India Pilot Study Shows How the Cold Chain Can Help Reduce Food Loss and Carbon Emissions
Supply chain profits increase; food loss cut 76 per cent and CO2E emissions 16 per centSINGAPORE, Dec. 2, 2016 — Investment in the cold chain – specifically pre-cooling and transport refrigeration equipment – can reduce food loss by 76 per cent and carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2E) by 16 per cent. Those are the results of a pilot study on kinnow, a type of mandarin, commissioned by Carrier and released today at Carrier’s World Cold Chain Summit to Reduce Food Loss, held in Singapore. Carrier is a part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: