AFSG is the organisation for safe and healthy food and non-food products
Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group (AFSG) is part of Wageningen UR (WUR). It develops and transfers knowledge in the field of sustainable applications for safe food and non-food products.
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Innovative cooling technology

Together with the multinationals Maersk Line (transporter) and Carrier Transicold (cooling equipment) AFSG developed energy-saving software, enabling a fifty per cent energy reduction for cooling containers with vegetables and fruit. Carbon dioxide emission by cooled container sea transport may as result of this innovative technology decrease by fifty per cent.

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