Staff Writer

Metal and X-ray detectable broom

Featuring metal detectable and X-ray materials, Detectaclean’s new Total MDX Brushware from Hill Brush is the biggest innovations since the invention of resin-set bristles.
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A Safer Food Chain with Traceability

As consumers grow increasingly aware of the quality of the products they demand, food and beverage manufacturers are being constantly challenged to produce, trace and distribute top-quality products that are safe for human consumption.
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Government Funding for the Food Industry

An interesting anomaly about government funding is that, on the one hand it is such an attractive source of cash, but on the other hand the majority of eligible companies either don’t know it exists or don’t know how to access it says Lior Stein from Rimon Advisory.
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Woolworths commits to eliminate food waste

Woolworths has announced they will commit to eliminate food waste that is sent to landfill by 2020, and will begin a new partnership with Australia’s leading local food rescue organisation, OzHarvest.
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Australian carob producer secures non-GMO status

The Australian Carob Company, producers of more than 200 tonnes of quality, allergy-free carob pods for distribution throughout Australia and export markets such as USA, China, Hong Kong and the UK, has secured Non-GMO verification from Cert ID.
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Food exec gets 28-year sentence for poisoning outbreak

According to the Washington Post, former peanut company owner Stewart Parnell has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds between 2008 and 2009 in the US.
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