"Rotting lizard found in baby formula" makes an arresting headline. It has all the features to make it popular - innocent babies, uncaring international food processors, biosecurity threat to the nation … But are we sure its true? [ + ]

Innovative packages are the key in the fight against food loss and wastage. More effective barrier layers, germicidal films and freshness indicators are intended to help products to keep for longer and halt consumers' throwaway mentality. However, despite all these improvements, companies have to keep a constant eye on process efficiency and on costs. [ + ]

Individual nutritional lifestyle choices are changing the bakery market in developed countries like Germany. [ + ]

The resurgence in home baking has increased sales not only for ingredients used for baking from scratch but also the bakery mixes. [ + ]

Real-time PCR methods are ideal for fast investigations when urgent answers are needed (eg, contamination of a production plant). The recent E.coli O104:H4 German outbreak being a perfect example.

New Zealand's largest three-day food manufacturing, packaging and processing technology event is worth putting into your calendar as a 'must attend'.

The biggest branded food producer in Argentina stacks delicate bags of pasta faster and more efficiently with robotic automation.

British Bakels looked to Matcon to improve their production flexibility in order to accommodate their broadening portfolio of bakery ingredient premixes. [ + ]

The pursuit of perfection led Pasta Montana to install an Optyx digital sorter from Key Technology to eject foreign material (FM) and defects from the product stream. [ + ]

The new George Weston Foods production facility in Castlemaine, Victoria, is now home to Australia's largest robotic palletising system, featuring 16 ABB palletising robots. [ + ]

In this final instalment of GM in Australia - a series looking at the facts, ethics, regulations and research into genetically modified crops - Heather Bray and Rachel Ankeny explore the murky world of food labelling. [ + ]

The vacuum pump remains at the heart of every packaging machine. The quality of the vacuum pump largely defines the quality of the packaging machine and, therefore, the quality of the packaging.

Wilmar International and MSF Sugar's announcements that they will no longer export through Queensland Sugar Limited is likely to have a significant impact on the Australian sugar supply chain - but it's not all bad news for the sugar industry. [ + ]

Atlas Copco compressors provide nutritional supplement manufacturer with the pure, oil-free air required during fermentation.

Peterson House turned to Raymax Applications to offer their customers the ability to trace every bottle of sparkling wine throughout the distribution process right to the end consumer.