To address the lack of omega-3s in the German diet, Fraunhofer researchers have developed an omega-3 rich food that will appeal to German consumers: the omega-3 sausage. [ + ]

Aberdeen Group’s new research study ‘Supply Chain Visibility: A Critical Strategy to Optimise Cost and Service’ reveals 63% of 149 companies with predominant global supply chains have ranked supply chain visibility as a high priority for improvement. [ + ]

A new avocado marketing company has been launched. The Avolution brings together producers from around Australia to ensure a 12-month supply of avocados. [ + ]

The ISEKI-Food Association is conducting a webinar which will present data from a study that aimed to identify the skills needed by professional food scientists and technologists into the future. [ + ]

Applications are now open for Innovation Grants. Grants from $250,000 to $1.5 million are available for agriculture, fishing, aquaculture and farm forestry industries. [ + ]

World demand for pharmaceutical packaging products will increase 6.4% annually to $90 billion in 2017, the Freedonia Group has predicted. [ + ]

PathoGenetix has announced research demonstrating the use of genome sequence scanning (GSS) technology to confirm and identify pathogenic Salmonella strains in enriched spinach samples in less than five hours. [ + ]

Quantec has signed a distribution and supply agreement with Kanematsu Chemicals Corporation to distribute Quantec’s patented IDP complex of bioactive milk proteins throughout Japan. [ + ]

What’s New in Food Technology & Manufacturing talked with Walter Mayer from Langen Packaging Group about the Langen Air Cartoner. [ + ]

Recent studies show people tend to eat twice as much of foods labelled sugar free, fat free or whole wheat due to what dieticians call the ‘health halo’ effect. Dietician Kari Kooi lists the top five ‘health’ foods to avoid. [ + ]

Strawberry lovers rejoice: the days of unpacking your luscious berries from the refrigerator only to find them sprouting wispy goatees of mould may be numbered. [ + ]

The AFGC, Coles and the RED Group have launched the REDcycle Program in Canberra, which recycles soft plastic packaging into furniture. Consumers can drop off plastics at eight Coles stores in Canberra. [ + ]

Avocado Oil New Zealand is using NZ’s only open-access product development spray dryer at Waikato Innovation Park to dry avocado pulp into a high-value powder to be marketed under the Avopure brand. [ + ]

Taylors Wines has won the Australia’s Best White Wine Bottle category for its Promised Land Moscato, which features applied ceramic labelling. [ + ]

According to researchers at the University of Sheffield, cold boiling is a more efficient way to dry products for food manufacture, using tiny, hot bubbles. [ + ]