight and high temperature. One of them is cosmetics. One weekend, our teammates interviewed the cosmetics counter staff of several department stores. Quite a few kindly answered our questions and shared their experience with us. Our appreciation to the counters below.</p>
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    <p class="content">To learn more about the application of our stickers on medicines, we emailed Tian I Chinese Medicine and interviewed Min Tong Pharmaceutical Company, we received the following feedbacks.</p>
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    <p class="content">Second, regarding to the applications of our stickers, the possibilities are few. These includes the agglomerating agents, which are likely to melt under 37 degrees Celsius, and the suppositories, for they might have appearance deformation, and the ointments, for the liposoluble and the water-soluble ingredients in the ointments will start to separate.</p>
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    <p class="content">Third, they use opaque bottles or plastic bags to block the UV rays. However, they have never conduct experiments on the correlation between the amount of UV and the degree of damage to our drugs, and they’ve never tested whether UV light can penetrate the containers. So, they will try to avoid the drugs from being exposed to sunlight.</p>
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    <p class="content">In conclusion, we found that the ointments and the UV prevention are where our stickers can be possibly used.</p>
  
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    <p class="content">Taiwan has the highest density of convenient store in the world. In other hand, convenient stores have been one of the main clients of the logistic industry. Hence, we contacted with a superintendent of a well-known chain convenient store and made a visit. There, we discuss the relationship between convenient store and logistic industry.</p>
 
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    <p class="content">TSkin care products are like cosmetic products. They need carefully taken care to avoid sunlight and high temperature. Advanced Delivery Technology Co. is a company which has expertise in skin care products and biomedical material. It is our pleasure to have interviewed Dr. Liu, the CEO of the company. We asked him questions about international transportation. He not only answered particularly, but also gave us a big support. </p>
 
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    <p class="content">Three of our members interviewed a few superintendents of VEDAN Company, a leading food company in Taiwan. They told us about some procedure that the food products go through.</p>
 
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     <p class="content">We asked if food products that are preserved at room temperature would need the service of our product. The answer we got was “not really.” Since the quality of their products is unlikely to deteriorate within a short period of time, it’s not a big deal whether the temperature during the transportation process is higher than 37 degrees Celsius or not. They said that even if the temperature rose to 45 or 50 degrees Celsius, it is acceptable.</p>
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     <p class="content">We also had an online interview with Polysciences Asia Pacific Inc. The main product that they need to transport is the fine-chemicals. According to them, about 2 to 3‰ of their products were damaged due to the high temperature during the delivery. They said that they will definitely buy our stickers when they appear on the market.</p>
  
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    <p class="content">Besides, MOL (Taiwan) Co., Ltd. and Polysciences Asia Pacific, Inc. have filled in our internet questionnaire, which is also helpful in understanding the international transportation.</p> 
 
  
 
      
 
      

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Preface

We have visited some cosmetics storefront and logistics company. During our visit and interview, we gain some valuable suggestions and some positive feedback which our project would be useful.

VEDAN

In order to have a better idea about the proper storage temperature of drinks, we went to interview a few superintendents of VEDAN Company, a leading food company in Taiwan, which makes drinks and instant noodles. We then learned that room temperature foods don’t need our product. However, we also learned that UV light will cause the loss of nutrition of the vitamin drinks. That is why we decided to invent a sticker to sense both temperature and UV light.

Tian I Chinese Medicine & Min Tong Pharmaceutical Company

To learn more about the application of our stickers on medicines, we emailed Tian I Chinese Medicine and interviewed Min Tong Pharmaceutical Company, we received the following feedbacks.

First, before they apply for drug licenses, the drugs must pass the accelerated test (40 degrees Celsius for half a year without deteriorating). So, a short exposure to 37 degrees Celsius should not do harm on their drugs.

Second, regarding to the applications of our stickers, the possibilities are few. These includes the agglomerating agents, which are likely to melt under 37 degrees Celsius, and the suppositories, for they might have appearance deformation, and the ointments, for the liposoluble and the water-soluble ingredients in the ointments will start to separate.

Third, they use opaque bottles or plastic bags to block the UV rays. However, they have never conduct experiments on the correlation between the amount of UV and the degree of damage to our drugs, and they’ve never tested whether UV light can penetrate the containers. So, they will try to avoid the drugs from being exposed to sunlight.

In conclusion, we found that the ointments and the UV prevention are where our stickers can be possibly used.

Polysciences Asia Pacific Inc.

We also had an online interview with Polysciences Asia Pacific Inc. The main product that they need to transport is the fine-chemicals. According to them, about 2 to 3‰ of their products were damaged due to the high temperature during the delivery. They said that they will definitely buy our stickers when they appear on the market.