Manufacturers urged to crack down on food safety
25 July, 2023LRQA has urged manufacturers to increase focus on change management to ensure supplier approval processes remain effective, following food safety concerns.
Roundtable talk: food industry supply chain challenges
19 July, 2023 by Cameron Greening, Senior Vice President, Sales ANZ, Fortude and Bruce Heaney, Strategic Sales Director, InforA recent roundtable discussion among major food and beverage executives emphasised the importance of collaboration to overcome common issues such as the supply chain.
Balluff BVS ID Optical Ident Sensor
11 July, 2023The Balluff BVS ID Optical Ident Sensor is designed to read barcodes, 2D codes and DMC codes to improve identification tasks.
NCS Australia FreshFocus Enterprise Resource Planning solution
30 June, 2023FreshFocus is an ERP solution, built on Microsoft technology, tailored to meet the challenges faced by the fresh food supply chain industry.
Aussie eggs made safer with traceability tools
01 June, 2023A project enabling traceability in the Australian egg industry has concluded, having created resources to help farmers implement on-farm traceability systems.
Use-by dates could be past their use-by date
21 March, 2023Forget expiration dates, a graduate research student has developed a miniature pH sensor that can tell when food has spoiled in real time.
Food industry bucks the 'inventory crisis' trend
05 December, 2022A new report of independent Australian food suppliers shows they're profiting from a domestic model of holding less stock, despite previous supply chain woes during the pandemic.
Edible tag in a biscuit: tracks food from factory to stomach
19 October, 2022Researchers from Osaka University have developed a 3D printing method of embedding edible QR codes in a biscuit.
Track-and-trace trial of cherry and potato supply chains
21 September, 2022The trial simulated a product recall and the results show the benefits that could be achieved by the adoption of a digital standards-based traceability system.
Ensuring Australia's food bowl will not be empty amidst global food shortages
16 September, 2022 by Rob Stummer, Asia Pacific CEO at SYSPROTo build more resilient supply chains going forward, food production companies should consider investing in technologies that involve all stakeholders.
UK study of synthetic chemicals found in food
15 September, 2022A study of common organophosphate esters (OPEs) found in UK foods could lead to more food producers taking another look at their supply chain.
Using voice to improve supply chain efficiency
02 September, 2022Workplace food manufacturing and delivery company Tasty Fresh has adopted a voice picking system from Dematic, which resulted in a jump in productivity.
Tasmanian cherries use fingerprint tech to reduce counterfeits
04 July, 2022Reid Fruits has experienced a decline in product counterfeiting of its cherries in Asian markets as a result of using a Smart Fingerprint solution.
New wholesale distribution centre announced for Victoria
30 June, 2022Metcash has signed an agreement with the Goodman Group to construct and lease a distribution centre in Truganina.
'Lettuce' deliver on food traceability: new guide released
20 June, 2022A user-friendly how-to guide for tackling traceability across the Aussie organic supply chain has been released — so when is our next lettuce delivery?
