Australian Wholefoods chose KM Packaging Services to develop a lidding solution for its Clever Cooks range of gourmet lasagnes. KM Packaging conducted intensive trials to develop a solution to meet the company’s needs. [ + ]

Two recent studies examined the relationship between diet and semen quality - so be careful with full-fat dairy and carbs if you want to optimise your fertility. [ + ]

WNIFT&M spoke with Carolyn Creswell, founder of Carman’s Fine Foods and the Telstra Victorian Business Woman of the Year, about gender in industry, ethical business and exporting. [ + ]

When Earthbound Farm changed its clamshell packaging to a more environmentally friendly version, it also decided to automate its clamshell packing operation with Adept’s ClamPAC robotic clamshell case packer. [ + ]

Pistol & Burnes, a Canadian coffee roasting company, has introduced a fully compostable pack for its Farmer First brand which incorporates cellulose-based NatureFlex from Innovia Films. [ + ]

Chadwicks Sleeves has worked with sports and health supplement manufacturer Reflex Nutrition to create primary branding shrink sleeves for its range of ready-to-drink products. [ + ]

Since rolling out Oliver Wight’s Integrated Business Planning across its business, Simplot Australia’s service levels are up at 98% and inventory has been significantly cut. [ + ]

Production of epoxides made from domestic vegetable oils is already at pilot-plant stage. [ + ]

There is a bit of a stoush going on in pineapple land. Last June the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) Biosecurity recommended that the import of fresh pineapple fruit to Australia from Malaysia be permitted subject to a range of quarantine conditions. [ + ]

Spirax Sarco designed a solution that combined Affco NZ’s need for condensate return and a hot water system into a large energy-savings project. The solution paid off in just over a year. [ + ]

Heinz-Golden Circle was looking for a solution to depalletise empty PET bottles from two different-sized pallets simultaneously and provide bottles in single file to two separate filling lines. Scott PHS developed a solution. [ + ]

A new food supply mapping technique is forecast to shorten the time it takes to track down contaminated food sources by showing how product flows through the distribution supply chain. [ + ]

In this increasingly litigious country, we’re rather used to blaming someone else when things go wrong. But have we taken things too far when food processors are constantly under pressure to modify their products to improve public health? [ + ]

CoMac recently installed a keg line for craft brewer Oskar Blues Brewery. The brewery produces around 60 different branded beers from its 35,000 m² production facility. [ + ]

The Development of Food Ontologies project involves the creation of a dictionary that will be used to search a large number of scientific texts for all things food related. [ + ]