Food safety stories
The fresh capital will fund overseas expansion as the Singapore start-up pushes its waste-derived antimicrobial ingredient into new food and packaging markets.
Connected coolers are becoming a source of live market data, helping brands cut costs, improve safety and boost compliance across fleets.
Weekly inventory reporting at the mushroom biotech group has fallen from hours to 10 minutes after replacing seven Xero instances and spreadsheets.
Food retailers face avoidable spoilage, illness risk and regulatory exposure as most still rely on manual checks that miss cold-chain failures.
Families managing allergies can now scan foods in seconds, with the app flagging risks across more than 40 languages on Apple's App Store.
Cold-chain weaknesses are wasting at least $3.8 billion of food a year in Australia, with transport delays and handling gaps posing the biggest risks.
Visibility gaps are leaving most grocers unable to track day-to-day performance in fresh departments, despite broad confidence in results.
The new group could help New Zealand researchers turn lab breakthroughs into medicines, materials and cleaner industrial processes faster.
About 40 households in Mangaore have been told to boil water after two dead rats were found in a reservoir during a routine inspection.
Urban diners and wholesalers can now buy wild beef and Torres Strait lobster direct from remote Indigenous producers through Wild Foods' new platform.
WorkSafe's new guidance ties medical cover to site risks, meaning some New Zealand events may need more than basic first aid to protect crowds.
Supermarkets and hospitals could face spoiled stock and medicines after flaws in two widely used refrigeration controller platforms were disclosed.
Retailers attending Logile Connect 2026 will hear how linking labour, inventory and fresh operations could improve availability and margins.
Food businesses face refund losses and regulatory checks as AI-made complaints and images are increasingly used to allege food safety failings.
U.S. agencies can now train and keep control of AI models on isolated systems, with Palantir and NVIDIA targeting sensitive government work.
Older scanners may soon miss batch and expiry data as retailers are pushed to adopt 2D barcodes for better traceability and recalls.
It could speed repeat purchases for drivers by letting them order, pay and earn loyalty points without touching a phone.
Stable store links could help grocers curb outages, prioritise tills and gather data across sites as Cellhub rolls out a 5G managed service.
The spending will add 60 jobs in regional Victoria and bolster local supply chains as Mars expands Australian pet food production by 2027.
The funding will help the Toronto food technology company expand manufacturing and bring its precision-fermented cheese to pizzerias and cafés.
