Australian Food News previously reported on the follow-up to the death of a Melbourne teenager Sara Milosevic, who died in June 2011 following consumption of three cans of a caffeinated alcoholic beverage. The...

The University of Queensland’s School of Public Health has released research finding that food industry regulation and the aggressive prescription of drugs would save more lives than lifestyle advice. Dr...

Australia’s peak banana industry body has expressed outrage over the Northern Territory Government’s decision to lift a quarantine restriction protecting the rest of Australia’s banana industry from...

The state of Victoria’s Auditor-General Dr Peter Frost has jolted the Victorian government with the revelation of shocking statistics regarding alcohol-related harm in Victoria. According to Dr Frost’s...

New South Wales, since February 2012, has had a menu nutrition labelling law, which requires information about the energy content of fast food and snack food from larger chains to be made available on...

Kellogg Australia announced today (Tuesday 12 June 2012) that the company has reduced the salt levels in its Corn Flakes and Rice Bubbles cereal products by 20%, fulfilling its 2010 commitment. On 22 March...

The third tranche of the Australian Government’s anti-dumping legislation through the  was passed by the House of Representatives yesterday (9 May 2012). Dumping occurs when goods are imported into...

Australian Food & Grocery Council’s (AFGC) push for a Supermarket Ombudsman and a Fair Trading Code of Conduct to be established in Australia is gaining momentum. The AFGC has long supported the...

Human rights will be bought into sharper focus as the  Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 comes into effect from today. Under this new law, all new Federal laws  are to be checked to see...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which is the Australian government regulatory agency for medicines, legal drugs and complementary health products, has issued a public safety advisory to notify...