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This IRC Business Briefing is designed to explore the challenges facing the food and drink logistics industry serving UK and EU customers now that the United Kingdom has left the European Union.

It is still very early days for this new trading relationship but already lessons are being learned and alternative modes of operation are being developed. Behind this, however, the fundamentals of food science remain the same: the value of produce is linked to its time-temperature profile and any extension of the delivery process could have damaging consequences all along the supply chain.

This meeting will be of interest to operators in this sector but also to their suppliers and customers and is of wider interest to other professionals who support this trade in one way or another.

Programme

Time	Presentation	Presenter
10.30-10.40	Introduction to the business briefing	Richard Lawton, President of IIR Commission D2 Storage and Transport
10.40-11.10	Keynote - refrigerated transport and storage	Gérald Cavalier, Cemafroid and President of the IIR Science and Technology Committee
11.10-11.30	Refrigerated road transport under ATP	Chris Rhodes, Cambridge Refrigeration Technology
11.40-12.00	Practical economic and legal hurdles faced by Industry	Shane Brennan, Cold Chain Federation
12.00-12.20	Opportunities for UK Business	Andrew Lawrence, Cold Chain Federation
12.20-12.45	Panel Question and Answers
12.45-13.45	Lunch
13.45-14.05	Science of food storage chilled and frozen	Judith Evans, Refrigeration, Development and Testing and LSBU
14.05-14.20	Pharmaceutical transport and storage including vaccines	Philip Greening, Heriot Watt University
14.20-14.40	Challenges to refrigerated transport and storage, new refrigerants energy consumption gaseous emissions and particulates	Brian Robinson, Zemo Partnership
14.40-15.00	Panel question and answer
15.00-15.10	Conclusion and Close	Conference Chair