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Rival beverage giant Lion invested in another leading kombucha brand Remedy earlier this year.
NEW PACKAGING WASTE TARGETS ANNOUNCED
The Australian Government joined industry leaders to announce new targets to reduce packaging waste by 2025 and improve recycling in Australia.
Hailed as a milestone event, leaders from packaging, retail, logistics, manufacturing, recycling and waste management businesses pledged to better manage packaging waste.
Part of the plan is new labelling to help consumers better understand how to recycle packaging.
FOOD PROCESSOR SNAPS UP IXL AND TAYLOR'S
A newly formed company Kyabram Conserves is to become the new owner of the IXL jam and Taylor's marinade and sauces following their sale by Coca-Cola Amatil's fruit and veggie processor SPC.
Kyabram Conserves is backed by Sydney-based fund and asset manager, Millinium
Capital Managers.
The IXL and Taylor’s products
will be processed locally at the
existing manufacturing site in Kyabram, in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley, and all 50 employees will be retained.
CCA announced its intention to sell
the brands in January, pointing to falling sales as consumers opted for less sugary breakfasts.
HONEY PURITY TESTS
IN QUESTION
Australian honey testing and the scandal over the purity of honey continued as a hot topic with the release of a new study that implicates local honey. The study found that almost one in five of 38 Australian honey samples sourced from supermarkets and markets had been adulterated with other non-honey substances.
The ACCC investigated claims that Capilano’s Allowrie blended imported and Australian honey products were adulterated but failed to find any evidence to support the allegation.
The ACCC is now urging the honey industry and the government to review testing standards and methods.
SEAFOOD SUSTAINABILITY ON TRACK
Australia’s seafood industry continues to make progress to keep commercial fisheries
well-managed and sustainable.
The Fisheries Research and
Development Corporation, a co-funded
partnership between the government and fishing and aquaculture
sectors, invested $855,000 into a
partnership of seafood experts to assist the industry to maintain market access.
Investment in SafeFish helps to provide safe seafood for Australian consumers by providing advice to help resolve technical trade impediments, in relation to food safety.
✷ OCTOBER
AMAZON AUSTRALIA MOVES INTO GROCERIES Amazon Australia announced its expansion into the groceries market and has added over
400 food and beverage brands to its local e-commerce offering.
Amazon's Pantry Food and Drinks is its 27th category in Australia, and the move comes ten months after the US e-commerce giant launched its retail and marketplace offering here.
SOLAR ABATTOIR FOR QUEENSLAND
The shift to renewable energy continues with a new abattoir that will be powered by solar and solar-fuelled hydrogen to be built in Gladstone, Queensland.
The solar farm will be constructed by Asia Pacific Agri-Corp to help control processing costs by turning surplus solar power and waste water into hydrogen.
WARNING LABELS TO BE MANDATORY ON ALCOHOL Alcohol beverage makers must label their products with warning labels relating to the risks of drinking during pregnancy following an agreement by ministers.
The move comes after six years of voluntary pregnancy labelling and two federal government surveys to measure uptake that showed only 75 per cent compliance.
ROUNDUP IN CANCER COUNCIL’S CROSSHAIRS Cancer Council Australia, Australia’s peak cancer body has called for an independent
review into the world’s most popular
weedkiller, Roundup.
The chemical glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has been linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and
has not been reviewed in more than 20 years. ✷
YEAR IN REVIEW
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