Fresh Food Quality: Hands-on Experiments with Postharvest Technology

This course is designed for professionals across the agriculture, food supply, and quality assurance & surveying sectors. It's your ticket to becoming an expert in the subtleties of making sure that fresh produce stays at optimal quality from the time of harvest to the customer's plate.

This programme is especially suited if you are technical professional and play a key role in ensuring the quality, safety, and marketability of fruit and vegetables. Whether you're involved in research, postharvest technology, extension activities, or quality assurance, our programme will equip you with the latest knowledge and techniques to excel in your field.

• Explain the general principles behind the factors and processes affecting fresh food quality with fresh produce (fruits and vegetables) as focal point.
• Master quality in your fresh produce business by applying this information in your daily practice with hands-on experiments, workarounds and strategies.

This comprehensive and tailored programme has a focus on advanced techniques, providing hands-on-experiments, and the chance to network with industry peers and experts. The programme includes a field trip. You will gain in-depth knowledge and establish yourself as an expert in the field of:

• Where and why food loss and waste occurs and how to design interventions;
• Postharvest physiology, ripening and deterioration processes;
• Important factors for measurement, evaluation and modeling of product quality and loss;
• Current technologies for storage, transport, packaging and handling of perishables.
  As part of the course, you will work in groups on hands-on experiments guided by experts from Wageningen University & Research. Please download the flyer for the full programme.

You can combine this course with our upfront Refrigerated Transport Technology course on 16 June 2025.

After completing the programme, you are awarded with a certificate.