Advancing Food Safety is a registered training organisation, registered with VETAB to provide national competencies from the Food Processing Training Package.
Courses include: allergen and VITAL; auditor courses; food microbiology; food safety and HACCP courses; pest control management; food legislation and labelling; food engineering; packaging technology; food safety QA management and more.
This half-day training course will present the humble corrugated box as probably the most diverse single-form packaging medium in use throughout the world, today and in the future. The course will cover the basics of papermaking for the box industry, will then progress through the conversion of paper and other materials into the finished package that is so necessary for the marketing, safe storage and transportation of virtually every type of product that we buy on a daily basis.
This half-day training course is focused towards people from all aspects of packaging, including students, technologists, designers (graphical and structural), QA/QC, purchasing, marketing and logistics.
Have you ever gone to a press approval and struggled to make the printer understand what you wanted?
Do you want a basic understanding of what problems you are likely to encounter with each print process?
This half-day training course will provide you with adequate information to be able to have an informed discussion with a printer on your requirements and needs.
People likely to benefit from this course are packaging technologists, packaging designers, people involved in print sales and marketers.
The show’s exhibitor list includes a strong and diverse group of local, national and international businesses committed to taking part. Included are Yummy Snack Foods - purveyors of natural snack alternatives, Toby’s Estate Coffee, Unilever, Fonterra Brands, local artisan traders Le Petit Gourmet Trading and many more.
Buyers will be able to discover new food and beverage products, see state-of-the-art equipment, gain insight into national and international trends and learn practical new skills and techniques in a dynamic environment.
Catering to the whole industry, the show will be sectioned into easily distinguishable areas to make visitors’ experiences as relevant and easy as possible. Guests will be able to explore:
New to the show in 2012 is the Queensland Regional Producers Zone, where visitors will find the latest local produce from a selection of Queensland purveyors of quality and artisan foods.
The series of free business seminars also on offer at the show has been designed to provide practical advice to industry members - in particular small foodservice businesses and catering operations - on important and pertinent industry issues. Seminars span the three show days and include topics such as how to attract customers during tough times, cutting costs, smart recruiting to attract and retain the best staff and profit tactics for the year ahead.
Fine Food Queensland is a strictly trade only show. Members of the foodservice and hospitality industries can register to attend for free.
This half-day course will cover MAP and its application to fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, followed by the functional attributes of MAP films. The important role of active packaging (antimicrobials, antioxidants etc) including recent developments and future projections will be examined. The important area of nanotechnology and its applications covering film inclusions eg, nanofibres and nanoclays and their use in MAP will be covered. Advances in polymeric films including sustainability together with the technical assessment and monitoring of modified atmosphere packs will be outlined. The recent scientific opinion from EFSA on the risk assessment of the application of nanoscience and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain will be addressed in respect to packaging materials.
The half-day training course is designed for anyone who has an interest or involvement in the use of MAP and barrier materials. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of techniques and materials and recent developments. It will include a recent project dealing with whole meals for the catering sector.
This course, approved by AQIS, will provide participants with necessary skills to design a safe and commercially viable thermal schedule for the processing of low-acid food products in hermetically sealed packaging.
It involves four days of lectures in thermal processing, practical heat penetration work, process calculations, tutorials and preparation for exams. Two examinations will be given on the fifth day, which will cover theory and practical thermal calculations.
Participants who successfully pass the examination will be authorised to submit new thermal process schedules for approval by AQIS.
Anuga FoodTec, the international trade fair for food and drink technology, will open its doors for the sixth time from 27 to 30 March 2012. More than 100 suppliers have already registered to participate in Cologne.
The event’s cross-sector, process-oriented approach is not tied to specific raw materials and covers all aspects of processing, packaging, hygiene, storage and distribution in food production.
This independence of sectors, raw materials and partial processes has made Anuga FoodTec into the global food industry’s leading information and procurement platform.
The registration documents have hit the market and more than 100 suppliers have already confirmed their participation. There are benefits for those companies wishing to present themselves and their products at Anuga FoodTec 2012 that file a binding registration by 15 June 2011: early booking gives them the option of individual positioning and more economical conditions.
Have you ever gone to a press approval and struggled to make the printer understand what you wanted?
Do you want a basic understanding of what problems you are likely to encounter with each print process?
This half-day training course will provide you with adequate information to be able to have an informed discussion with a printer on your requirements and needs.
People likely to benefit from this course are packaging technologists, packaging designers, people involved in print sales and marketers.
The 2012 Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Building Services (ARBS 2012) exhibition and seminar program will be held from 7-9 May 2012 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Professionals and trade visitors who are involved in the design and construction of sustainable, energy-efficient, commercial, residential and multipurpose buildings and the design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and refrigeration products and services worldwide are invited to attend.
The theme for the 2012 event is ‘Connecting people, technology and innovation’. Visitors have the opportunity to view the latest products on the exhibition floor, talk to manufacturers and distributors about new innovations, and network with peers at a variety of social functions including the awards presentation dinner.
The awards program, running for the second time in conjunction with the exhibition, showcases industry achievements across a variety of disciplines.
ConTech aims to bring new technologies, emerging science and issues to the conference audience.
It provides insights into challenges and opportunities as well as the motivation for new ideas that will lead to creative, innovative and successful product development and provide practical tools to take back to businesses to improve performance.
More details to come.
Contact Julie Barnes for more information on (03) 9867 0147 or via email.
The Australian Institute of Packaging will be taking its 2012 National Conference to Surfers Paradise.
The biennial national conference will be themed ‘Packaging...The Road Ahead’ and is one of the largest professional development and networking opportunities of its kind in the packaging industry, bringing together experts from around the globe to cater for all participants in the food, beverage, manufacturing and packaging sectors.
The program will deliver an extensive array of topical and technical sessions and is open to all members and non-members of the institute.
Following a number of highly successful topical conferences over the past few years, the AIP will deliver a two-day event that will cover a broad range of topics relating to packaging, incorporating current trends and future developments, case studies and real-life applications, along with a revisiting of some packaging fundamentals. Issues like sustainability, openability, ease of use, shelf-ready packaging, product stewardship, light weighting and recyclability are just some of the topics that will be canvassed during the conference.
Should your company be interested in exhibiting or partnering with the 2012 AIP National Conference, simply email for a partner’s kit.
The focus of the Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology Convention for 2012 is on the challenges associated with maximising the potential of scientific, technological, societal, legal, regulatory and marketing developments and innovations, within topical aspects of food production.
These aspects include: technology and innovation - how do they direct future directions within the food industry; prebiotics, probiotics and health - new science, new product development opportunities; genetically modified foods - is the time right; can consumers embrace GM foods?; food safety - future evolution of management and regulatory protocols; research - is there a food future without R&D?
The 45th AIFST convention offers the latest information important to food technologists and scientists, sales and marketing, food educationalists, nutritionists, retailers, management and those in other food-related positions.
CSIRO is once again hosting the international IFT/EFFoST nonthermal food processing workshop. The theme of the 2012 workshop is ‘Innovative Processes for Sustainable, Safe and Healthy Foods’.
The workshop will highlight opportunities for nonthermal and other innovative technologies in adding value to foods and enabling the sustainable manufacture of healthier food products (such as reduced salt, fat and sugar) that benefit Australian and international markets.
Session themes will address innovative technologies for:
There will also be a poster session, in which several posters will be selected for short oral presentations and considered for the Most Outstanding Posters Awards. The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is 15 July 2012.
One of the largest biennial packaging and processing machinery and materials exhibition in Australia, AUSPACK PLUS, will be heading to the Sydney Showgrounds, Sydney Olympic Park.
In 2013, the event will incorporate a multiplatform showcase of materials and production component solutions, all under the one roof, alongside packaging, filling and processing machinery.