Operation Trident has been in place since 2007, as one of the key parts of the New South Wales government’s black market seafood crackdown.It includes covert operations and surveillance along the whole NSW coast. It is being done by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and is focussed on oysters primarily, and dismantling the black

The global market research company Innova Market Insights has just released it’s top ten food related predictions for 2015. Increasing “natural” marketing. Although there isn’t , as yet, an agreed international definition for the word “natural”, around 25 percent of the product launches in 2014 had labelling that declared it was either natural or emphasised

Food safety has been a big thing in 2014, especially in the USA. At the beginning of this year, the two brothers who owned Jensen Farms actually served six months each in home detention as a result of the Listeria outbreak on rockmelons a couple of years previously. Interestingly, the prosecution did not have to

The 01 March 2016 will mark the cessation of the current Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. It will be immediately replaced with the new version which was released this week. Once it has been given the final approval by the next meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation, and