New Zealand’s Regal Salmon has landed the meat and smallgoods award at the 6th annual Food Magazine Challenge Awards with its Regal Smoked Salmon Pastrami. The win for the Kiwi company comes hot...

The NSW Food Authority has swooped in on illegal backyard ready-to-eat meat manufacturers, issuing 27 penalty notices, five improvement notices, four prohibition orders and ten warning letters. “An...

Cargill’s US beef business and Meyer Natural Foods have signed a joint distribution venture for the Meyer Natural Angus and Laura’s Lean Beef brands.Under a marketing deal, the two products...

US food writer Anthony Bourdain’s new book, Medium Raw, hits Australian shelves today. In his latest offering, the author of Kitchen Confidential roasts the food industry from top to bottom, including...

Two previously closed Australian meatworks, the Burrangong Meat Processors in Young, NSW, and the Katherine Abbatoir in NT, are both set to reopen after purchases by new owners. Burrangong, which went...

While Australian’s are spoilt for choice when it comes to the abundance of quality local produce available at our supermarkets and specialty stores, figures from business information analysts IBISWorld...

Chinese meat and food processor Zhongpin has announced plans to expand and improve production at its pork facility in Anyang in Henan province.The company is investing around US$6.3m to further improve...

Major challenges facing the Australian meat industry in the short term include the high Australian dollar and increased competition in Australia’s major markets in Asia, according to Paul Morris,...

Two more abbatoirs have suspended work this week, in a rash of closures prompted by the rising Australian dollar and low stock supply after widespread drought. Yesterday’s closure of two plants by...

New research from UK’s food watchdog has discovered that country of origin labelling is not particularly important to shoppers but confusion reigns as to the meaning of the term. The Food Standards...