NZIFST Newsletter - Nibbles # 439, April 29th, 2025
Conference 2025
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 first two in the Emerging Food Allergy Risk Webinar Series:
Food Allergy Frontiers: Unravelling the Science and Advancing New Treatments
12-1pm NZST, Thursday 1 May
Dr Cecilia Berin, Bunning Professor of Food Allergy Research, Northwestern University, Illinois, United States
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.
Remember, you can download a pdf from this link
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 Annual Awards
It is time to think about those within the NZIFST community and wider Food Industry have been standouts and should be recognised for their efforts.
Please check out our awards pages for more details and nomination forms.
Due to website issues, school holidays and public holidays, we have decided to extend the due date for award nominations until Thursday May 8th.
For a quick view of our awards, click the button below.
NZIFST Database Updates
Thank you for your patience as we transition into the new database.
I did send out an email last week with details on how to log in and update your password, and update your profile.
Unfortunately, not everyone was able to access these, so here they are again:
Please email me if you have any issues.
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
- A1314 - Permitting small dogs and cats in aircraft cabins: this application seeks to amend the
Code to permit companion animals (small dogs and cats) to accompany their owners aboard
airline cabins under controlled conditions. The application seeks to amend the clause on live
animals in areas in which food is handled (clause 24 of Standard 3.2.2). 11:59pm (Canberra
time) Wednesday 30 April 2025. - A1315 – Chitosan and (1,3)-beta-glucans from white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) as
a food additive: this application seeks to permit the use of chitosan and beta-1,3-glucans from
white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) as a food additive - preservative in food and
beverage products. 11:59pm (Canberra time) Tuesday 6 May 2025. - P1060 - Egg Food Safety & Primary Production Requirements: this proposal will consider
amending the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code to provide new and/or amended
food safety and primary production requirements for eggs and egg products. 11:59pm
(Canberra time) Monday 12 May 2025. - 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.
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
- A1326 - Addition of phytosterols, phytostanols or their esters as a novel food to bread and bread products
- A1328 - Aminopeptidase from GM Trichoderma reesei as a processing aid
FSANZ has completed an administrative assessment and made a decision to prepare the following proposal.
Minor procedure
Gazette - Amendment No. 236
Amendment No. 236 to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code was published by FSANZ on 29 April 2025 (FSC 176). It included amendments resulting from the following applications:
- A1299 – Fructosyltransferase from Aspergillus oryzae as a processing aid
- A1301 – Triacylglycerol lipase from GM Komagataella phaffii as a processing aid
- A1303 – Food derived from herbicide-tolerant sugar beet line KWS20-1
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.
