Fruit Juice Australia has slammed a report that describes apple juice to be as sugary as Coca-Cola and warns consumers to limit consumption.

The NSW Government has offered food processor Simplot a payroll tax rebate for the next three years to save the company's plant at Bathurst.

Murray Goulburn, maker of Devondale, Liddell's, Kiewa Country and Cobram Specialty Cheese brands, will cut 72 staff across its processing facilities.

Another NZ safety scare has prompted the country's Ministry for Primary Industry to explore new safety measures for the dairy sector.

South Australian brewer Coopers has opened its own alehouse at Sydney Airport's T2 domestic terminal which will sell Coopers products exclusively to thirsty travellers.

Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has secured the Australian rights to a number of premium beer brands in a deal with international brewer, Molson Coors.

Patties Foods has reported a sharp fall in profit following a write-down on its frozen fruit business.

Fonterra has announced that Gary Romano, the dairy company's MD of NZ Milk Products - the business unit responsible for the whey protein botulism scare - has resigned.

Construction of a $40 million long life milk facility, a joint venture between Freedom Foods Group and Australian Consolidated Milk, is underway at Shepparton in northern Victoria.

Woolworths has signed up SPC Ardmona as the new supplier of its Woolworths Select canned apricots, peaches, apples and pears.

JBS Australia and Primo have signed on with Foodbank to launch a beef initiative to provide welfare agencies with more than 130 tonnes of sausages every year.

The Australian government has confirmed that no consumer products have been affected in the Australian marketplace by Fonterra's whey protein contamination issue.

Local food companies and safety professionals have been named as awards finalists by organisers of the 20th Australian HACCP Conference.

One of Australia's largest meat processing companies hopes to take a slice out of its carbon bill with a biogas project that will turn its waste water into energy.

The NT government will reinstate a container deposit scheme (CDS) it placed on hold earlier this year, and the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) is not impressed.

As the genetically modified health debate rages on, Kathy Cogo from Australian Organic explains the reasoning behind its zero tolerance stance.