The Restaurant of the Year was named recently in the Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine Australian Restaurant Guide Awards. For 2012 it is Sydney’s Marque Restaurant. It is true that one person’s best of something may not be another’s, but it does give an important guide for many of us to think and talk about. There …
Continue reading ...Dear Stakeholders Please find below information on a recent Australian consumer level food recall and is included here with permission from Food Standards Australia New Zealand. This information is also available on our website at www.foodstandards.gov.au Date Notified To FSANZ: 19 August 2011 Food Type: Baby food Product Name: Rafferty’s Garden Italian Lasagne Premium Baby …
Continue reading ...If a private member’s bill by both Senator Nick Xenophon and Bob Katter passes through the new session of the Australian Federal Parliament, supermarkets will be required to show what percentage of the price of their fresh produce actually goes to the farmers who grow the food. The bill is called the Farm Gate Pricing …
Continue reading ...Genetic modification is the process of manipulating the genes of a species to achieve desired characteristics. It can be the adding of a gene from carrots to white rice to significantly increase the Vitamin A content of that rice and thus improving the nutrient intake of a large portion of the consumers of rice. It …
Continue reading ...A recent article in the Journal of Food Protection®, has highlighted that the roughness of a stainless steel surface has an impact on the adherence of bacteria like E.coli. Food Grade stainless steel is the material of choice for food contact surfaces due to it’s ability to withstand the conditions in food environments and still …
Continue reading ...A pilot study published in the online July issue of Psychopharmacology has highlighted that even though decaffeinated coffee has no caffeine, there are antioxidants properties that can benefit the drinker’s mood. The study was done on healthy elderly people in Lausanne, Switzerland, by the Nestle Research Center. The decaffeinated coffee contained differing amounts of chlorogenic …
Continue reading ...A team of scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) are working to determine the cause of cheese spoilage by using genomic sequencing of microbial organisms. This will mean that the microbes that cause cheese to spoil will be genetically identified. The project will involve isolating samples of the DNA and …
Continue reading ...The US’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been relying upon serving size figures that are now 40years old and there is a strong push for a revision to be done. There is also an increasing pressure to mandate serving sizes. The reason is that food labels now have serving size figures that do not …
Continue reading ...The following is a media release from Food Standards Australia New Zealand and is included here with it’s permission. Celebrating years of ensuring safer food Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) today celebrated 20 years of ensuring safer food for Australia and New Zealand at a special event at Old Parliament House Canberra. Opening Watching …
Continue reading ...The biggest and most important Cocktail Awards in the world, has just announced a bar in Darlinghurst in Sydney, Eau de Vie, as the World’s Best New Cocktail Bar for 2011. This is huge, as the rest of the bars in the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards are all from New York. The owner …
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