CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences is developing high quality, healthy foods that are preferred by consumers and industry.

The bioeconomy will provide a platform to a sustainable future by providing security of food, water and energy supplies, reduced emissions, and the sustainable use of both biological and non-biological resources.

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.

This course, approved by the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, will provide participants with necessary skills to design a safe and commercially viable thermal schedule for the processing of low-acid food products in cans, pouches and other hermetically sealed packaging.

CSIRO is researching insect control and quality preservation of grain and stored durable products.

By developing food materials science and food design technologies, Australia is staying at the forefront of new product and ingredient development to deliver foods with added health and processing benefits.

CSIRO has one of the world’s biggest groups of superconductivity scientists working on detectors for applications in geophysics, physical security, food safety and oceanography and in the frontier science of quantum engineering.

CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences conducts food and nutrition research to support the health and wellbeing of the Australian community and the sustainability and viability of the Australian food industry.

Light-induced damage is a significant problem for food and beverage products packaged in glass bottles. Using nanotechnology CSIRO has produced a solution, explained in this video. (1:00)

The recent debate about soy products is discussed by Dr Peter Clifton from CSIRO's Human Nutrition in this podcast. (7:00)

Mr Peter Allingham leads a project on growth history and sire-based effects on muscle structure and meat eating quality.

Mr Stephen Beckett is researching grain disinfestation and storage technologies in Australia.

It's natural that your child won't like some foods, but you can encourage them to broaden their food horizons and enjoy a healthy, nutritious, balanced range of foods. Download the following one-page checklist to use in conjunction with the information in Chapter 8, Training Tastebuds.

The registration form for the Approved Persons Course for thermal processing of low-acid foods to be held in March 2010. (1 page)

Research on stored product insects has improved application techniques for fumigants, insecticides, controlled atmospheres and inert dusts.

Guidelines on buying, storing, and preparing seafood in Australia.