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Is your company's WHS up to date?

07 August, 2017

Nothing will kill a company faster than an adverse workplace health and safety incident. Are you sure your company is au fait with the latest industrial safety polices, research, services and equipment?


Jail for horsemeat fraudsters

03 August, 2017

Three businessmen who passed off horsemeat as beef in a simple grab for profit have been convicted of fraud, with two being given custodial sentences and one a suspended sentence.


JBT buys into powder filling

02 August, 2017 | Supplied by: JBT

JBT Corporation has purchased an English provider of powder filling systems, PLF International, for £28 million.


Hannapak goes to WestRock for $75 million

02 August, 2017 | Supplied by: Hannapak

The Hanna Group (Hannapak), one of Australia's leading providers of folding cartons, has been acquired by WestRock Company.


Fines for fake 'free-range' claims aren't poultry

31 July, 2017

Snowdale Holdings has been ordered to pay a total of $750,000 in penalties for making false or misleading representations that its eggs were 'free-range'.


Finally, food retail spending is increasing

31 July, 2017

The latest AFCG CHEP Retail Index points to modest recovery in retail turnover in Australia, led by the food, particularly catered food, sector.


Marel is getting further into pork and beef

31 July, 2017 | Supplied by: Marel

Marel's strategy to be a full-line supplier to the poultry, meat and fish industries globally is closer to fruition with the company's acquisition of Sulmaq.


ISEKI_Food Conference — call for papers

31 July, 2017

Food scientists from research and industry, technologists, students and the wider community are invited to present topics relevant to food science and technology, industry and education at the 2018 ISEKI_Food Conference in Stuttgart.


Nestlé signs deal to test dehydrated food technology

31 July, 2017

Nestec, a subsidiary of Nestlé, has signed a Technology Evaluation and License Option Agreement to test EnWave's Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) food dehydration technology.


Getting the Asia–Pacific region on board with sustainability in the food industry

28 July, 2017

With 60% of the global population and some of the richest consumers, Asia's share of the global organic food market is less than 10% — but this might be about to change as the Asia–Pacific edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit comes to Singapore in November.


Dearer milk and milk products on the horizon

28 July, 2017 | Supplied by: Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd

The ongoing rebalancing of supply and demand in global dairy markets has led the Fonterra Co-operative Group to increase its forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the upcoming 2018 season. The new forecast is $6.75 per kilogram of milk solids (kgMS), replacing the May 2017 forecast of $6.50/kgMS.


Meet Alex Fileczki — Australia's latest CPP

24 July, 2017

Alex Fileczki is the latest Australian packaging professional to attain the Certified Packaging Professional (CPP) designation.


Brexit poses serious risks to UK's food and beverage sector

24 July, 2017

Is the UK is prepared for the most complex ever change to its food system, which will be required before Brexit? No — leaving the European Union poses serious risks to consumer interests, public health, businesses and workers in the food sector.


McCormick spices up its portfolio

20 July, 2017

McCormick has outbid the likes of Unilever and Hormel Foods to buy Reckitt Benckiser Group's North American food business for around US$4.2 billion.


Only today and tomorrow left to get to foodpro

18 July, 2017 by Janette Woodhouse

Australia's largest trade event for the food and beverage processing industry, foodpro, is in full swing and well worth the visit.


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