Australia’s premier agribusiness awards are on again, helping to recognise excellence in the industry.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies can make a major contribution to New Zealand’s economic development, according to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group.

The Sustainable Packaging Alliance’s (SPA) 13th Round Table ‘Design for Recycling’ will be held in Melbourne on Friday 13 July.

The International Trade Centre (ITC) and ISO have released a product designed to make it easier for small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the food sector to benefit from the advantages of implementing a food safety management system.

A change of menu for 420 Dunkin Donut stores in South Korea has resulted in a tenfold increase in cream cheese exports from Australia in the last three months.

APICS NSW is once again co-sponsoring the Women in Manufacturing Scholarship with the NSW Department of State and Regional Development. The scholarship will enable a woman actively involved in manufacturing in NSW to attend an 18-month internationally recognised supply chain certification – the CPIM.

The findings of a new rat study conducted by Italy’s Ramazzini Institute are contradictory to the extensive scientific research and regulatory reviews conducted on aspartame. The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has stated it is not recommending any changes in the use of aspartame.

Many food and beverage manufacturers will only survive if they can move their brands from the first era of branding to at least the second and possibly the third era of branding, according to Professor David Thomson, speaking yesterday at the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Inc (AIFST) 40th Anniversary Convention in Melbourne.

A process developed by Victorian-based Roma Foods Pty Ltd to make rice and maize gluten-free pasta spirals to export to Italy has won the coveted Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST) Incorporated, Food Industry Innovation Award.

European Union agriculture ministers have finally agreed to clarify the marketing conditions for meat from bovine animals aged 12 months or less. The new rules will require the use of fixed sales descriptions for these meats in the various Member States coupled with an indication of the age category of the animals at slaughter.

International ingredients company, Tate & Lyle has completed the acquisition of an 80% holding in German specialty food ingredients group GC Hahn & Co (‘Hahn’) for a total cash consideration of £78 million (€116 million).

Philip E Nelson, president of the Institute of Food Technologists in 2002 and food science professor at Purdue University, has been recognised as the 2007 recipient of the World Food Prize.

National fresh food producer Mrs Crocket’s Fast & Fresh is the latest to be affected by the increasing toll of rising produce costs with a drought levy to be introduced in the new financial year after a year of dutifully trying to cover the increases internally.

Brew Drinks China 2007 (BDC 2007) will be held from August 16-18 2007 at Qingdao International Convention Centre, Qingdao.

Two recent research projects have shed light on how infants develop tastes for particular foods and to what extent older people lose their ability to smell, taste and perceive different foods, spiciness and texture.