Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) today invited individuals and organisations with an interest in food regulation to comment on a number of possible changes to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.This Code contains food standards (regulations) that set out requirements for food businesses that wish to sell food in Australia and New Zealand, covering the content, labelling and handling of food products. FSANZ is looking at a number of changes to these requirements, including regulatory... ...Read more »

Scientists in the UK are calling for the Government to allow them to keep sites for GM crop trials a secret in the wake of continued vandalising of crops by protesters. Under current European Union rules the sites of GM trials are required to be disclosed to the public and this has led to most of the 54 sites used in Britain since the turn of the century being damaged at some stage by protesters. Professor Howard Atkinson of Leeds University, whose pest-resistant potato study was destroyed in June,... ...Read more »

Consumers are demanding clearer labelling of key information, including that of country of origin, and are even willing to pay more to get it, according to research by Deloitte. Consumers are aware that this request for further transparency may cost them more at the register, with 73 per cent indicating they would still want country of origin labeling even if it caused the prices of foods to increase slightly. The survey of 1,110 American consumers found that more than two out of five consumers feel... ...Read more »