Sectors of AFI
Agriculture and Fisheries, Food Processing and Manufacturing, Food Service and Catering, Food Retail
What is The Agri-Food Chain?
Food that has been made from genetically engineered foods, or produced from organisms that have had changes made to their DNA.
What is Genetically Modified Food?
Their Aim is to detect potential problem areas in the food production process that could affect product safety.
An independent legislative body that creates and amends laws pertaining to food.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)
An alternative method to industrial farming involving farming practices without the use of synthetic chemicals, and using techniques such as crop rotation.
What is Organic Farming?
Consists of commercial food production and service to customers.
What is Food Service and Catering?
Supermarkets and other stores offering home delivery services.
What is Online Shopping?
An organisation that does research in all sectors of the food industry. They work with farmers, the government and research teams to develop innovative agri-food and processing technologies to increase prosperity and sustainability in Australia's agribusiness sector.
What is the CSIRO?
A defect in the quality of a food item that could pose a safety threat to consumers due to a production fault or tampering.
What is a Reason for Food Product Recalls?
Reduce air conditioner power use by using acceptable temperature settings, especially during non-production and non-occupied periods.
What is A Strategy to Improve Energy Use/Consumption?
The processing or enhancement of a product to increase its shelf life and/or selling price.
What is Value Adding?
Bread with added iron and fibre.
What is an example of Nutritionally Modified Foods?
Provides fair and effective support and advice encouraging all parties to take a constructive role in promoting improvements in the workplace for workers.
What is Work Health and Safety Act (2011) NSW
Ensures a manufacturer is not able to produce a new food product and make it available to consumers without first abiding by the rigorous standards set.
What is the Food Standards Code?
Decisions to move into the food industry for a career are often affected by employment entitlements, working conditions, image and future career prospects. For these reasons some job opportunities continue to attract a particular gender.
What is Gender Issues Within The Food Industry?
A company may operate several stores or processing plants and the quantity of the food produced is sold on a big scale. Many of the tasks involved in the production process are automated and require less hands on labour.
What is A Large Business?
Involves the transfer of genes with desirable characteristics into another plant or animal. This may lead to pest and disease-resistant plants.
What is Bio Technology in genetic engineering?
1. Preventing people becoming overweight and obese.
2. Increasing the consumption of vegetables and fruit
3. Promoting optimal nutrition for women, infants and children.
4. Improving nutrition for vulnerable groups.
What is the four key nutrition priority areas in 'Eat Well Australia, 2000-2010'?
An independent, non-government, non-profit, community-based organisation that promotes the health and wellebeing of all Australians.
Foods with specific characteristics such as kosher, halal and organic are also catered for by food growers and manufacturers.
Worth more than $3 Billion to the Australian economy, and produces more than 600 varieties of product that are consumed locally and exported to countries such as Japan.
What is Fishing and Aquaculture?
Flesh Product that has never been part of a complete, living animal. Experimental research is currently growing and no product has been produced in Australia for public sale or consumption.
What is In Vitro Meat?
International treaties that reduce barriers to trade and investment and that open up opportunities for the Australian food industry to export its goods into overseas markets.
What is Free Trade Agreements?
A leading national advisory body that helps shape a business environment which encourages the food manufacturing sector to grow and remain profitable, representing Australia's food, drink and grocery manufacturing industry.
What is the Australian Food and Grocery Council?
The development of genetically modified crops that require less water and irrigation for their growth and productivity.
What is A Sustainable Water Practice/Strategy