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Two companies have made further inroads into the everyday baking category with new ranges.

Dr. Oetker has 10 new products for at-home bakers on offer, while vanilla brand Queen will soon release seven new products with a focus on flavour and origin.

Dr. Oetker's Surprise Inside Cupcake Centres offer a filling for cakes and pastries in a ready-to-squeeze packet. The product is available in chocolate, salted caramel and lemon flavours, each with enough filling for 12 cupcakes.

The Sprinkles range also has two new additions: Salted Caramel Crunch and Sour Strands.

For beginner decorators, there is the Ready Rolled Icing Disc, which can be rolled over a 20cm round cake.

As for Queen, there are two new Ready to Roll Icing products which now fall under the Dr. Oetker brand name.

Other new additions include a new Designer Icing in chocolate, Edible Mini Wafer Flowers for decorating, and new single-serve Mug Cakes.

Queen has also added a range of premium, single origin vanilla products for bakers, including Madagascan Vanilla Bean Paste with Seeds.

Packaging News

New European rules on generic environmental claims have prompted the Australasian Bioplastics Association to warn that packaging carrying poorly substantiated claims could be marketed in Australia.

Australia's environment ministers have declared packaging reform urgent and named soft plastics as an initial priority, but offered no firm timetable or regulatory commitments. SPSA has welcomed the soft plastics focus, while Boomerang Alliance and WMRR have raised concerns about the lack of concrete action.

Economic analysis commissioned by SPSA estimates national recycling reforms could deliver up to $278m in net productivity gains and stimulate up to $2.6b in capital investment each year.