World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO)
The production, processing, and distribution of refrigerated and frozen foods continue to achieve new levels of technological sophistication. To serve the needs of the food industry, warehousing/distribution specialists must offer the same degree of sophistication plus the scientific background, experience, and access needed to unravel the complexities of quality maintenance in food preservation. The World Food Logistics Organization supplies this strategic element to the frozen food chain.
The World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the proper handling and storage of perishable products and the development of systems and best practices for the safe, efficient, and reliable movement of food to the people of the world.
WFLO 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.