Victoria’s small to medium food manufacturers can now access the expertise and technical innovations they need to grow their businesses, following the launch of the $1.4 million Food SME Technology Transfer Program (FoodTech).

Rockwell Automation Australia’s new general manager, Don Werner, has signalled imminent change within his group, in an effort to assist the Australian food and beverage sector through what he predicts will be challenging times in 2007 and beyond.

A program launched by Nespresso Australia will see a local student travelling to Costa Rica to discover how to create a more sustainable future.

A research team at the Riddet Centre on the Massey (NZ) campus has developed a process that enables the active ingredients in Omega3 fish oil to be incorporated in food in large doses without the usual pungent smell in fact, with no smell at all.

ConFectioNZ 2007, the annual conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Australasia (CMA), will be hosted at the Millennium Resort, Rotorua, in New Zealand, 8–10 March, 2007.

UniSA researchers have been developing novel omega-3 rich pork products to help Australian consumers meet the newly introduced target dietary intakes for the omega-3 fatty acids known as EPA and DHA.

The packaging and processing industries will be rewarded for excellence in their field of expertise with the Australian Packaging Machinery Association conducting its Awards of Excellence in conjunction with AUSPACK 2007.

The 10th Government Food Analysts Conference will be held at the conference facilities of Food Science Australia, Victoria.

Are there any opportunities likely to come out of climate change? Dairy Conference aims to reveal where they may be.

Scientists at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture have coaxed significant health benefits out of trans fatty acids by juggling the molecular structure of soy oil.

Australia’s growing native food industry participants have joined forces to form a national body to represent industry participants and to meet the challenges of developing strong markets both locally and internationally.

The international meat-processing industry will get together at IFFA, Leading International Trade Fair for the Meat Industry: Processing, Packaging, Sales, in Frankfurt am Main, 5-10 May.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its second annual community report on infectious diseases transmissible from animals to humans (zoonotic diseases) which affect over 380,000 European Union (EU) citizens every year.

A systematic analysis of the medical literature shows that nutrition studies'' conclusions correlate with who funds them – much like the bias found for pharmaceutical studies, but with potentially greater public health implications.

Hematech and Kirin Brewery Company have announced the production of healthy prion protein-knockout cows.