The Victorian Government announced this week in its annual Budget that it has set aside AU$61.4 million of funding in this year’s State Budget for the food and agriculture industries. Revealing the...

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has invited submissions on whether to allow pet dogs in outdoor areas of eating establishments. The Food Standards Code currently doesn’t allow animals, except...

Researchers at Washington State University have found that an ingredient in garlic is 100 times more effective than two popular antibiotics at fighting one of the most common causes of food poisoning. The...

Queensland-based Hans Continental Smallgoods has recalled its cocktail franks sold loose in the delicatessen sections of Woolworths, Food For Less, Flemings and Thomas Dux stores in NSW, ACT and QLD. The...

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved a proposal to extend country of origin labelling to unpackaged beef, sheep and chicken meat. The Australian Government had asked FSANZ to address...

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved a proposal recommending permission be given for the sale of raw milk hard to very hard cooked curd cheeses in Australia. However, FSANZ will not...

Despite the confirmation of an isolated case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as ‘Mad Cows Disease’, in a dairy cow in California’s Central Valley last week, US beef...

The world’s largest beverage company, the Coca-Cola Company, has denied media reports that it has been in talks to acquire Monster Energy Corporation. Monster Beverage Corporation manufactures energy...

Australian ice cream brand Streets, which is owned by multi-national food company Unilever, has launched Australia’s first ‘outdoor facial recognition billboard’ to promote its Magnum Infinity...

Obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their non-overweight colleagues, a new study by Monash University, in Victoria, has...