Industry News
CSIRO offers thermal processing course
The course provides attendees with skills to design a safe and commercially viable thermal schedule for the processing of low-acid food products in cans, pouches and other hermetically sealed packaging. [ + ]
Spring Gully boosts production to trade out of administration
Spring Gully Foods says it has hired additional staff to boost production while it attempts to trade its way out of voluntary administration. The company has moved to two shifts a day to meet rapidly expanded demand. [ + ]
Tetra Pak honoured for continued packaging innovation
Tetra Pak has been honoured with the first DuPont Continuing Innovation Award, which is presented to winners of five or more previous DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. [ + ]
Mixed reactions to Greens’ CoOL Bill
The Greens’ new Bill on country-of-origin labelling has drawn mixed reactions from the food industry. AUSVEG has voiced its support for the Bill, while the Australian Made Campaign has reservations. [ + ]
Too much of a good thing: controlling ethylene
As part of a worldwide effort to find better ways of controlling ethylene, scientists compared all existing ethylene control/removal methods and technologies. The results of their review are published in the journal Chemical Reviews. [ + ]
DAFF announces changes to security paper
DAFF has updated the paper for export sanitary and phytosanitary certificates for dairy products as part of the AQIS brand retirement. [ + ]
High fructan barley
CSIRO has developed a barley variety high in fructans which will enable food producers to deliver wholegrain food with greater potential health benefits provided by one natural ingredient. [ + ]
JMP takes three of six APPMA awards
JMP Engineering had plenty to smile about at the APPMA Awards of Excellence: the company took out three of the six awards, including the Export Achievement and Customer Partnership Awards. [ + ]
Emhart Glass named as O-I preferred supplier
Emhart Glass and Owens-Illinois (O-I) have signed an agreement naming Emhart as O-I’s preferred supplier of glass-forming machinery and equipment to all of O-I’s plants around the world. [ + ]
Emerson opens flow calibration and service centre in Singapore
The US$1 million Southeast Asia Flow Calibration and Service Center is reportedly the first in-region, internationally traceable calibration facility. [ + ]
Environmental Packaging Awards submissions open
PAC.NZ has announced that entries into the 2013 Environmental Packaging Awards - Fast Forward - are now open. In total there are eight categories open for entry and a Supreme Winner. [ + ]
Seafood, gut health and lasers: 46th annual AIFST Convention
From sessions on seafood science and gut health to a laser fence that shoots down mosquitoes, the 46th annual AIFST Convention is full of cutting-edge and compelling topics. [ + ]
Natural antimicrobials increasingly preferred over synthetic
Functional food ingredients will increasingly be used as active agents in food antimicrobial coatings, Frost & Sullivan has predicted. [ + ]
New ISO standards for product safety and recall
New ISO standards have been released for Consumer Product Safety (ISO 10377) and Consumer Product Recall (ISO 10393). [ + ]
AFGC and GS1 support Food Allergy Week
The AFGC and GS1 Australia are calling on all companies in the food and grocery industry to get on board with GS1 GoScan as part of Food Allergy Week. [ + ]
