Vegan foods are considered by most consumers to have no ingredients of animal origin, but they may actually contain milk proteins.
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It’s not just the ingredients we should be concerned about. The devices themselves release chemicals that end up in our blood and urine.
Labels that reflect our gender, racial or age-specific biases can often undermine others.
Current expiration date system leads to confused consumers and wasted food.
Cannabis labelling is often misleading. Labelling cannabis products with quantities of key compounds will help consumers make informed decisions.
The food industry’s tactics are designed to reduce the likelihood of the government adopting global recommendations to tackle obesity.
What does it mean to call a nonfood product like lipstick organic? Federal regulators allow such claims, but have set few standards defining them.
Can you call it meat if it’s been artificially produced? That’s the question cattlemen in the US are asking, and something food regulators will have to grapple with soon when it coms to labelling.
New standards for free-range eggs will limit stocking densities and mean hens must have access to outdoors.
The upcoming TTIP trade agreement could force EU to liberalise GM regulations such as labelling.
The federal government is likely to introduce a star system for food packages next year to help consumers make healthier food choices, ABC’s Lateline reported last week. Much like the energy star rating…
Australian and New Zealand ministers responsible for food regulation last week bowed to lobbying from processed food manufacturers and agreed to permit them to market products with general level health…
After the big wet, spare a thought for the health of your waterways and the substances that wash into them. Bacteria are important to the health of the waterways running through our backyards. As decomposers…
It’s late in the night. And after a long day at work, you have a splitting headache. You rattle around in the bottom drawer of the bathroom vanity to find a packet of paracetamol tablets you know are hiding…
For the animal industry and the animal protection movement, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) pending case against poultry producer Steggles is set to be their very own version…
The Federal Government has defied expert advice and rejected a traffic light food labelling system for packaged foods, saying there wasn’t enough evidence to show it would give consumers the information…
Two out of three Australians use complementary medicines to boost their nutrition, alleviate various symptoms and improve their overall health and well-being. There are around 10,000 products to choose…
Picture this: you arrive home from work feeling a bit peckish. Sliced mango and a dollop of yoghurt should ease the cravings until dinner, you think. You open the fridge door and, horror, no yoghurt. Not…
It’s likely Australia’s sunscreen regulations will change this summer, enabling manufacturers to label their products as SPF50+. The sunscreen industry has championed the proposed change, led by Standards…
Nutritional labels on food packaging empower consumers to make healthier and more informed food choices. But like other measures taken for public health, food labelling also has its critics. There’s clear…
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Monash University
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HERA Program Director - Health Workforce Optimisation Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Food Politics and Policy, The University of Melbourne
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Bath
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Market Insights Manager, Melbourne Business School
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Director of Cancer Programs, Cancer Council NSW; PhD Candidate in Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Sydney
