The following is a media release from the Food Safety Information Council Ltd and is included here with permission. The Food Safety Information Council today launched their back to school and work lunchbox food safety advice. Council Chair, Rachelle Williams, said that preparing your own lunch is proving popular as Council research shows that 94

Nanoparticles are now a common ingredient in many products, including sunscreen and, of course, food. Silver is recognised as having antimicrobial properties and is now beginning to appear not in food but it’s packaging. It is just one of the nanoparticles which are now in increasingly common use. Other ingredients are also added to food

Good or bad? Should you use them or not? A UK restaurant has recently been fined 50 000 pounds for using wooden boards which were considered to be be very dirty and had not been washed thoroughly. It is well known that wooden boards should not be used in food preparation within the food industry,

It is the start of a new year and we have just finished a season of seafood, turkey and roast pork. But will that always be the case? Aussie love meat and especially red meat and chicken, and, at certain times of the year, seafood rules. Animal meat is recognised as an environmentally expensive ,