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The United Nations has called for action to ensure long-term global food security as a new report shows that high food prices are likely to continue over the next decade. ‘The State of Food Insecurity...

A controversial partnership allowing Australian pharmacists to market dietary supplements alongside medication at point-of-sale has been axed. Last month, Australian Food News reported on the partnership...

Treasury has told a Federal Senate inquiry that reducing unnecessary barriers to market entry and clamping down on anti-competitive behaviour should be a priority for Australia’s food processing industry. In...

A new study, just published in The Journal of Pediatrics, has found that television food advertisements can have more impact on a child’s food choices than advice from their own parents. Dr Christopher...

Leading Australian scientists claim that the discovery of large, widely dispersed populations of genetically engineered canola growing uncultivated in the US is no cause for concern. A study just published...

Fonterra Australia, a subsidiary of New Zealand-based multi-national dairy giant Fonterra, has announced record year on year growth in export volumes of nutritional milk powder products from its Victoria...

Despite continuing concerns by local fishermen about the safety of fishing in Gladstone Harbour, central Queensland, a three-week fishing ban previously imposed on the harbour by the Queensland Government...

A new study from Stanford University’s School of Medicine, in the US, has found perinatal and pregnant women who consume a healthy diet stand a lesser risk of having a baby with birth defects. In the...

The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has reacted to consumer advocacy group CHOICE’s criticisms of “low-fat” claims on foods. AFGC Chief Executive Kate Carnell said, “If misleading claims...

Australia’s peak dairy farming body, Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF), has told a Senate Committee inquiry that Australian dairy farmers are being pushed out of business by supermarkets retailing milk...