Quality Food World is being prosecuted by the Fair Work Ombudsman for allegedly underpaying 46 employees more than $300,000. [ + ]

Fonterra has recorded its largest ever quarter, with 620,000 tonnes of dairy products shipped for export to over 100 markets around the world - 36% more than last year. [ + ]

City University of Hong Kong and Starbucks Hong Kong have collaborated to develop a ‘biorefinery’ designed to use food waste to produce plastics, laundry detergents and other everyday products. [ + ]

Novozymes has developed a fungus that produces malic acid from renewable raw materials instead of oil. [ + ]

The APROPOS project seeks to re-use protein- and oil-rich side streams from fish and oil plant processing. [ + ]

A worker was left with serious and permanent injuries to his arm after a dough extruder activated while he was cleaning it, at Goodman Fielder’s Pampas factory in 2009. [ + ]

Sullair Australia has extended the operational area of Remtron Automation, one of its principal distributors. [ + ]

O-I Australia has been awarded a 4.3 out of 5 rating by the Australian Packaging Covenant for its annual report. [ + ]

The ongoing viability and competitiveness of food processing in Australia has been investigated with a report tabled in the Senate yesterday (16 August). The report examines possible policy responses to the challenges and pressures within the broader economy that threaten the $108 billion food and grocery manufacturing sector that is Australia’s largest manufacturing sector, employing around 200,000 Australians. [ + ]

Small businesses will have the opportunity to ask questions and get guidance on carbon price claims with the ACCC’s interactive webinar on 16 August. [ + ]

LycoRed has been granted a European patent for its extraction process of the Lyc-O-Mato oleoresin from tomatoes. [ + ]

Goodman Fielder Limited has posted an NPAT loss of $146.9 million for the 2011-12 financial year, slightly less than the 2010-11 NPAT loss of $166.7 million. [ + ]

Researchers have found that microwave heating of red palm oil (RPO) retains a higher carotene content than RPO that has been conventionally heated. [ + ]

Butter flavouring used in microwave popcorn which was thought to be safe has been shown to be a respiratory hazard for workers who inhale the substance, causing ‘popcorn workers’ lung’. [ + ]

DAFF has issued the Provisional Final Import Risk Analysis Report for Fresh Ginger from Fiji, which proposes strict quarantine conditions. [ + ]