About the Frisbee project

The FRISBEE Project is a European Union funded 4-year Project to provide new tools, concepts and solutions for improving refrigeration technologies along the European food cold chain. The objective of the FRISBEE (Food Refrigeration Innovations for Safety, consumers’ Benefit, Environmental impact and Energy optimisation along the cold chain in Europe) project is to provide new tools, concepts and solutions for improving refrigeration technologies along the European food cold chain. At all stages the needs of consumer and European industry will be considered. The project will develop new innovative mathematical modelling tools that combine food quality and safety together with energy, environmental and economic aspects to predict and control food quality and safety in the cold chain. More details on the Frisbee project home page.

About the FRISBEE Tool

The FRISBEE tool is a software for assessing cold chains with respect to quality of products, energy use and the CO2 emission (environmental) impact of the refrigeration technologies involved in the cold chain. It contains validated kinetic models that can predict how the quality and safety evolve along the cold chain as a function of temperature and duration. Six main product categories have been considered: fruits, ready to eat meal, meat, fish, vegetable and milk products. Furthermore, the Monte Carlo simulation has been implemented