With headlines on climate change growing more alarming by the day, sustainability has never been more relevant for the FMCG industry.
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Dairy enzyme market boosted by demand for specialised products
Continued demand from cheese and yoghurt manufacturers, coupled with a desire to promote digestive health, promises a slew of opportunities in the dairy enzyme market, according to a new study.
Global
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Strong focus on salmon welfare lands Huon Aquaculture with RSPCA approval
Huon Aquaculture is the first seafood producer in Australia to join the RSPCA’s approved farming scheme for its focus on fish welfare.
Huon Aquaculture executive director Frances Bender said fish welfare
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Nestlé joins Global Coalition to advance animal welfare standards
Nestlé and six other food companies have joined forces, through the Global Coalition for Animal Welfare, to advance welfare standards throughout the global food supply chain.
The global coalition is an
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Nestlé to go cage egg free
Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, has announced its commitment to eliminate cages from its egg supply chain worldwide.
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Taste trumps animal welfare for free range egg consumers
Australian consumers who buy free range eggs are more likely to do so because they believe the eggs taste good than because they are concerned about animal welfare, according to new research.
In a paper
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NZ’s Ewing Poultry eggs get animal welfare approval
Ewing Poultry, a farm south of Nelson, is the latest to become SPCA Blue Tick approved for its free range and barn eggs sold throughout New Zealand.
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Australian Beef Sustainability Framework released for comment
The Red Meat Advisory Council has made available the draft Australian Beef Sustainability Framework for industry comment.
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New ISO specification for better management of animal welfare worldwide
The specification will help clear up discrepancies in the regulatory framework, especially in developing countries facilitating public-private partnerships for animal welfare policy.
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Farm animal welfare push for NZ consumers
New Zealand consumers concerned for the welfare of animals involved in food production are encouraged to pledge to ‘go SPCA Blue Tick’ to show their support for animal welfare.
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Choice launches free range egg app
Consumer group CHOICE has launched an app which provides consumers with an ‘augmented reality’ view of the various living conditions of birds categorised as ‘free range’.
The app comes in the wake
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Sunny Queen Farms commits to lower hen density for free range eggs
Sunny Queen Farms brand has committed to an outdoor hen density of no more than 1500 hens per hectare in their free range egg farms across Australia.
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City fringes locked in battles over broiler farms
As more chicken meat is produced, and in ever more technologically intensive ways, conflicts over farm applications inevitably unlock community disquiet about factory farming.
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Coles, Woolworths rank in middle of pack in global animal welfare report
Australia’s two major supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths have appeared for the first time in a global animal welfare report and ranked in the middle of the pack.
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Pork CRC set to sow animal welfare advances
Major progress and breakthroughs in pig and pork R&D have been made across all four of the CRC’s programs.
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Animal surveillance bill defeated in SA parliament
The South Australian parliament has rejected a bid to pass the Surveillance Devices Bill.
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Senate condemns farm trespassers
The Senate has passed a motion condemning covert filming on farms by trespassers.
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Nestle announces global animal welfare commitment
Nestle has announced a major pledge to improve the welfare of animals within its supply chain.
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VIC to increase farmer protection against animal activists
Victoria may introduce legislation that will provide more protection for farmers against animal rights activists.
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Fire destroys $100k of livestock at a central QLD piggery
A piggery in central QLD has lost $100k of livestock in an early morning fire in a farrowing shed.
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