Although this website is primarily concerned with Food safety, it is also a good place to let food businesses know about related useful information.
Pro-Visual Publishing has released their latest free Hospitality Industry poster. They produce food safety ones for different segments of the food industry, but this latest is the ‘Hospitality Industry Guide to Safety’.
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With the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health Survey showing an increase in obesity in Australia, there are calls to have legislation or mandatory programs to try and control or reduce this trend.
Melbourne City Council has designed the “green light, eat right” program as one way of having the businesses in food courts address …
According to figures from the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) there are 30.2 cases of Salmonella for every 100,000 New Zealanders. The NZFSA has introduced a plan to reduce this figure.
NZFSA Principal Advisor (Risk Management) Judi Lee says “Salmonella is recognised as one of the 3 most important pathogens in New Zealand, second only …
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, oats, barley and rye, and is therefore very commonly found in most food businesses.
It is recognised as one of the food allergens in the Food Standards Code, and is now the most common of the food allergens in Australia. Most retail food businesses now carry at least one …
Campylobacter jejuni is a common source of food poisoning in Australia, and is in fact, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the leading cause of food borne illness in the USA.
It is commonly associated with eating uncooked food, especially chicken and beef, or by drinking water contaminated by faeces.
It is the cause of …
This is one of the growth areas in the food industry. It involves the inclusion of extremely small (1,000 of them stacked together would be approximately the thickness of a piece of office paper) specialized particles in the food to provide specific benefits.
This technology is already commonly used in medicines and skin care, as well …
New research from the USA by the Rutgers Food Policy Institute has shown that only about 60 per cent of the studied sample reported having looked for recalled food in their homes ever, and only 10 per cent said they had ever actually found a recalled food product in their home.
“Despite widespread awareness of recent …
Of the many issues affecting the food industry today, one of the most influential is obesity and what businesses can do to reduce their potential impact on this increasing trend.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the National Health Survey of 2007-08 on 11 May 2009. The last in depth survey of this level was done …
In the last week 23 more premises were added to the NSW Food Authority’s Name and Shame list. This brings the total to 547 premises and a total of 922 fines. NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said that “the site is on track to register a thousand infringements in its first year, as was …
Continue reading ...The Coalition on Food Advertising to Children (CFAC) which includes; the Australian Medical Association, Choice and the Cancer Council, is a coalition of parents, health and community groups, has called for the regulations for junk food advertisements to be tightened.
This call has come after CFAC released figures showing that if children watch two hours of …