The Australian Food and Grocery Council has warned that the federal government’s plans to cut greenhouse emissions by between 5% and 15% by 2020 has the potential to compromise the domestic and international competiveness of Australia’s food industry.
After years of quarantive negotiations, fresh lychees from Australia have been exported to NZ for the first time.
In the crowded and rather lucrative bottled water market, standing out on supermarket shelves takes effort and ingenuity.
New Zealand's food and beverage industry has been creating a climate change of its own, setting a greening benchmark for the world.
Teralba Industries new high efficiency, Dimpleflo Modubloc Heat Exchanger, released this year, is proving to be successful throughout the Australian and NZ food, beverage and wine industries.
NZ's newest crown research organisation, the NZ Institute for Plant and Food Research, has opened its doors for business.
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.
Sinogie Consulting, a research and consulting company with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, has conducted a survey to establish how the Chinese milk contamination scandal is likely to affect those involved in the FMCG sector.
Melamine in infant milk; animals sick with viruses; e-coli on fresh vegetables - anxiety over the safety of what we put in our mouths and feed to our families has justifiably reached new heights around the world, sparking fresh government regulations and laws.
At the end of September this year a NZ parliamentary committee decided against supporting a call for mandatory country of origin labelling on food products.