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What is the Economic Impact of Food Waste in Australia?
Due to food waste, the Australian economy loses more than 36 billion dollars each year. Fifty per cent of this is due to household food waste ($2,000 to $2,500 per year). Aside from those huge financial losses, food waste also puts a strain on waste processing and landfills. After all, landfills and waste processing also require money to run...
What are the Food Safety Standards in Australia?
Food businesses have to adhere to food safety standards. Aside from compliance, this is essential for protecting the consumers from food poisoning. This also helps businesses maintain quality in their products and processes. What are the food safety standards in Australia? Food safety standards often include the following: Food labelling Storing, handling and serving food safely Food recalls Food...
What is Refrigerated Logistics?
Refrigerated logistics is a set of processes and regulations on how to safely transport and store perishable or sensitive goods in a temperature-controlled environment. In other words, it’s about keeping the products cool during transport or storage. What is refrigerated logistics? We can also define it as moving refrigerated goods from one place to another (refrigerated transport is the...
Reducing Food Waste in the Supply Chain
Each year, food waste costs the Australian economy more than 36 billion dollars. This is equivalent to more than 7 million tonnes of food wasted across the consumption and supply chain. This was reported by Food Innovation Australia Limited (link to source paper). As a result, it’s critical to reduce food waste. This way, higher amounts of food products...
Why is the Cold Chain Important?
The cold chain is important in protecting perishable products throughout the supply chain (from production, processing, transport and distribution). Here, temperature should be strictly regulated to protect products from discolouration, degradation and spoilage. Why is the cold chain important? Cold chain is important in maintaining the following: Product quality Product safety (safe for consumption or other uses) Business profitability...
Safe Transport of Organic Produce
It’s estimated that more than half of Australian households now buy organic food (either frequently or occasionally). Also, consumer demand for organic food is growing at 20 to 30 per cent per year. In other words, for the coming years there will be more demand for organic produce and food products. In addition, each Australian household that’s already buying...
Food Industry Trends 2023
To help food services and other enterprises that sell food and food products get ready for what’s about to come, it’s good to know some of the trends in the industry (especially when it comes to inflation and consumer preferences). This way, you can better plan ahead and adapt your business to better service your customers. Price increase of...
How to Improve Cold Chain Management and Reduce Waste
Food waste in Australia often happens because of poor temperature management, according to a study published by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Food and food products can be exposed outside of a safe temperature range during handling, transport and storage. This results in waste worth billions of dollars each year (a conservative estimate is around $3.8 billion). ...
What is Causing the Supply Chain Issues?
Supply chain disruptions affect the availability and pricing of products. This also financially affects producers, processors and distributors. For example, if a product is unavailable and there’s high demand for it, businesses lose out on the revenue. What is causing the supply chain issues? It’s a global problem which has been made worse by geopolitics, international conflict, local China...
What is a Cold Chain?
A cold chain is a supply chain network that involves the handling, transport and distribution of temperature-sensitive products such as perishable foods, vaccines and medicines. Tight temperature control is critical here to safeguard the safety, quality and integrity of those products. About the cold food chain In Australia, cold food chain plays a huge role because most food products...
