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AU: Fruit tattoos set to replace stickers and plastic packaging
ABC News: Tattoos on fruit are set to replace stickers as farmers seek out environmentally-friendly alternatives to labels for produce that already comes in its own natural packaging. Among those pursuing alternatives is Matthew Abbott from Rabbits Organics banana farm at Mena Creek in far-north Queensland.
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AU: What is organisational resilience and how is yours?
Australian government: Organisational resilience refers to a business’s ability to adapt and evolve as the global market is evolving, to respond to short term shocks—be they natural disasters or significant changes in market dynamics—and to shape itself to respond to long term challenges. Take the free organisational resilience HealthCheck.
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AU: Australia’s Indonesian community illegally selling food through Facebook
ABC: Despite Indonesia being one of Australia’s closest neighbours, there are very few Indonesian restaurants in our capital cities compared with Chinese, Japanese, and Thai. But thanks to social media, a lucrative ‘private’ trade in home-cooked meals for Indonesian expats is thriving.
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AU: Melbourne man has cyanide poisoning after self-medicating with apricot kernels
Huffington Post: Supplements, vitamins and other complementary medicines are a $3.5 billion industry in Australia, but one Melbourne man has highlighted the potentially life-threatening consequences of taking health fads and so-called “miracle diets” too far.
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US: Six reasons why your food safety culture sucks
LinkedIn: A poor food safety culture is perhaps the biggest risk factor that we tend to ignore. We continue to spend money on training when no one cares and preach food safety policy when no one is listening. Consider Marsha, a line operator who has been with your company for three years.
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US: Papaya Salmonella cases top 200; more farms implicated
Food Safety News: The victim count in ongoing Salmonella outbreaks traced to papayas from Mexico has topped 200, with U.S. officials not only reporting they linked two more farms to sick people, but that they expect to identify even more farms and victims.
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CA: Hepatitis A found in freshcut pineapple in British Columbia
Food Safety News: Anyone who has eaten Western Family brand freshcut pineapple in British Columbia recently is at risk of developing Hepatitis A and has an extremely limited amount of time to take the post-exposure vaccination for the virus.
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US: Role of Calibration in Maintaining Quality
Food Quality & Safety: Calibration plays a critical role in quality assurance and compliance for numerous industries, but it holds importance for process industries, such as the food and beverage industry, where strict controls are required.
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AU: Are We Better Informed On Science Than Ever? Most Aussies Think So
Huffington Post: Interestingly, when it comes to food safety, Australians are more concerned with the use of pesticides in farming than with genetic modification of produce. With close to two thirds of Aussies believing that eating foods grown using pesticides was generally unsafe, it’s no wonder the organic food market in Australia is growing at an exponential rate.
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UK: What food factory managers toss and turn over
NZ Food Technology News:A new British survey has found that food factory managers keep themselves awake at night worrying about five scenarios…
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