move-to-15c
A study by Nomad Foods, Europe’s largest frozen food business, has been published in Nature’s npj Science of Food journal that challenges accepted industry standards by demonstrating that product can be safely stored at -15°C rather than -18°C.
It says that the findings show that a 3-degree shift maintains quality and safety while cutting energy consumption by around 7%.
The research evaluated nine frozen food categories and generated more than 20,000 quality ...
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Eighteen months from its launch, the Move to -15°C Coalition has now expanded from 11 founding members to 55 organisations. The grouping, recently convened in London to reaffirm its mission to explore and enable a temperature shift in frozen food logistics from -18°C to -15°C. This could cut global emissions ...
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The Move to -15°C initiative, which aims to cut carbon emissions in the frozen food supply chain by increasing temperature standards from -18°C to -15°C, has recruited UK supermarket Iceland, Emirates SkyCargo, and Latin American cold storage operator, Emergent Cold LatAm.
It has also secured support from key the British Frozen ...
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The Move to -15°C initiative to cut carbon emissions in the frozen food supply chain, says it has more than doubled its membership since its launch at COP28.
The frozen food temperature set point of -18°C was established as an industry standard a century ago but logistics technology has improved substantially ...
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