In any given four-week period across 2015 Australian adults drank just over 426 million glasses of alcohol between them says a new study from Roy Morgan Research. This translates to an average of 23 glasses...

Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE has discovered that only five out of 12 supermarket dried oregano products contained 100 per cent oregano when tested by the group. One brand, Master of Spices,...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be commencing a market study into the Australian cattle and beef industry. The study will examine competition, efficiency, transparency and...

Coles supermarkets are launching a travel bookings website allowing customers to use and accumulate FlyBuys points. The FlyBuys rewards program, which was first introduced in 1994, will now let customer’s...

The future of the Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) is currently up in the air. David Carter, Chief Executive Officer of the PCA told PKN that memberships to the council have dropped to levels which...

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is calling on the Federal Government to apply heavier taxes to cheap alcohol including wine sold in casks. Although the wine cask was invented in South...

New mandatory standards for free-range eggs sold in Australia were announced by Australian Federal and State consumer affairs ministers in Canberra late-last week. Egg producers will now be allowed to...

Leading Australian specialist in FMCG consumer insight, Mark Fletcher, will now be joining FoodLegal’s symposium next Tuesday 12 April 2016 in Melbourne. The topic for his keynote presentation at the...

A new research study from Cornell University in the US has discovered that some population groups are genetically designed to be vegetarians. According to the researchers, a gene, called allele, has evolved...

Coon Cheese will be raising funds for Swimming Australia through a ‘Toastie Truck’ that will sell toasted cheese sandwiches. Coon is owned by Warrnambool Cheese and Butter. From April 2016 until 2018,...