tna has announced a new manufacturing plant in China. It will produce the company’s end-of-line packaging solutions along with plants in Australia and the UK.

A food and nutrition lab is being opened in Sweden by IMCD Nordic, part of the IMCD Group. It will be an extension of the activities carried out at the IMCD Food & Nutrition Technical Centre in Belgium.

Functional Technologies has commenced food trials with acrylamide-preventing yeasts in non-bread, starch-based foods for a leading European producer. The collaboration illustrates the willingness of global food producers to seek and adopt innovative acrylamide-mitigating strategies and solutions in their processing practices.

Key Technology has appointed Louis Vintro as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Global Operations.

A2C has entered into agreements to establish a sales and marketing joint venture in association with leading UK dairy company Robert Wiseman Dairies PLC.

The company that supplied the precooked chicken used in Virgin Blue's inflight wraps in 2008/09 has been fined more than a quarter of a million dollars in a NSW Local Court. For the first time in Australia DNA evidence was used to establish that the precooked chicken was the source of Listeria monocytogenes that resulted in 29 confirmed cases of listeriosis among the airline's passengers.

Waters Corporation, Mars and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have jointly pledged $1 million to create the first-ever Global Food Safety Capacity Building fund. To be managed by the World Bank, the proposed fund will support global food safety improvements through expanded understanding of food safety standards and best practices throughout the food safety system, from farm to fork.

The SCLAA has announced the winners of the 2011 ASCL Awards.

A CSIRO microencapsulation workshop will be held at its Food and Nutritional Science facility at Werribee, Victoria, in December.

The Australian NORD subsidiary has been officially opened at the new facility in Victoria.

Foodbank and the Australian dairy industry have collaborated on a new program to provide one million litres of milk to people in need.

A recent study gauging the impact of consuming more fish oil showed a marked reduction both in inflammation and, surprisingly, anxiety among a group of healthy young people.

The term 'paddock to plate' has been gaining currency in the Australian psyche in recent years as consumers put more emphasis on wanting to know where their food comes from.

IMCD Group is opening its regional headquarters in Singapore and appointing a new Vice President.

An Australian invention, which monitors the behaviour of starches as they are cooked, could revolutionise food manufacturing processes.