CSIRO researchers are encouraging parents not to forget to provide their children with healthy lunches and breakfasts in the back-to-school rush.

Internationally recognised food scientist and science leader, Professor Martin Cole, will start as the Chief of CSIRO’s Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences (FNS) in January 2010.

CSIRO scientists in Adelaide are undertaking a study to test simple strategies to help parents get their kids off the couch and provide them with healthier foods.

CSIRO will launch its new publication, The CSIRO Wellbeing Plan for Kids, at Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Markets at 10am today.

Innovative Australian fruit juices developed with CSIRO have won at the prestigious Beverage Innovation Awards in Germany overnight.

CSIRO has become the only organisation outside Europe to be invited to join HighTech Europe – a consortium of research agencies, industrial federations, universities and equipment manufacturers established to facilitate the uptake of innovative and emerging food processing technologies.

Technology developed by Food Science Australia (FSA) to improve the way fruit juices and other food products are pasteurised, is being used commercially in a new Melbourne food processing facility opened this morning by Victorian Premier John Brumby.

A research partnership between CSIRO and Mars Australia has produced a database and information toolkit that will be available to a wide range of food businesses to help improve their sustainability strategies.

The most comprehensive survey ever taken of Australian children’s diet and activity habits has revealed a picture of a generation where some children are eating a variety of healthy foods and are generally lean and active, while others are filling up on the wrong types of food and spending too long in front of the television.

New food processing technologies and how they can be used to develop a more sustainable, secure, safe and profitable food industry will be discussed in Brisbane from 17-18 September during the 4th Innovative Foods Centre Conference – FIESTA2008.

Learn more about how Food Science Australia views the industry’s future at an ‘Open Day’ to be held at Food Science Australia’s site in Werribee, Victoria, on 29 May.

How food manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, growers and processors can better use fruit and vegetables to enhance the texture and nutritional value of a wide range of foods, will be the discussed at a workshop in Werribee, Victoria, tomorrow.

CSIRO supports the latest World Cancer Research Fund Report highlighting obesity as a major risk factor for a range of cancers.

One of Australia’s leading nutritionists will tonight venture into another world to take part in Australia’s first virtual science seminar. 

Internationally acclaimed food and material science expert Professor Peter Lillford has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship with the Food Futures Flagship to design healthier and tastier foods.

Twelve native Australian fruits that are exceptional sources of antioxidants have been identified in research published in the journal Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies.  

A proposal to redefine the internationally accepted definition of what constitutes “dietary fibre” will be questioned today in an address by senior CSIRO nutritionist Dr David Topping to the US Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting in Chicago.

The next generation of microencapsulation technology will be utilised to increase the range of processed foods containing healthy omega-3 oils under an agreement between Australian company, Clover Corporation Limited, and Food Science Australia (FSA). 

The Food Processing Centre Open Day, in Werribee, Victoria, on Wednesday 30 May, will showcase the top-10 most requested technologies at Food Science Australia. 

CSIRO has been allocated an additional $A2 million over two years to target obesity and promote healthy eating and physical activity in young Australians.

New cereal grains with high levels of resistant starch could improve bowel health and prevent large bowel disease, according to research presented in America today by CSIRO scientist Dr David Topping.

Food Science Australia’s Dr Geoffrey Smithers has received a major CSIRO award for research estimated to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to Australia’s dairy industry.

In recognition of his innovative research into improving the quality of fresh produce exports, Food Science Australia's Dr Nick Smale has been awarded this year’s prestigious James Harrison International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) Young Researchers Award.

One of the most important surveys of children ever to be undertaken in Australia gets underway nationally today with thousands of phone calls to families across Australia inviting them to participate.

Victoria’s small to medium food manufacturers can now access the expertise and technical innovations they need to grow their businesses, following the launch of the $1.4 million Food SME Technology Transfer Program (FoodTech).