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AU: Food fraud: Local scandal on olive swap
Weekly Times Now: A producer has been accused of buying olives and olive oil from Europe, putting his brand on them and then selling it as Australian-grown. The grower also allegedly suggested to other producers they could make “serious money” doing the same thing.
Read the full article at the Weekly Times Now website
NZ: Organic Aotearoa New Zealand field day highlights need for regulation of produce
NZ Herald: Hawke’s Bay was chosen to showcase the need for a regulated national standard for organic produce on Friday. Organic Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) hosted a field day for Parliament’s primary production select committee.
Read the full article at the NZ Herald website
NZ: Businesses paying for unnecessary food safety courses
NZ Herald: Some Far North food businesses are paying significant sums of money to training providers only to find they still don’t meet new rules set by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
Read the full article at the NZ Herald website
AU: Call for submissions on genetically modified potato lines.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand: Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) today called for submissions on an application to permit food from a number of genetically modified potato lines.
Read Article →AU: ACCC to crack down on product labelling
mybusiness: Businesses are being urged to carefully review their country of origin labelling as the ACCC prepares to crack down on false or misleading statements. It comes ahead of changes to the legal requirements of country of origin labelling which will come into force in the 2018/19 financial year.
Read the full article at mybusiness.com.au
UK: What it would look like if your banana, strawberries, and coffee came with an ingredient list?
Business Insider UK: Marketers often feed off consumer concerns that “human-made” chemicals are bad. But the fact is that all foods, and everything around us, are made up of chemicals, whether they occur in nature or are made in a lab.
Read the full article at the Business Insider UK website
AU: Frozen berries scare prompts industry to urge “eat local”
Good Fruit & Vegetables: LAST week’s recall of Creative Gourmet frozen berries over another hepatitis A contamination has prompted the local industry to highlight the quality of Australian produce. The Fresh Produce Safety Centre (FPSC) Australia – New Zealand released a fact sheet on the product recall, answering common questions about the situation.
Read the full article on the Good Fruit & Vegetables website
Read Article →US: The future of food traceability
Food Safety Magazine: So what’s on the horizon for food traceability? Let’s look at consumers, the food supply itself and technology.
Read the full article at the Food Safety Magazine website
NZ: Chinese food safety standards up with the best: NZ berry grower
Stuff: David Berry is a man on a mission – to change the negative view people have of Chinese food safety standards. The United Kingdom-based Kiwi is the owner of a berry processing plant in Shandong province which has been caught up in food scares related to other berry exporters, although none of his products have ever been recalled.
Read the full article at stuff.co.nz
Read Article →AU: New country of origin food labelling laws – free webinar for businesses
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission: Does your business grow, produce, manufacture, distribute, import or sell food? Do you know how the new Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard applies to you? Join the ACCC’s Deputy Chair, Dr Michael Schaper, along with representatives from the Voice of Horticulture and the Australian Food & Grocery Council at 6:30pm on Thursday 22 June AEST for a free webinar on the new law.
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