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Australians eat less than half the recommended daily intake of vegetables

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Australians eat less than half the recommended daily intake of vegetables The average vegetable consumption of Australian adults is only half the recommended intake, based on guidelines published by the...

Woolworths extends support for SPC Ardmona with $70 million deciduous fruit deal

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Woolworths and SPC Ardmona have announced a new supply deal for the Select brand Supermarket giant Woolworths has announced a $70 million deal to buy product from Australian fruit processor SPC Ardmona....

Over one third of Australian vegetable consumers embrace Chinese and Thai cooking

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Chinese and Thai cuisines are popular among Australian vegetable consumers More than a third of Australian vegetable consumers have added Chinese and Thai cuisines to their cooking repertoire in the past...

Victorian Government to assist manufacturer to replace imports and plan export focus

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The Victorian Government has announced it will contribute to vegetable processor Kagome Australia’s $21 million expansion plans that will create 20 new jobs in northern Victoria. Victoria’s Acting...

Food Ministers Forum reined in by Abbott government’s new approach

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A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL)...

Australian consumers will pay more for ‘eco-friendly’ vegetables, study

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Consumers have shown a strong willingness to pay more for eco-labelled vegetables, while also indicating that supermarkets should favour ‘environmentally-responsible’ suppliers, according to new research...

Australian vegetable prices drop 10.7 per cent in a year

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The Consumer Price Index for vegetables, which was updated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on 23 October 2013, has shown a fall in vegetable prices for the last quarter. This quarter’s fall...

Australian consumers showing high interest in Asian vegetables, new trend

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Almost one third of Australian consumers have shown “significant interest” in buying more Asian vegetables, according to a new study from the Australian vegetable industry. The study, which surveyed...

Australian tomatoes: Is anti-dumping tax too late?

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Several lines of processed tomato product from Italy were sold in Australia at “dumped prices”, according to a report from the Australian Government’s Anti-Dumping Commission. The findings mean a...

McCain to close potato processing plant in South Australia

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Food manufacturing company McCain Foods has announced it will close its potato processing plant in Penola, South Australia, by 20 December 2013. The closure will see 59 permanent employees lose their jobs....