The news is in. Functional foods are super popular and suppliers cannot keep up with demand. But is the hype justified?
NZ lamb mince, being sold in England, has been found to have four times the legal level of added water by British food technicians checking the products.
Australia is becoming a dumping ground for low-grade olive oil, with no effective controls in place on cheap imitations coming in from Europe.
A new website called Labelwatch.com allows consumers to compare label information on more than 25,000 brand-name consumer products.
Dairy Farmers is facing legal action after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission took the company to court for alleged misleading advertising.
Consumers and manufacturers alike can soon be confident that organic products are truly what they seem as the development of an Australian Standard for the organic and biodynamic industry nears completion.
Following legal action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Federal Court has declared that Nudie Foods Australia Pty Ltd made misleading claims about two of its juice products, Rosie Ruby and Rosie Blue, and breached the consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices
Manufacturers making misleading claims about their compliance or otherwise to Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA) standards without having undergone a thorough independent assessment may be subject to prosecution under the Trade Practices Act.