Has the use-by date gone past its prime? Asks Penny Wilson and Will J Grant Consumers need more useful information about assessing the freshness and safety of food products. Picture this: you arrive home from work feeling a bit peckish. Sliced mango and a dollop of yoghurt...
Controversial ‘forever chemicals’ could be phased out in Australia under new restrictions. Researchers Sarah Wilson and Rachael Wakefield-Rann look at why. There’s growing global concern about potential risks to human health and the environment from a group of industrial chemicals commonly known as PFAS, or “forever...
As the volume of Instagram posts and TV shows can attest, food has become so much more than pure nutrition, writes Dr Senaka Ranadheera These days food provides us with much joy, entertainment and social connection. But we can only experience these things with the benefits of...
Health Check: Enzo Palombo looks at the do's and dont's Refrigeration is the most important invention in the history of food. But while commercial and home refrigerators have only been used for the past 100 years or so, people have long used cool natural environments to...
