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.
Reported shortages in Australia’s mango harvest have pushed up prices of many varieties, but Calypso mangoes have weathered the season’s conditions well and are selling for little more than last year’s prices, according to The Harvest Company, which holds the trademark for the variety.
The CSIRO Food Futures Flagship has developed an automated instrument for accurately predicting glycaemic index (GI) and resistant starch (RS) in food products.
At a time of great challenge for the Australian pork industry, research by the Pork CRC in the last year has reduced feed costs and improved herd production efficiency, while working to improve pork’s consumer appeal.
Pacific Sensor Technologies offer Madgetech SGTemp1000, a precision RTD based temperature recorder for use with Smart Gaskets.
Blame it on western demand for cheap food or lack of domestic controls in place, but the current milk crisis has led to the public scrutiny on food products as never before.
Aeris Hygiene Services, an environmental technology group focusing on the sanitation of cool rooms, is helping global food suppliers, supermarkets and logistics companies to remediate their cool rooms through a multi-enzyme remediation.
The necessity to ensure reliable service availability to priority loads has lead to ABB developing the new auto-reclosing device known as the F2C-ARI.
Aeris Hygiene Services delivers cool room performance solutions, the residual actions of which prevent colonisation of cool room surfaces for extended periods.
Adam's Pest Control offers food companies pest-control solutions without the need for chemicals, which have the potential to contaminate food production areas.