The International Organisation for Standardisation has adopted a method developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre to measure vegetable fats in milk chocolate.

Barons Brewing has announced the acquisition of licensing and distribution for Australian beer company Outback Brewing. Under the agreement, Barons will control all global sales, marketing and distribution for the brand, making Outback Brewery the fourth licence acquisition for Barons this year.

Dr Owen Catchpole's work in the supercritical extraction of high-value extracts from biological products such as fish waste has been recognised with his being awarded the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Fonterra Prize for Industrial and Applied Chemistry.

Natural lipid molecules found in soy, Sphingadienes, may underlie the benefits of all soy products. They have been found to possibly prevent and treat colon cancer.

Tetra Pak has an agreement with Braskem to purchase HDPE, derived from renewable feedstock, for use in a pilot project to produce 'green' caps and closures.

SSP Pumps has appointed Matrix Process Solutions as its sole Australian agent into industrial applications.

Symrise has created a Consumer Health unit which will develop a wide range of functional ingredients for modern food supplements and offer flavour solutions for health products.

A one-stage process which produces polylactic acid and its copolymers through direct fermentation makes the renewable production of PLA and lactate-containing copolymers cheaper and more commercially viable.

National Starch, a subsidiary of AkzoNobel, has entered into an agreement to acquire Penford’s Australian specialty grain wet milling and manufacturing facility based in Lane Cove and certain other intellectual property and assets of Penford’s Australian specialty starch business.

Researchers have developed a robust method to prevent cloning of passive radiofrequency identification tags that will not add to the cost of the tags.

The Australian Institute of Packaging's 2010 conference will focus on ‘The art and science of packaging’. Potential speakers and exhibitors are invited to contact the association.

The food industry in the US has responded to the global financial crisis by implementing efficiency improvements and going ‘green’.

The recently completed World Food Summit in Rome has failed to set targets, deadlines and monitoring systems needed if the global challenges of feeding the world's growing population are to be overcome.

The management buy-out of Penford's Tamworth Wheat Starch Plant by Grain Products Australia is expected to be finalised by the end of November 2009.

Alto Manufacturing is purchasing Huhtamaki's rigid plastic consumer goods business in Australia.