A new study by scientists at the Mayo Clinic, in Arizona, US, suggests that eating too much may double the risk for memory loss in people age 70 and older. The study involved 1,233 people in Olmsted County,...

Two ladies from the village of Oak Ridge, Missouri in the USA have developed a deep-seeded interest in creating jewellery out of potatoes. Jo Ann Hahs and Linda Freeman have raised thousands of dollars...

Our food systems like many other systems in our society, are undergoing enormous changes as a result of energy and environmental pressures, significant increases in populations and urbanisation, new technologies...

Dairy Australia’s latest forecast, released today, shows that Australia’s milk production is continuing to climb, with total output for 2011-12 forecast to be between 9.4 and 9.5 billion litres, up...

One of the world’s largest fast food chains, McDonald’s Corporation, has announced that it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to outline their plans to phase out the use of sow gestation...

More than 100 tonnes of meat and dairy products has been “illegally imported” into Australia from December 2009 to December 2010, according to a statement released today by Tasmanian Liberal Senator...

New research from Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, based in Perth Western Australia, has found that children of mums who had low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy are twice as likely to...

Coles has announced that it will be the first Australian supermarket group to apply a sustainable seafood message to all fresh fish in stores giving customers an option of sustainability when shopping...

One of Melbourne’s largest suburban municipalities, the City of Casey (which has a 250,000 population covering areas such as Berwick, Cranbourne, and Narre Warren South) in Melbourne’s South East,...

The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has accused the Northern Territory (NT) government of breaking the promise by the government to consumers in the NT that beverage prices would not rise on...