Published: Aug 11, 2012

Product informationProduct descriptionMint TR Kuru Nane (Tr) (dried mint)Identifying features200g clear sealed plastic packet with label on front.Best Before: 08/08/2013Batch Code: KHV260813APN/EAN: 0200036002003What are the hazards?Food products contamin

Published: Aug 10, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

The Australian beverage industry has come out strongly against claims made by an environmental lobby group that drink makers are benefiting from a newly introduced ‘container tax.’

Published: Aug 10, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Australian dairy co-operative Murray Goulburn plans to invest approximately A$200m ($211m, €172m) over the next three years on expanding and updating its manufacturing capabilities.

Published: Aug 10, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Nestlé Australia has ordered tests on its recently re-formulated Nestlé NAN H.A. 1 Gold infant formula after it received a number of complaints from parents that the 'new, improved' product was making their children ill.

Published: Aug 10, 2012

Professional fishers say an extended ban on gillnet fishing to protect the Australian sea lion has been counterproductive.

Published: Aug 10, 2012

Australia’s first drive-thru supermarket was launched today by Woolworths.

Published: Aug 10, 2012

New research released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and business research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan shows that the growth of online shopping is forcing structural changes to the Australian retailing business model.

Published: Aug 10, 2012

Australia’s leading vegetable industry body AUSVEG has raised concerns regarding a draft of the Migration Amendment Bill 2012 released this week by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, the Hon. Chris Bowen MP.

Published: Aug 10, 2012

Grand Foods has recalled Mint Tr Kuru Nane (Tr) – dried mint from Grand Foods retail outlet in Campbellfield, VIC due to Salmonella contamination.

Published: Aug 09, 2012 By: Nathan Gray

Children who consume a healthy diet during childhood may have slightly higher IQ scores than those who are fed on diets of unhealthy diets of ‘junk food’, according to new research.

Published: Aug 09, 2012

The Australian blue mussels producer Kinkawooka Shellfish has successfully passed Friend of the Sea sustainability audit and its products display now the international ecolabel.

Published: Aug 09, 2012

Technologists at Guala Closures Australia have developed Australia’s first screw-cap for sparkling wines.

Published: Aug 09, 2012

Australian major supermarket group Woolworths is expanding its insurance range of products for marketing to its customers.

Published: Aug 09, 2012

Australian cultured butters are emerging as new boutique products in gourmet foods.

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Nicholas Robinson

A video showing an Australian pork producer and his employees mistreating their pigs has been sent to the pork producer organisation Australian Pork Limited (APL).

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

Australia and New Zealand’s food standards regulator is calling for submissions on an application seeking to adopt World Health Organization (WHO) limits for chemicals in packaged water in the region.

Published: Aug 08, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Foster’s Group has hit out at complaints leveled at its Victoria Bitter (VB) brand Facebook page and upheld by the Australian Advertising Standards Board (ASB), arguing that brands are accountable for user comments as 'advertisements'.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

The United Kingdom had a lamb flatbread sandwich. Switzerland got the “McZuri”, a veal burger. Now, Australia will get a Serious Lamb Burger, according to news reports.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

The Australian Government’s food standards agency, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), has called for submissions about adopting World Health Organization (WHO) limits for chemicals in packaged water sold in Australia.

Published: Aug 08, 2012

Australian dietitians and cardio-nutritionists are calling on the National Health and Medical Research Council to include polyunsaturated fats as a necessary new food group.