Children's eating practices are being set for life in the preschool years, so providing meals at this time is a wonderful opportunity to influence good habits and lifelong health. [ + ]

"What's the value we are giving our customers?" That was the recurrent theme when Integrated Packaging hosted a group from Australian Institute of Packaging. [ + ]

Why are some strains (serovars) of Salmonella bacteria specific to certain types of animals? Some infect cows, others poultry and still others affect primarily humans. Why this specificity? [ + ]

How closely are you monitoring your wastewater discharge costs? [ + ]

Low-fat interventions have been found to be no more successful than higher-fat interventions in achieving and maintaining weight loss for periods longer than one year. [ + ]

We are living longer, but not necessarily healthier, lives and our diet plays a significant role.

For the dairy industry to grow and thrive, while remaining globally competitive, one of its biggest challenges will be to sustain a high quality focus, while delivering high-efficiency processes that minimise waste and downtime. [ + ]

Industrial quantities of useful natural compounds like resveratrol and genistein can be produced efficiently by growing them in tomatoes. [ + ]

Identification solutions enable companies to trace back the trajectory of their products from the producer, through the processing stages, to retailers — meeting consumer and regulatory demand for transparency on the provenance and authenticity of foodstuffs. [ + ]

As lifestyles shift and global markets influence how and what consumers purchase, food and drinks manufacturers must keep pace with an ever-evolving consumer landscape. [ + ]

The NSW Government announced in February 2015 that it had a preference to introduce a container deposit scheme. That announcement was endorsed by the Opposition. So what is the state of play beyond NSW? [ + ]

As well as being used in the food industry to trace foodstuffs reliably, RFID technology, laser-based barcode scanners and image-based code readers can also be used to optimise production and packaging processes. [ + ]

Everybody's food preferences vary and are shaped by their unique combination of three interacting factors: the environment (your health, diet and cultural influences); prior experience; and genes, which alter your sensory perception of foods. [ + ]

A better understanding of the science underpinning the baking of bread would help bakers improve bread recipes. [ + ]

A food safety faux pax can kill hundreds more than a workplace accident so why is food safety not as ingrained as OHS in businesses? Ben Bowering, the director of rulethirteen, has been working with food businesses and auditing and certification for over 30 years. Here is his take on implementing a food safety culture and food safety leadership. [ + ]