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This year’s Food and Grocery Executive Program, run by the Institute of Food and Grocery Management, will be held from September 23-28 at the Mt Eliza Centre for Executive Education in Victoria, Australia.
A year-long Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) study looking at chemical residues in fresh, unwashed produce indicates that New Zealand growers are largely following good agricultural practice (GAP) in how they use chemicals.
In the wake of television show Fair Go exposing the poor quality of extra virgin olive oils in the New Zealand market, the latest evaluation of olive oils by MAF Food Safety has found 10% of samples contained non-compliant spray residues.
A tiny Asian beetle could spell big trouble for California’s avocado industry.
The European Union has announced the list of health claims that will be permitted for foods sold in the region in future.
DineAid has announced that food manufacturer and distributor Goodman Fielder has signed a three year deal to support the initiative as its principal sponsor.
Green Party agriculture spokesman Steffan Browning has expressed concerns about the deal being done to secure a place in the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Researchers at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have identified 20% as the rate at which a tax needs to be applied to junk food if it is to be an effective tool for reducing obesity.
A sign perhaps that the age of the celebrity chef is all pervasive, as American food corporation Kellogg is found to be stealing from Chicago kitchen giant Grant Achatz.
Auckland-based meat traders to top end restaurants, and oasis of market intelligence in the butchery business, Neat Meat has dominated the 2012 Steak of Origin Awards held at Feilding Agri-Stadium this week.
According to the scientists, we could all eat a lot less chicken and deliver a huge boost to the health of the planet. Such a development could possibly have some buy-in from the chickens as well, especially if it were to mean an end to the barbaric industrial farming methods used to grow them and their eggs.
During every journey, it helps to pause and look back occasionally, to appreciate how far you have come.
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