NZIFST Newsletter - Nibbles # 440, May 13th 2025
Conference 2025
Would you like to link your brand with the NZIFST Conference?
We still have sponsorship opportunities available. Click here for more details.
Registration is Open
We are very excited to let you know our new website is ready for Conference Registrations!
Hopefully you can now see the ticketing details, a basic programme, our wonderful sponsors and exhibitors, and the registration button!
Earlybird registration closes on May 31st.
Please let us know if you have any issues accessing anything.
There is more content to come, so keep your eyes peeled.
Other Food Industry Events
Join New Zealand Food Safety for the next offering in the Emerging Food Allergy Risk Webinar Series:
Our current understanding of the psychological impact of food allergy
11am-12pm NZST, Thursday 29 May
Professor Rebecca Knibb, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Do you have a food industry related event you would like to advertise with us?
Contact the NZIFST Executive Manager to find more about costs and discounts by offering discounts to NZIFST Members.
Latest Food New Zealand Issue
Food New Zealand:
April/May 2025
Featuring in the April/May issue
- Focus on INGREDIENTS
- NZOZ Sensory Symposium Report
- NZFSSRC: Marine Research on the case of Ciguatera
- Accessible Design - Packaging for everyone
- Tiny food farms: A big deal.
Food Industry Consultants Directory Details
We are in the process of launching the Food Industry Consultants Directory on our new platform, so hold tight while this happens.
In August we soft launched a new page on the NZIFST website in conjunction with the Auckland Branch FED Talk "Is Consulting for You?"
If you are considering moving to consulting, you can check out the recording of the FED Talk in the members only recordings section of the website.
If you would like to advertise your consulting services with us or are looking for someone with skills you or your business may not have, please email the Executive Manager for more details.
NZIFST Head Office Notes
NZIFST Annual Awards
Thank you to everyone who nominated someone for one of our annual awards.
The Mary Earle Mentorship Award is still open, so if you know someone who excels at mentoring others so they can achieve their career goals and objective through moral, social and intellectual support, you can nominate them here.
The nominations for this award close on May 31st, 2025.
The Earle Travel Fellowship Applications are now open
The Earle Travel Fellowship is awarded annually to support and encourage young professional engineers and food technologists. The aim of the fellowship is to increase the knowledge and skills of professionals through overseas travel.
Applications are invited from young (under 40 years old) members of NZIFST, Engineering NZ, IChemE in New Zealand or PDMA.
Applications close on 21st July 2025.
IUFoST Committee Nominations
NZIFST is a member of the International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST).
IUFoST is seeking nominations for representatives to the following groups:
- Early Career Scientists
- Various Food Processing Committees - depending on your area of interest or knowledge.
- Food Safety Curricula Benchmarking Committee.
Let me know if you would like to know more about these committees.
NZ Food Safety News
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FSANZ Notifications
Call for submissions
FSANZ invites written submissions on the assessment of the following application via the FSANZ Consultation Hub.
General procedure
- A1318 - Steviol glycosides produced by enzymatic conversion using enzymes produced by GM Escherichia coli BL21: This application seeks permission for the use of new enzyme processing aids derived from genetically modified E. coli BL21, to produce the steviol glycoside rebaudioside M. 11:59pm (Canberra time) Tuesday 20 May 2025.
Gazette - Amendment No. 237
Amendment No. 237 to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code was published by FSANZ on 1 May 2025 (FSC 177). It included amendments resulting from the following proposal:
Further information is available on the FSANZ Gazette web page.
For information about progress on all current applications and proposals, including anticipated consultation opportunities, see the Food Standards Work Plan.
Previous Notification Circulars and Gazettes are available on the FSANZ website.
CHANGING YOUR JOB?
PLEASE TELL US ABOUT IT!
If you have changed jobs, or are back in New Zealand from overseas, please email your news to the team at Food New Zealand so it can be included in the journal.
