NZIFST Newsletter - Nibbles # 442, June 10th, 2025
Conference 2025
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We still have sponsorship opportunities available. Click here for more details.
** Registration is Closing on Sunday June 15th **
For the Full Programme please click here
Details on the Plenaries click here
For our wonderful sponsors and exhibitors click here
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New activities added include:
A Breakfast to Honour Mike Boland on Thursday 26th June - Register Here
A Post Conference Facilities Tour of the Massey Campus on Thurs 26th June - Register Here
Other Food Industry Events
The webinar will cover:
- What are OMARs?
- OMAR administration.
- How to navigate an OMAR.
📅 When: Tuesday 24 June 2025, 11am to 11:30am. This includes time for questions and answers.
📍 Where: Microsoft Teams
Register online 👉link to registration.
If you have any questions, please us email at exporterhelp@mpi.govt.nz.
Save the date for the next in this series: 11am Wednesday 23rd July.
More details to come.
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:
June/July 2025
Featuring in the June/July issue
- NZIFST Conference: Conference Handbook
- Alarm Sounded on MicroPlastics:
- Where are we at with replacing traditional plastics?
- AI Generated CVs:
- The dangers for job seekers and employers
- 2025 NZ Champions of Cheese Awards
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.
NZIFST Food Industry Consultants Directory
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 Strategic Workstream Update
Join NZIFST President Esraa El Shall, as she takes you through what the Strategic Workstream teams have been up to, and their future plans.
Register for the webinar on this Thursday at 5pm here.
NZIFST AGM
NZIFST Members should have received the notice of the AGM that will be held at Conference on Wednesday, 25th June at 1.15pm.
The AGM Agenda is accessible to members here.
If you would like your apology noted, and you haven't already emailed me, please email wendy@nzifst.org.nz
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
You can catch up with New Zealand Food Safety at their stand at Conference.
MPI Consultations, Legislation, Standards and Reviews.
If you are interested in what MPI is currently working on, check here for Consultations, and here for Legislation, Standards and Reviews.
To hear more about food importer responsibilities, upcoming changes to imported food requirements, current events such as recalls related to imported foods and future webinars, you can subscribe to the quarterly Food importer news by visiting this page: Food importer news | NZ Government (mpi.govt.nz).
Call for submissions
FSANZ invites written submissions on the assessment of the following application via the FSANZ Consultation Hub.
General procedure
- A1288 - Thermolysin from Anoxybacillus caldiproteolyticus Rokko as a processing aid: this application seeks permission for the enzyme thermolysin to be used as a processing aid for protein hydrolysis in: dairy foods, egg, meat, fish, yeast, protein concentrates and isolates, and brewing. 11:59pm (Canberra time) Thursday 03 July 2025.
Gazette - Amendment No. 238
Amendment No. 238 to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code was published by FSANZ on 3 June 2025 (FSC 178). It included amendments resulting from the following applications:
New applications and proposals
FSANZ has completed an administrative assessment and accepted the following application. An opportunity to comment will be available at a later date which will be publicly notified.
General procedure
- A1329 - Exclusion of Blacklip Rock Oysters from the maximum level for cadmium in molluscs
- M1023 2024 MRL Harmonisation Proposal
Approval - Food Ministers' Meeting notification
FSANZ has approved variations arising from the following applications and proposal on 30 April 2025. FSANZ has notified this approval to the Food Ministers’ Meeting:
- A1279 - Lentinula edodes (Shiitake mushroom) mycelia as a processing aid
- A1307 - Milk fat globule membrane as a nutritive substance in infant formula products
- A1308 - 2′-FL from GM Escherichia coli W in infant formula products
- A1310 - Food derived from insect-protected soybean line MON94637
- A1311 - Prolyl oligopeptidase from GM Trichoderma reesei as a processing aid
- P1064 – Australian only Infant Formula Product Standard
Once FSANZ has notified the Food Ministers’ Meeting of its decision, it has 60 days to either request FSANZ to review the approved standard or inform FSANZ that it does not intend to request a review. Further information on the process is available at The Food Ministers' Meeting website
Work Plan update
The Food Standards Work Plan has been updated - Food Standards Work Plan
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.
