Good money cannot guarantee top people in the food industry. First, top students need to choose food technology and engineering at the tertiary level — and this is not happening.

Ten of the major food safety issues facing the food industry in 2009 are nominated by Bill Marler from foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark.

Too much information on the labels of ready meals will make it too difficult for consumers to extract the information they are interested in when making purchasing decisions.

Challenges to brand understanding can lead consumers to doubt their understanding of an established brand, giving marketers the opportunity to reinvent brands.

The International Food Chain Integrity and Traceability Project is project designed to achieve end-to-end supply chain system assurance.

Hygienic design of processing systems and equipment can not only reduce the risk of manufacturing contaminated food but also increase plant efficiency and cost control.

A pandemic will devastate the food manufacturing industry with up to 50% workforce reductions forecast. But the industry will still have to supply food to the populace.

Improved operations, cost savings and lower transportation costs are the top three drivers for companies re-evaluating their secondary packaging according to the latest PMMI report. Sustainability is high on the agenda but not one of the major drivers.

Compared to a standard level measurement in liquids, the detection and measurement of interfaces have their own particular challenges, leaving many interface applications without reliable level measurements. Most popular today are the electronic or non-mechanical solutions with no moving mechanical parts which offer much higher long-term stability and low or no maintenance operation.

Coca-Cola Amatil (NZ) officially opened its multi-million-dollar, state-of-the-art distribution centre in Auckland in August 2008.

WorkSafe Victoria has released new guidance to help improve safety in Victoria’s cold storage operations.

Murray Goulburn, Australia’s largest exporter of processed food, has commissioned the country’s first Pallet Runner high-density storage system at its Integrated Logistics Centre at Laverton in Victoria.

In the fruit juice drinks and still water segments, carton packaging has lost market shares to PET in recent years, but worldwide, the use of carton packaging for beverages is still increasing.

The melamine adulterated milk crisis in China is providing a warning to all companies of the dangers of operating in a global market.

What is it about food science that makes it so difficult to single out a single food-based compound or element as the cause for a clearly observed benefit or hindrance? This was the underlying concern at the inaugural Go Grains Conference, marking the launch of the '4+ serves a day' campaign.