WASHINGTON — In a speech to delegates at the International Congress of Refrigeration, William G. Sutton, president of the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), lauded researchers and engineers from around the world for their role in bringing refrigerated medicines, blood, safe food, and air conditioning to developing countries.
Sutton noted that "without refrigeration and refrigerated transport, countless doses of vaccines would spoil" and cited development of innovative shipping coolers and refrigerators that run on batteries. However, he noted that much remains to be done because the World Health Organization estimates that 30 million children do not have access to immunization and 2 million die each year.