A panel of leading Australian food industry experts has ruled out plain packaging of high calorie foods as a possible way to fight obesity. Plain paper packaging was one of the key topics debated at the...

Consumer group CHOICE has conducted a review of ‘diet’ foods, which it says shows that “hundreds of products on our supermarket shelves” that claim to help consumers lose weight might actually...

The nutrition bars sector continues to show rising levels on interest, in line with even ahead of the market for cereal bars as a whole, according to market research organisation Innova Market Insights. According...

A new voluntary code of practice for whole grain ingredient content claims has been launched by industry body the Grains and Legumes Nutrition Council (GLNC). Consumers will begin to see the standardised...

Food and beverage manufacturer Lion has ‘deleted’ its Berri Truly juice product after Federal and State MPs said it should be withdrawn from sale because it was made in Mexico and it was “fundamentally...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has directed seven suppliers of bottled water to remove ‘organic’ claims from labelling and marketing material. An eighth supplier has withdrawn...

More people in the US are exercising, but obesity levels are still rising, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Two studies...

The global trend for marketing of ‘natural’ food and drink products is showing little sign of slowing, according to global market research organisation RTS Resource Ltd (RTS). High profile food scares,...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that Australian supermarket group Coles has paid six infringement notices issued by the ACCC for misleading Country of Origin labels....

Australian parents of children with food allergies appear to be complacent about warnings on product labels, regardless of their child’s history of anaphylaxis, according to research published in the...