pitt&sherry has appointed a new National Leader - Food and Beverage. Andrew Buckley comes to the role having previously been Senior Project Engineer for the Food and Beverage business unit. Read more »

A Purdue University researcher says we should reconsider our opinion of potatoes and other white vegetables as they are just as important to a healthy diet as their colourful cousins. Read more »

Danone has signed an agreement with COFCO, the state-owned largest food company in China, to form a joint venture. In addition, Danone and Mengniu have established a joint venture for the production and sales of yoghurt products in China. Read more »

Nations with emerging dairy markets and rising middle classes in Asia and Africa are eager to import from ANZ due to the perceived high quality of our dairy products, new analysis from Frost & Sullivan suggests. Read more »

Consuming diets higher in fibre may increase the risk for Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection and severe disease. Read more »

A container deposit scheme will raise prices and cost jobs, despite environmental groups claiming such a scheme won’t affect prices, the Australian Beverages Council has said. Read more »

Tetra Pak has been honoured with the first DuPont Continuing Innovation Award, which is presented to winners of five or more previous DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. Read more »

Spring Gully Foods says it has hired additional staff to boost production while it attempts to trade its way out of voluntary administration. The company has moved to two shifts a day to meet rapidly expanded demand. Read more »

The course provides attendees with skills to design a safe and commercially viable thermal schedule for the processing of low-acid food products in cans, pouches and other hermetically sealed packaging. Read more »

The Greens’ new Bill on country-of-origin labelling has drawn mixed reactions from the food industry. AUSVEG has voiced its support for the Bill, while the Australian Made Campaign has reservations. Read more »

As part of a worldwide effort to find better ways of controlling ethylene, scientists compared all existing ethylene control/removal methods and technologies. The results of their review are published in the journal Chemical Reviews. Read more »

DAFF has updated the paper for export sanitary and phytosanitary certificates for dairy products as part of the AQIS brand retirement. Read more »

CSIRO has developed a barley variety high in fructans which will enable food producers to deliver wholegrain food with greater potential health benefits provided by one natural ingredient. Read more »

JMP Engineering had plenty to smile about at the APPMA Awards of Excellence: the company took out three of the six awards, including the Export Achievement and Customer Partnership Awards. Read more »

Emhart Glass and Owens-Illinois (O-I) have signed an agreement naming Emhart as O-I’s preferred supplier of glass-forming machinery and equipment to all of O-I’s plants around the world. Read more »

The US$1 million Southeast Asia Flow Calibration and Service Center is reportedly the first in-region, internationally traceable calibration facility. Read more »

Functional food ingredients will increasingly be used as active agents in food antimicrobial coatings, Frost & Sullivan has predicted. Read more »

New ISO standards have been released for Consumer Product Safety (ISO 10377) and Consumer Product Recall (ISO 10393). Read more »

PAC.NZ has announced that entries into the 2013 Environmental Packaging Awards - Fast Forward - are now open. In total there are eight categories open for entry and a Supreme Winner. Read more »

From sessions on seafood science and gut health to a laser fence that shoots down mosquitoes, the 46th annual AIFST Convention is full of cutting-edge and compelling topics. Read more »