Today FSANZ advises: Cerebos (Australia) Ltd has recalled a range of Foster Clark’s dairy desserts from supermarkets nationally due to the possible presence of small pieces of plastic, posing a potential...

Australia’s food standards agency, Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ), has refocused its food monitoring program for the risk of imported food from Japan. Following the nuclear accident...

New concerns are being expressed about the proposed introduction of a Health Claims standard into the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. Having undertaken at least 5 draft versions of the proposed...

The Australian Government’s food standards agency, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), has called for submissions about adopting World Health Organization (WHO) limits for chemicals in packaged...

A substance that is commonly found in many sports supplements has been banned in Australia. The announcement to ban the ingredient, known as DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine), interestingly came via the Therapeutic...

Australian supermarket giants Coles, Woolworths, Cosco and Metcash have acclaimed the new GS1 Australia product retail technology, Recallnet. In an open letter, published on the GS1 website, the retailers...

Australian scientists have discovered the structure and operating procedures of a powerful anti-bacterial killer that could replace antibiotics. The invention has wide implications for the food industry...

A leading Australian nutrition scientist, Professor Andrew Sinclair from Deakin University, has called for mandatory labelling in Australia of trans fat in food products. His findings indicate that some...

There are several dairy products on the Australian market that are supplemented by phytosterols and marketed as cholesterol-lowering. Phytosterol esters are essentially fatty acids derived from plants,...

The Victorian food industry is experiencing a boom in live micro-organisms. Probiotics is the name of the game. Probiotics are ‘friendly bacteria’ with beneficial health effects being claimed for consumers. Victoria...