George Weston Foods Ltd plead guilty on Friday on two counts of improper waste disposal at its Don KRC meat processing plant in Castlemaine last year, and was ordered to pay $60,000 in damages, plus court...

Sainsbury’s has reported unexpected success with its new milk bag product, with 110,000 sales per week. The milk bags, which use 75% less packaging than a standard plastic bottle, now account for...

Wesfarmers today announced their retail sales results for 2010’s third quarter, with ‘solid’ sales growth in the Coles division. Coles’ total food and liquor sales cam in at $5.465,...

New studies have shown that over a third of mercury in the US diet comes from tuna, and that not all tuna are equal in mercury content. A study by Edward Groth in the journal Environmental Research analysed...

A new study by the US Agricultural Research Service and the University of Georgia has attempted to track sources of Listeria contamination in a commercial chicken cooking plant. The study followed a brand-new...

The US House of Representatives was called upon on Tuesday to reform dairy policy and pricing mechanisms to assure a viable future for the country’s dairy industry. Addressing the House, Pennsylvania...

CSR has denied that there is interest from a Japanese consortium in its sugar business, Sucrogen, after a report in the Australian Financial Review yesterday suggested that a group including Mitsubishi...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has authorised a further five years of collective bargaining between Victorian chicken growers and processors Baiada Poultry, Inghams Enterprises, Hazeldene...

The UK’s Food & Drink Federation (FDF) has launched a “manifesto” to highlight what it claims is “the strategic importance of the food and drink manufacturing sector to the...

A new study utilising the Roy Morgan Health Care Monitor has identified that food allergies are more prevalent then previously thought. There are approximately 836,000 people in Australia who report suffering...