Frozen foods continue to grow in popularity in the UK and Australia. The British Frozen Food Federation values the industry at just under 5.4 billion pounds, with a growth of 6.1% year on year. The British...

South Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman has announced a new compliance campaign taking aim at food businesses. The new focus will be on bakeries, poultry and smallgoods retailers, butchers, greengrocers...

One of Australia’s biggest poultry businesses Inghams Enterprises Pty Ltd, is being prepared for sale. “My decision marks the next phase for the successful ongoing development of the company and is...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) instituted legal proceedings for misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to the promotion and supply of a line of duck-meat products. The...

A new scheme will provide greater transparency for New South Wales consumers about farm production systems. Terms such as “free-range”, “barn” and “cage” are now more clearly defined on the...

A parliamentary inquiry will investigate the performance of Victorian food safety regulators Dairy Food Safety Victoria (DFSV) and PrimeSafe. The Victorian Government’s Rural and Regional Parliamentary...

Almost a third of eggs labelled as “free range” in Australia are produced in conditions that breach the egg industry’s own regulations, according to new figures published by the Australian...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced a draft decision to allow South Australian chicken growers to collectively bargain with Australian-based poultry supplier and producer,...

A report on Australia’s poultry industry, released by the National Union of Workers (NUW), suggests an employment “crisis” in Australia’s poultry industry is having a damaging impact on the quality...

Research being undertaken at Deakin University, in Victoria, in collaboration with CSIRO and the Poultry Co-operative Research Centre, aims to produce ‘allergy-free’ eggs for use in food consumption...