Sectors of the AFI
Food Retail
What is the Fourth Sector of the Agri-Food Chain?
seasonal, long hours, casual work, for example, fruit picking.
What is characteristic employment in the Agriculture and Fisheries sector?
Household, Small Business, Large Business, Multinational
Levels of Operation and Mechanisation
Packaging a variety of lettuce leaves in a convenient single-serve bowl.
What is an example of value-adding in food manufacturing?
name or description of food, product recall information (name, address of manufacturer and batch number), country of origin, ingredients, information for allergy sufferers, nutrition panel, date marking (shelf life), quantity, storage information, legibility (legible, prominent, in English), truthfulness (no false, misleading or deceptive representations).
What is food labelling requirements
Foods that have their original properties changed using gene technology.
What is Genetically Modified (GM) Foods?
the distance food travels between production and consumption; aiming to increase localised eating.
What is Food Miles?
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
Virtual supermarkets enable consumers to purchase grocery items by scanning barcodes with their smartphones.
What is an example of Emerging Technologies?
Responsible for appointing an environmental health officer (EHO), inspecting food or food premises and building requirements (construction and alteration of food premises).
What is the role of Local Government in food policies and legislation?
a broad term used to describe the process of using living things to create or change products. It can involve using microorganisms on products to change human health and the environment.
What is Biotechnology?
Ensures food products abide by rigorous standards and is divided into four chapters.
What is the Food Standards Code?
A new food product is launched into the market with high prices.
What is price skimming?
graphic designer, market researcher, food production line worker
What are the positions available in the food processing and manufacturing sector of the AFI?
Not declaring allergens on food labels
What is an example of a breach of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011?
Environmentally damaging with unknown effects, Health concerns that cause allergies not known before and Australia's "clean, green" reputation may suffer
What are the potential risks of using emerging technologies in food production and manufacturing?
Carried out by individual businesses and the CSIRO. Benefits include increased exports, production of healthier and safer foods, and improved profitability.
What is Research and Development?
WHS Act 2011.
What act are all workers are protected by?
Chapter 1: general food standards (labelling, additives, used-by date, nutritional content).
Chapter 2: food product standards (quality, edibility).
Chapter 3: food safety standards (premises, equipment).
Chapter 4: primary production standards (production, manufacture).
What are the 4 chapter of the Food Standards Code?
Concern for food safety (labelling), Rising community expectations for responsible production (ecological sustainability) and World or local issues (drought, economic or political change)
What are examples of the forces behind change in the food industry?
Local Council
What level of government authorises registration of a food safety program and allows a food business to open?
restaurants employ men and women but gender issues may arise because of the nature of the job e.g pay equality/pay gaps between males and females in restaurants. Lack of female representation at the management level of food services and catering ventures.
Recognise a gender issue within the Food Service and Catering sector of the Australian food industry
An independent, not-for-profit, community-based organisation that promotes the health and wellbeing of all Australians.
What is Nutrition Australia and what do they do?
Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) - part of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, working to protect Australian agriculture from contamination. Responsible for protection from exotic pests, inspecting imported products, ensuring quarantine status of travellers, certifying agricultural exports and negotiating national or international trade agreements.
What is an Advisory Group for the Agriculture and Fisheries sector?