Australia's food producers have been recognised for their roles in feeding local and global communities as part of World Food Day. The theme for World Food Day 2013 is 'Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition'. [ + ]

McCain has announced it will close its South Australian potato processing plant in December this year. A total of 59 permanent employees at the Penola plant will be offered redundancy packages and offered counselling and support to find new jobs. [ + ]

A national container deposit scheme would increase the cost of beer, the Brewers Association has claimed. [ + ]

Coles is celebrating reaching its sodium reduction targets for its own-brand bread and breakfast cereals, which it says have removed more than 15 tonnes of salt from the Australian diet each year - the equivalent of 2.5 million teaspoons per annum. [ + ]

The demand for dairy imports in China is forecast to grow for at least the next two years, a new Rabobank report says. According to the report, the demand comes as local milk production struggles under structural change in the supply chain. [ + ]

A survey published in the Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health has shown that the majority of adults believe it is important that the government regulates food policy options under consideration. [ + ]

Food labels are a 'window' into the entire food system, according to Flinders University PhD candidate Emma Tonkin. Tonkin is researching the way food labelling influences consumer trust in the food system. [ + ]

Adding GST to fresh fruit and vegetables could have significant negative impacts on Australians' health, researchers from the University of Queensland have warned. [ + ]

Ishida's RV Series multihead weigher range has been awarded an Oscar for innovation - an Oscar Macfrut Award, that is. [ + ]

Revised ISO standards pertaining to information security management have been published. BS ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and BS ISO/IEC 27002:2013 help businesses manage information security. [ + ]

The bakery and cereal sector in China is expected to grow by nearly US$15 billion between 2012 and 2017, according to new research from Canadean. [ + ]

A discovery that improves the practicality of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas could have unexpected benefits for carbonated beverages. [ + ]

Finalists for the Food ingredients (Fi) Europe Excellence Awards Programme have been announced. The awards, which coincide with the Fi Europe show, recognise major innovations in the food ingredients industry across eight categories. [ + ]

Monsanto Australia has made an application to FSANZ to modify the Food Standards Code to include food derived from genetically modified lucerne, which has been modified to contain reduced levels of lignin. [ + ]

The UK Public Health Responsibility Deal has called for reduced portion sizes as a way of reducing the nation's caloric intakes, but a review has found that consumers choose food based on a number of different factors - with nutrition coming some way down the list of priorities. [ + ]