FoodLegal Bulletin June-July 2011, Foreword

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Welcome to this June-July 2011 bumper issue of FoodLegal Bulletin.

This issue of FoodLegal Bulletin begins with the FREE article telling “A Tale of Two Governments” and recent food security policy announcements at the Federal and State levels and commenting on some red issues that need to be addressed.

Our second FREE article on Current Developments in Food Law and Policy in Australia and Elsewhere targets the latest legal and policy developments in the food and beverage industries.

Our article on FSANZ’s “Code Maintenance” changes released for public comment in May highlights issues that may affect many food and beverage companies and we alert you to a number of surprises.

Our article Slimming Claims and Substantiation of Weight Loss Claims considers how developments in the EU may impact on similar issues that are being now discussed in Australia.

Our article on GM adventitious presence looks at legal issues and possible solutions and remedies associated with the cross pollination of GM crops with non-GM or organic crops.

Our article “Plastics in Food: Natural Migration or Border Jumping” is about chemical migration from packaging to food in light of recent food safety scandals around the world. The article examines Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) surveys and questions FSANZ’s methodologies.

Following the recent E.Coli outbreak in German and in other contexts, we examine the FSANZ proposed processing safety food standard for the horticultural industry in our article “European E.coli puts spotlight on Australian horticultural regulation and practices: Irradiation no longer old hat?”.

FoodLegal will be running a symposium on 10^th October 2011 in Sydney on marketing laws and opportunities relating to functional foods, special purpose foods, dietary supplements and complementary medicines. Please diarize it. More details to be released very soon.

Happy reading!

Joe Lederman