METHOD FOR SELECTING TIME-TEMPERATURE INDICATORS

摘要

A method for a distributor to market time-temperature indicators or integrators (TTIs) to customers. The distributor maintains an Internet web site having performance characteristic specifications for each TTI of its product line. The performance characteristic specifications can be visual graphs of the time/temperature relationships of the TTIs at a range of time- outs and temperatures. The customer, knowing at least one time/temperature point for a particular product, can review the TTI performance specification s on the web site and select one or more TTIs having performance specification s which match the known time/temperature point. The customer can then request samples of the selected TTIs. Products with the sample TTIs can be subjected to shelf-life degradation tests to evaluate the suitability of the TTIs.