News: Roundup of food news from June and July

The Food Advisor team would like to send another thank you to our users for tolerating the various issues with the app over the past couple of months. The most recent update (check the App Store on your iPhone for it if you haven’t already) seems to have resolved the issues, so – TOUCH WOOD [...]

July 20, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: News  No Comments

News: Victorian farmers question benefits of GM crops after 3 years

There is a great article on GM crops in Victoria in today’s The Age. It provides a clear overview of the issues around the use of the crops, as well as benefits and criticisms. About 20% of Victoria’s canola crop this year will be GM; that’s 40,000 hectares.
Read the article – ‘The seeds of discontent’ [...]

May 12, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: News  One Comment

News: Roundup of food news for April

April brought some pretty big news for the Food Advisor community. Remember you can follow us on Twitter (@FoodAdvisorAU) for regular updates, and here’s a roundup of some of April’s happenings:

Scores on doors to be trialled in NSW – from July this year it will be mandatory for NSW restaurants and food businesses to display their [...]

April 30, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: News  No Comments

News: Pulitzer Prize for NYT food safety report

Reporter Michael Moss and New York Times staff were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting last week for their work exposing oversights in US food safety regulations which allowed E. coli contamination to occur ground beef burgers. Moss profiled one particularly sad and awful case of a 22-year-old woman who became paralysed from the waist [...]

April 19, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: News  No Comments

News: Roundup of food news for March

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Here’s a roundup of March’s food news from around the world:

The New York Times reports the City will soon require restaurants to display letter grades issued to them by city safety inspectors. There are [...]

March 31, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: News  No Comments

News: Eat Safe Brisbane information sessions for business owners

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Brisbane City Council will hold information sessions throughout April for food businesses to learn more about the upcoming Eat Safe program. The sessions will be held at various locations in the council area, some [...]

March 22, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: News  No Comments

News: Serious fines for Brisbane area restaurants breaching food safety standards

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Last month we heard that Brisbane City and Logan Councils in Queensland will soon implement Eat Safe, a program where restaurants must advertise the star rating they receive after hygiene and safety inspections. These [...]

March 8, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: News  No Comments

News: Qld councils to publicly rate food businesses for food hygiene and safety

There is some great news for food consumers in Queensland this week –  Brisbane City Council will be the first council in the state to introduce a rating system for eateries based on food hygiene and safety standards. The scheme is called Eat Safe and today’s Courier-Mail says:
“High-end restaurants through to bakeries and the local [...]

February 17, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: News  One Comment

Health food aisle label concerns – news article

A member of our team caught an interesting article in the weekend papers warning supermarket health food aisles are increasingly stocked with sugary, fattening snacks containing as many as 16 food additives.
There’s input from consumer group Choice, nutritionists and the Australian Food and Grocery Council among others in the article, but for more information you [...]

February 9, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: News  No Comments