Have you read a food label lately? Even if you know what all of the ingredients are, food labels can be misleading. With the marketing of popular food trends, food ...

It proposed two new labels — “Made in Australia from mostly local ingredients ... Graingrowers president said he expected the food manufacturing and grocery industry would object on ...

After a two-year phase-in period, new country-of-origin food labelling laws come into full effect in July. The labels clearly spell out where food is from, and which foods are grown, produced or ...

Research points to several suggestions to optimise the design of food labels in Australia. First, if the Health Star Rating scheme were made mandatory, it would help people compare the healthiness ...

But even if it was finally proven once and for all to hail from New Zealand, Aussies would surely still label it Australian food. Pavlova is a popular meringue-based dessert that has a crisp crust ...

but most packaged goods should display a panel set by the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. The label should also state where the food was produced and which company has marketed it.

Picture: Ray Strange. Entrepreneur Dick Smith, whose name is synonymous with “Australian made”, said keeping information off food labels was a no-brainer for big corporations “If you’re ...

The Australian Food and Grocery Council said the familiar daily intake guides on food labels represented a $72 million industry investment that provided consumers with accurate and easily ...

Most food products have to state whether they were grown, produced, made or packed in Australia or overseas. This is called 'country of origin labelling' and, before 2016, the regulations around these ...

A new study has revealed Australians are wasting food because of unclear date labels and storage advice. About one-third of all food in Australia is either lost or discarded every year. Use-by ...

Potential allergens must be declared on Australian food labels when they are present as ingredients or as components of food additives or processing aids. PAL is voluntary and uses statements such ...

Removing "best before" labels from these foods alone will reduce waste by an estimated 50,000 tonnes a year. In Australia we produce 7.6 million tonnes of food waste every year — about 300 ...