On the 13th and 14th of May. A workshop was held in Reykjavík on the European project CHILL ON. This was the first meeting of work component 5 ("Integration and validation - field trials"). Six employees from Matís attended the meeting, as Matís will play an important role in the project, which is briefly about testing and adapting technological innovations and solutions developed in the project.
The EU market area is the second largest market in the world for fresh and frozen foods and trade in chilled and frozen foods has increased by more than 10% per year in recent years. Fish is the third most consumed food in Europe and due to the freshness of fish, it was decided to study everything related to quality and traceability in the supply chain and transport with chilled and frozen fish in the project.
The CHILL ON project will also work on the development of the same components for chicken products and the supply routes of such products to Europe. In this connection, it may be mentioned that from Brazil, for example, about 250 thousand tons of chicken breasts are exported annually to European markets. Participants in the project come from all over Europe but also from outside the continent, such as from China and South America.
This four-year project is now half over and will end in 2010. More information about the project can be found at project website.
Matís' project manager in CHILL ON is María Guðjónsdóttir.