The new Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) for Australia's food packaging was given the final go-ahead by commonwealth, state and territory consumer affairs ministers this week. Each label will indicate the proportion of Australian ...
Tags: Country of Origin, CoOL, Green Light, Food packaging
Future food labelling and product safety laws could be scrapped if legal pressure from multinational companies increases as a result of clauses within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Consumer advocacy group Choice has ...
Tags: Food Label, TPP, Product safety laws
Organic meat company Cleaver's has updated its packaging design to include more information about how its meat was produced. Cleaver’s, which is owned by Arcadian Organic & Natural Meat Company, wanted its new branding to address ...
Tags: Cleaver, Packaging design, Beef
A report released by the Australian Parliament’s joint standing committee on Northern Australia last week is recommending that all food-service industry providers be forced to declare the country of origin (CoOL) of seafood served. ...
Consumers are looking for resealable packaging that keeps their fresh produce even fresher, according to a report by Mintel. The Mintel report, called Locavore: Attitudes toward Locally-sourced Foods, concluded that consumers wanted fresh ...
Tags: resealable packaging, Mintel, Packaging
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has this week been finalised after negotiations began in 2010. The TPP centers on a free trade zone between 12 countries located around the Pacific rim including Australia, the US, New Zealand, ...
The Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) met in Hobart today and considered a range of food regulation matters. The Forum comprises all Australian and New Zealand Ministers responsible for food ...
Tags: food regulation, food safety
Australian Made Campaign welcomes delay and more consultation on Country of Origin labels The Australian Made Campaign has welcomed the Government’s decision to consult with stakeholders and undertake consumer research into its ...
Tags: Made Campaign, consumer demand, Agriculture
It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
Tags: FSANZ, dietary supplements, Food
The European Parliament has backed plans to create a new meat labeling regulation in processed foods. The new law, when put into force, will require food producers to mention the country of origin of meat used as an ingredient in ...
Australian vegetable growers have said they support the Australian Greens’ Party Leader Christine Milne’s push for clearer Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) on food, claiming that the current system needs refining if consumers ...
Tags: food industry, Agriculture
New food and drink labels would be introduced across Europe as per the new European rules that will come into effect from 13 December 2014. In response to the new rules, food and drink manufacturers are making wide-ranging changes to ...
Tags: drink labels, vegetable oils
A new study has revealed that more than half of the consumers in New Zealand are confused by food package labels. The study 'Country of Origin Labelling and the New Zealand Seafood Industry' published in a text book by Cambridge ...
Tags: Food Labels, package labels
China is Australia's number two source of vegetable imports. Yet, vegetables from China are not always labelled as such. Why does that matter? Because data recently released by the Communist Party of China indicates that 19.4%, or ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Packaging, Label
Textiles and apparel from Ukraine are likely to get tariff exemption in the EU market from as early as May this year, as the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament has backed a plan to remove tariffs on imports from ...