FoodLegal Bulletin, May, 2005 >>
| 1. | Fortification of Food: To Do or Not To Do - That is the Question With the growing range of various vitamins, minerals and health supplements available to be added to foods such as natural or herbal extracts, animal by-products, enzymes, amino acids, probiotics, prebiotics, fibre, ATP and ubiquinones to name a few, it is no wonder that fortification is the subject of current discussion and potential future innovation. Read more >> |
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| 2. | Costly Recall on Allergy Alert A report to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) on 7 March 2005 of an undeclared allergen in pasta is an example of s food recall caused by an undeclared component. In this case the offending ingredient was Walnut Oil and was sufficient to initiate a costly product recall procedure. Read more >> |
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| 3. | Juice Bars Face Barred Juice On 11 May 2005, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that Berri Limited was being compelled to correct the claims made by Berri about various products in its bottles "enhanced" fruit juice ranges,, including the "Superjuice", "Free Zone", "Kickstart" and "Immune" juice products. The claims to contain certain "shots" of wheat grass and barley grass were also proven to be incorrect both in terms of the volumes needed and the fact that they were made from concentrates not in conformity with the nutritional panel description. Read more >> |
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| 4. | The Case for a Trade Practices Challenge - Against the Supermarket Majors The major supermarket chains are sailing close to the wind under the Trade Practices Act laws that prohibit anti-competitive business practices. Supermarket policies to develop and expand new ranges of house brand products and give these preferential treatment over the branded products of other suppliers will reduce competition in the market-place. Read more >> |
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