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BUSINESS Ltd taking care of food safety Newmarket company heading to Olympic BY AMANDA com When people think of the Olym pics they think about athletes competitions and medals A Newmarket company is think ing about food safety Using the same technology pio neered by NASA to prevent food thats sent into space from spoiling Thermor Ltd will help keep world athletes safe and healthy during the Games with the BIOS wireless tem perature manager You have food service providers and appliances from all over the world coming to make meals for these athletes Thermor director of sales TI Osland said This is the last layer to keep food safe The thermometers will be used to monitor temperature in walk- in fridges air coolers and buffet bars at the Vancouver and Whistler athletes villages where up to 90 sensors can be tracked on a main computer to record temperatures every 15 minutes Its a kitchen nanny It replaces the supervisor walking around with a clipboard checking old thermometers Management will know within minutes if there is a bad temperature not 12 hours later Its a kitchen nanny Mr Osland said It replaces the supervisor walking around with a clipboard checking old thermometers Man agement will know within minutes if there is a bad temperature not 12 hours later The automated monitoring sys tem eliminates the time expense and potential gaps in data associ ated with manual record keeping The system is designed to alarm users when there is a temperature discretion such as a fridge temper ature rising above 4C or a hotplate temperature falling below 60C Foodborne bacteria and illnesses such as listeria salmonella and coli grow and multiply during the to 60C range Mr Osland said Most foodbome illnesses are caused by keeping food at improp er temperatures and many people think they have the flu he said Its food poisoning We want our athletes to be at their best during the Games The wireless temperature man ager is also used in hospital vaccine fridges and commercial restaurant kitchens including the Tim Mor tons and Delta Hotel chains The system combines Thermors STAFF Thermor Ltd is supplying a wireless temperature monitoring system for use in the food pavilions in the Van couver and Whistler Olympic villages director of sales Osland said technology in the weather sector with more than 25 years of experi ence in the food industry Thermor is one of Canadas oldest companies specializing in thermometers dating back to the mid- 1930s when the company cre ated mercurybased thermometers sales and marketing vicepresident Mark Beaton said The company was also involved in die federal governments mer cury thermometer takeback pro gram The latest technology in ther mometers is the digital infrared forehead unit with which mothers can scan a childs forehead without For more information about Thermor Ltd visit disturbing him Its a family saviour This is for young moms with young kids Mr Beaton said A young child cant tell you whats wrong When a sick child finally gets to sleep the last thing a mother wants to do is wake the child up to get a temperature and go through it all again The thermometer scans a major artery above the eyebrow which is more accurate than measuring temperature in the rectum ear drum and even under the tongue When measuring under the tongue there are many variables that can affect the actual tempera ture such as mouthbreathing the natural hot and cold spots in the mouth and drinking beforehand Mr Beaton said A young child cant tell you whats wrong When a sick child finally gets to sleep the last thing a mother wants to do is wake the child up to get a temperature and go through it all again The No 1 medical device in a household is the thermometer Mr Beaton said Moms used to touch the forehead to get a general indication of whats going on This is based on that same principle Its the simplest and most nonobtru sive way to get an accurate tem perature Thermor designs and creates digital products for health diagnos tics weather monitoring fitness and the food services industry Our job is to find the logic behind a product how the con sumer will use it and how it will work Mr Beaton Our products are designed to be easier than pro gramming a DVD player The family owned and oper ated company moved to Newmar ket more than two years ago and employs about 35 people Although Thermor contracts out the manufacturing of its prod ucts the company created a stew ardship social program where the same work standards that apply in Canada are applied overseas Mr Beaton said People dont want to buy a product made by a nineyearold I dont Mr Beaton said Canadians have standards So we apply those standards to our products too