World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO)

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The World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO),founded in 1943 as The Refrigeration Research Foundation (TRRF), is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the proper handling and storage of perishable products and the development of systems and best practices for safe, efficient, and reliable movement of food to the people of the world. In 1999 the organization became known as the World Food Logistics Organization to more clearly depict the broad scope of the organization’s work. WFLO has a close working relationship with the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW).

WFLO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, is supported by a Scientific Advisory Council comprised of leading food scientists. Membership includes over 300 warehouse companies in 50 countries around the world, as well as 60 companies in other areas of the food industry which support and share in this valuable resource. WFLO supports a wide variety of research projects in food science, over 140 in the past 57 years, on such subjects as food packaging, tempering parameters, temperature control during transportation, mobility threshold temperatures, refrigeration technology, and shelf life determination, as well as a computer program for determining freezing times. WFLO also offers a variety of educational programs, including an annual four-day training Institute serving refrigerated warehouse professionals and other food industry personnel. For the past 32 years, the Institute has been held on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. A similar program, the WFLO European Education Program has been held in Belgium, since 1998.