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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.
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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.
Read Article →AU: Allergen labelling
Food Standards Australia New Zealand: Most food allergies are caused by peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, sesame seeds, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat. The Food Standards Code requires these foods to be declared on labels whenever they are present as ingredients or as components of food additives or processing aids.
Read the full article at the Food Standards Australia New Zealand website
AU: Food fraud: High roller of the crime scene
The Weekly Times: You know fake food is lucrative when the mobsters ditch drugs and weapons to traffic it. Consider this: PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates food fraud is worth $52 billion globally each year.
Read the full article at The Weekly Times website
AU: Frozen berries Hepatitis A Virus outbreak fact sheet (2017)
An outbreak of foodborne illness attributed to hepatitis A virus (HAV) has taken place in Australia. At least four people have become infected. The source of the outbreak is 300 gram packs of Creative Gourmet Frozen Mixed Berries with a best-before date of 15 January 2021. This product was recalled nationally on 2nd June 2017 as a precaution.
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AU: Recall of frozen mixed berries product
​Food Standards Australia New Zealand: Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) today alerted consumers to a food recall of a frozen mixed berries product that is potentially linked to three hepatitis A cases.
Read Article →NZ: Food labelling sparks debate in Parliament
FreshPlaza: A fight nearly broke out in Parliament today over mandarins. On one side was Labour Party MP Damien O’Connor, saying that shoppers were being lied to about where their fruit came from. On the other was powerful Food and Grocery Council head, Katherine Rich, who is strongly against making it compulsory for companies to say where their food is from.
Read Article →AU: Survey finds high pesticide compliance rates for AU apples and pears
FreshPlaza: Results from the latest National Residue Survey for apples and pears have found a high compliance in the industry. The overall compliance rate in 2015-16 was 97.9 per cent for apples, up on 95.9 per cent in comparison with the previous year and 95.7 per cent for pears, which was slightly down in comparison with the previous year, which was 97.8 per cent.
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AU: Nominate now for the HARPS Technical Advisory Group (H-TAG)!
The Harmonised Australian Retailer Produce Scheme has been available for ALDI, Coles, Costco, Metcash/IGA and Woolworths direct suppliers of whole fruit, whole vegetables and nut-in-shell since last October 2016, with over 230 suppliers already certified.
HARPS is managed by a Stakeholder Working Group (SWG) comprising representatives of all the retailers and a project team. The SWG considers that it is now time to broaden the input into the development of HARPS […]
Read Article →TW: “OwlChain” Launched as the World’s First Food Blockchain Provenance System
PR Newswire: OwlTing, a leading e-commerce platform for safe food products that connects fine-quality food vendors and reputable local farmers in Taiwan, has successfully integrated Blockchain technologies into its supply chain infrastructure. The company today announced OwlChain, the world’s first Ethereum-based food provenance system.
Read the full story at the PR Newswire website