PepsiCo has this week launched its new Pepsi Special drink in Japan, containing dextrin, a fibre that distributor Suntory claims “reduces fat levels.” The soluble fibre absorbs water and promotes food...

One of Australia’s largest dairy groups, Murray Goulburn (MG), in its 2011– 12 annual report released at the start of November 2012, has revealed that sales of its food service products grew by 10...

Bega Cheese’s CEO Aidan Coleman told the annual general meeting of the company today that the past financial year had been “the most dynamic year” in the company’s 113 year history. Highlights...

The food and fibre sector is “big business” for the State of Victoria according to latest growth figures from the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. In 2011-12, Victorian food and fibre exports...

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...

It is sometimes said that cockroaches will be the only survivors of a nuclear disaster. Not so! Octopus and whelk (the latter being a marine snail) are both traditional seafoods in Japan. Each of these...

Tsunami-devastated farmers from Fukishima in Japan have made North Queensland the home for a new source of Japanese-produced rice and are celebrating the harvesting of their first crop. The initial trials...

Despite the confirmation of an isolated case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as ‘Mad Cows Disease’, in a dairy cow in California’s Central Valley last week, US beef...

Salt levels vary significantly in the fast foods sold by six major companies in various developed countries, according to a study published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. An international...

Representatives from all sectors of Australia’s cattle and sheep industries are meeting in Sydney this week to set the strategy and budget allocations for Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) global...