The ACCC has said it will not intervene in Amcor’s proposed acquisition of flexible packaging company Aperio. [ + ]

Tate & Lyle has launched a dedicated website for beverage manufacturers. The company says the website is intended to be a “one-stop shop for innovation” for beverage manufacturers. [ + ]

Quality by design rather than by testing. Many labs are moving onto the process line but this does not mean the end of the food lab. [ + ]

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has released a consultation paper on a proposed approach that could see changes to the way nutritive substances and novel foods are regulated. [ + ]

The most significant addition to food and beverage processing technologies at Anuga Food Tec would have to be cold pasteurisation. [ + ]

Scientists have developed a capsule that can remove radiation and heavy metals from beverages. [ + ]

Today at Anuga Food Tec, President and CEO of PMMI Charles Yuska discussed “trends and issues affecting the global food chain”. This turned out to be a truly time-warped, US-centric experience. [ + ]

Gerlof Toenhake, the Marketing Director of Ball Packaging Europe, gave an interesting talk at Anuga 2012 on why more packaging, especially cans, could be good for the environment. [ + ]

DuPont claims to have created starter cultures that may help quark and fresh cheese manufacturers increase their output by up to 4% by allowing businesses to extract more curd from the milk than other cultures. [ + ]

Anuga Food Tec is held every three years in Cologne and anyone who’s anyone in the food and beverage processing and packaging industry either exhibits or at least attends. [ + ]

To help kitchen appliance and food processing equipment manufacturers comply with new EC regulations for glass fibre sizing, Owens Corning has developed FoodContact, a glass fibre solution for reinforced plastic. [ + ]

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has called for submissions on a proposal relating to minor meat species and wild game. The proposal looks at possible food safety measures for producers and processors of animals such as kangaroo, crocodile, rabbit, ostrich and emu. [ + ]

Clear food labelling is key to improving Australian health, an alliance of leading health and consumer groups has argued. [ + ]

After 25 years in Blackburn, Rockwell Automation has a new address. The company moved its South Pacific headquarters to Mountain Highway in Bayswater. [ + ]

Woolworths has opened a $31 million extension to its meat centre in Bunbury, Western Australia. [ + ]