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Industrial Transformation Training Centres - Grant ID: IC160100025
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,259,000.00
Summary
ARC Training Centre in Food Safety in the Fresh Produce Industry. ARC Training Centre in Food Safety in the Fresh Produce Industry. This centre aims to create an innovation platform of food safety researchers and industry personnel who can significantly advance the safety of fruit and vegetables in Australia. The intended outcomes are safer food, leading to enhanced health and wellbeing; industry growth in the food/agribusiness sector; enhanced trust and international reputation; and increased a ....ARC Training Centre in Food Safety in the Fresh Produce Industry. ARC Training Centre in Food Safety in the Fresh Produce Industry. This centre aims to create an innovation platform of food safety researchers and industry personnel who can significantly advance the safety of fruit and vegetables in Australia. The intended outcomes are safer food, leading to enhanced health and wellbeing; industry growth in the food/agribusiness sector; enhanced trust and international reputation; and increased access to growing export markets. Intended benefits to industry are ready-to-use technologies for strengthened food safety, and a new generation of highly-skilled food safety scientists with experience in conducting industry-focused research.Read moreRead less
Industrial Transformation Training Centres - Grant ID: IC140100024
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,061,605.00
Summary
ARC Training Centre for Innovative Horticultural Products. ARC Training Centre for Innovative Horticultural Products. The Australian food industry, and the fresh produce sector in particular, offers enormous opportunities for growth and diversification through development of innovative new products that are safe, convenient, affordable and healthy. The Training Centre will develop fresh foods with improved shelf life and sensory quality, through a suite of food science and market analysis projec ....ARC Training Centre for Innovative Horticultural Products. ARC Training Centre for Innovative Horticultural Products. The Australian food industry, and the fresh produce sector in particular, offers enormous opportunities for growth and diversification through development of innovative new products that are safe, convenient, affordable and healthy. The Training Centre will develop fresh foods with improved shelf life and sensory quality, through a suite of food science and market analysis projects relevant to the horticultural supply chains of Woolworths supermarket. A new model for researcher training, integrating formal course-work and workplace-integrated learning, will deliver professionals who are industry relevant, understand food product innovation and have a trans-disciplinary approach to delivering products that satisfy market demand.Read moreRead less
Biofilm responses to cold atmospheric plasma . This project is focused on understanding the interaction of cold atmospheric plasmas with biofilms, with the aim of biofilm eradication and ultimately offering an environmentally friendly alternative to current detergents and antibiotics. The research expects to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of action for breakthrough plasma intervention technologies, which are sufficiently active to cope with the resistant nature of biofilms, yet are of low ....Biofilm responses to cold atmospheric plasma . This project is focused on understanding the interaction of cold atmospheric plasmas with biofilms, with the aim of biofilm eradication and ultimately offering an environmentally friendly alternative to current detergents and antibiotics. The research expects to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of action for breakthrough plasma intervention technologies, which are sufficiently active to cope with the resistant nature of biofilms, yet are of low energy, do not adversely affect surface properties and critically leave no residual chemistry. This should provide significant benefits by delivering a new method to tackle the ubiquitous problem of biofilm contamination in food, water and medical areas.Read moreRead less
Flexible and Printable Sensors for Early Detection of Food Spoilage . This project aims to develop a technological platform for the fabrication of flexible sensors that enable the detection of food spoilage and life threatening microbial contamination. By engineering stimuli-responsive inks, colorimetric, chemiresistive, and impedimetric sensor arrays will be printed on flexible plastics and paper substrates. The printed sensor arrays will respond to gases and volatile compounds generated from f ....Flexible and Printable Sensors for Early Detection of Food Spoilage . This project aims to develop a technological platform for the fabrication of flexible sensors that enable the detection of food spoilage and life threatening microbial contamination. By engineering stimuli-responsive inks, colorimetric, chemiresistive, and impedimetric sensor arrays will be printed on flexible plastics and paper substrates. The printed sensor arrays will respond to gases and volatile compounds generated from food deterioration and spoilage, microbial pathogen, temperature and pH by a change in their colour or electrical properties, hence providing real-time measurements. The project will enable to design efficient data-driven decision making tools along the supply chain to enhance food safety and reduce food waste. Read moreRead less
Shell Life Evaluation Of Semi-dried Vacuumed Pack Mullet
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$2,471.00
Summary
Objectives: 1. Investigate current production methods and their effects on shelf life eg. time, temperature of drying 2. Investigate the shelf life of the current product 3. Identify methods to extend the shelf life
Industrial Transformation Training Centres - Grant ID: IC130100021
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,100,000.00
Summary
ARC Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture. Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture. This Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture will enable Australian food processing and manufacturing companies to meet the increasing threats of international competition. It will do this through collaboration between industry and the Training Centre’s food science, nutrition and engineering researchers and the development of innovative technolo ....ARC Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture. Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture. This Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture will enable Australian food processing and manufacturing companies to meet the increasing threats of international competition. It will do this through collaboration between industry and the Training Centre’s food science, nutrition and engineering researchers and the development of innovative technologies.
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Industrial Transformation Training Centres - Grant ID: IC180100045
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$3,582,638.00
Summary
ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods. The ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods aims to provide a cohort of trained and industry-ready researchers who can lead the native foods industry forward. It plans to transform the native food and agribusiness sector, through the development of selected crops, foods and ingredients. The Centre will use an Indigenous governance group to oversee the process of converting traditional knowledge into branded products. Expected outcomes ....ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods. The ARC Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods aims to provide a cohort of trained and industry-ready researchers who can lead the native foods industry forward. It plans to transform the native food and agribusiness sector, through the development of selected crops, foods and ingredients. The Centre will use an Indigenous governance group to oversee the process of converting traditional knowledge into branded products. Expected outcomes include technical information to support branding and market development, best practice development in social factors and legal arrangements for benefit sharing. This Centre will help drive sustainable growth of high-value products within the premium Australian food sector.
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Food Safety And Quality Assurance For Cooked Prawns: Development And Evaluation Of A Framework For The Validation Of A Supply Chain Approach
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$29,724.00
Summary
International
Developments in the global trade of food have exposed primary producers to a new set of opportunities and risks that are best managed with risk assessment. Estimating ‘equivalence’ is now the process used to determine whether or not Australian products can penetrate foreign markets, and whether or not products produced abroad can penetrate Australian markets. This involves an appraisal of whether the imported product presents the same or lesser magnitude of human-health ri ....International
Developments in the global trade of food have exposed primary producers to a new set of opportunities and risks that are best managed with risk assessment. Estimating ‘equivalence’ is now the process used to determine whether or not Australian products can penetrate foreign markets, and whether or not products produced abroad can penetrate Australian markets. This involves an appraisal of whether the imported product presents the same or lesser magnitude of human-health risk as posed by the domestic product. Under the guidelines produced by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the assessment of equivalence demands the conduct of a food safety risk assessment by the importing country. A country can deny the entry of a product if it fails to meet the equivalence standard. Thus exporting nations require a pool of scientific expertise to conduct their own risk assessments and also to appraise the appropriateness of those produced by their trading partners.
National
At the domestic level, state food safety legislation and food standards are increasingly based on the risk assessment approach. It is timely, therefore, for industry to (develop and) validate an integrated supply chain approach to food safety that has international standing as a basis for meeting public health and trade access requirements.
This project will provide an objective, transparent and scientifically robust basis for the management of food borne hazards and shelf life in the prawn industry. We propose to conform to the internationally accepted approach for the conduct of food safety risk assessment that is promulgated by CODEX, FAO and WHO (Anon., 2002).
Industry
This is an opportunity to work at all levels of the supply chain to ensure the safe reputation that SGWCPFA prawns enjoy is confirmed and maintained by validated quality systems. While the project develops and pre-tests a framework to validate the production of cooked prawns produced under the APPA Code it will provide industry with applied recommendations on the value of routine microbiological monitoring to support other audit verification processes. Objectives: 1. Develop an approach designed to validate the APPA Code of Practice across the supply chain for cooked prawns as a model for crustacean industries 2. Benchmark industry performance criterion (i.e. quantify decrease/increase of indicator organisms) for cooking, freezing and preparation for retail (thawing, retail hygiene) processes 3. Benchmark industry product criteria (i.e. levels of food safety and shelf life microorganisms) across the supply chain to evaluate conformity with the ANZFA Food Standards Code. Read moreRead less
SCRC: The SIPP Program - Connecting Early Career Researchers With The Australian Seafood Industry Through Meaningful Coaching Partnerships: Year 3
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Summary
Disconnection between research and commercial sectors are a real challenge for the seafood industry as a whole. This disconnection leads to lack of communication about research needs from industry and poor adoption of research outcomes. Consultation with industry has identified a need for more industry ready graduates who have a deeper understanding and connection with the Australian seafood industry and understand more thoroughly the nature and the challenges commercial facilities face in all f ....Disconnection between research and commercial sectors are a real challenge for the seafood industry as a whole. This disconnection leads to lack of communication about research needs from industry and poor adoption of research outcomes. Consultation with industry has identified a need for more industry ready graduates who have a deeper understanding and connection with the Australian seafood industry and understand more thoroughly the nature and the challenges commercial facilities face in all facets of their business.
In addition, there is a need to enhance two way communication and cooperation between industry and research providers. The CRC SIPP program will assist in improving that process by enabling opportunities for industry and researchers to understand each other’s views, challenges and promote better communication on ideas and projects.Read moreRead less
SCRC: Publicity For ASCRC At The AIFST 2013 Annual Convention
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Summary
There is a need to bring the outputs, implications and conclusions of some of the technical research in Program 2,to the attention of scientists, technologists and managers in the food industry, in addition to the existing approaches within the fishing industry. The Annual Conventions of the Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology (AIFST) are a perfect opportunity to display research highlights to companies and technologists that produce seafood products for domestic and export sa ....There is a need to bring the outputs, implications and conclusions of some of the technical research in Program 2,to the attention of scientists, technologists and managers in the food industry, in addition to the existing approaches within the fishing industry. The Annual Conventions of the Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology (AIFST) are a perfect opportunity to display research highlights to companies and technologists that produce seafood products for domestic and export sales. AIFST Conventions have long provided this type of opportunity (2013 will be number 46) and invariably have always included seafood research and often dedicated blocks of the program. The technical committee have allotted a prime 90 min block of the program to achieve this, but needs to support this initiative to sponsor the session, defray travel costs for speakers, or potentially to subsidise travel of a keynote speaker from oversea.Read moreRead less