LycoRed Sante flavour enhancer for powdered and canned soups
04 May, 2012Israeli company LycoRed has adapted its natural enhancer Sante for flavour enhancement of powdered and canned soups. The company claims the product will allow salt reduction of up to 30% without tomato flavour notes.
Resistant starch and bowel cancer prevention
02 May, 2012 | Supplied by: CSIRO Food and NutritionConsumption of resistant starch leads to positive changes in the bowel and could protect against genetic damage implicated in bowel cancer, according to recent CSIRO research.
Third tomato grower in a year goes under
25 April, 2012Tomato farming operation Basacar Produce entered into voluntary administration on 18 April, costing 41 workers their jobs. Basacar is the third major tomato-growing operation to enter administration in the past 12 months, following SP Exports and Barbera.
AUSVEG Road Show offers fruit fly treatment alternatives
10 April, 2012AUSVEG, the national peak industry body for Australia’s vegetable and potato growers, has announced that it is running an Education Road Show that will feature seminars on alternative fruit fly treatments.
Eggs can be raw and risky, says FSANZ
05 April, 2012Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has issued a media release regarding food safety while handling eggs this Easter.
Cheese culture may increase output by 4%, claims DuPont
28 March, 2012DuPont 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.
Gutter oil: out of the sewer and into the frying pan
13 March, 2012 by Alice RichardRestaurant patrons in China face stomach-turning odds of a 1 in 10 chance that their dinner has been cooked in ‘gutter oil’ - used cooking oil that’s dredged from gutters and sewers, reprocessed and sold back to restaurants to be used as cooking oil again. It’s ‘purified’ with chemicals, bleached to change its colour and contains carcinogens PAH and aflatoxin.
Impressive uptake of CSPO Palm Oil in 2011
08 March, 2012Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) experienced unprecedented growth in 2011, according to a statement issued by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
Too sweet? 6 million tonne sugar surplus predicted for 2011/12
24 February, 201275% of Australia's sugar crushing capacity will be owned by offshore investors (up from just 16% in 2010) if Mitr Phol's offer for Maryborough Sugar Factory is successful and a 6 million tonne sugar surplus for 2011/12 is predicted by Rabobank in its latest report.
Tate & Lyle Merizet 116 and Merizet 118 extra-dry starches
15 February, 2012 | Supplied by: Tate & LyleTate & Lyle has announced the expansion of its range of native starches, with the introduction of two extra-dry starch products, Merizet 116 and Merizet 118, with moisture contents of typically 5 and 7% respectively.
Australian egg industry is a cracker: report
08 February, 2012Australians are eating more eggs than ever. Statistics released by the Australian Egg Corporation reveal that egg consumption is up by 7% on last year.
TIC Gums’ TicaPAN coating agent line
06 February, 2012 | Supplied by: Alchemy Agencies Pty LtdAlchemy Agencies is distributing TIC Gums’ TicaPAN line of coating agents that are replacements for gum arabic.
Fungus threatening avocados
06 February, 2012A Queensland researcher has uncovered a pathogen that could have a devastating impact on the $180 million avocado industry.
Role of dairy fat in weight loss to be examined
05 January, 2012RMIT’s Professor John Hawley has secured a $520,000 grant from the Dairy Health and Nutrition Consortium to examine the role of dairy-rich products in weight loss.
$236,000 fine plus legal costs for company supplying Listeria-contaminated chicken
17 November, 2011
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.
