Industry Top Issues: Packaging

Certification costs including food safety and labelling requirements
Community expectations of environmentally sustainable, biodegradable and recyclable materials
High cost of adhering to differing requirements for export markets • Lack of understanding of consumer needs and preferences at the processing level

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Meat Packaging Solutions to Current Industry Challenges

Jul 13, 2018

Much advancement has occurred in the field of smart meat packaging, and there is great potential for these to be used as tools that respond to challenges faced by the red meat industry. This proj...

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Impact of extended shelf-life of chilled beef into overseas markets

Feb 2, 2018

Australia is a major exporter of vacuum packaged chilled beef (VPCB) to many overseas markets, and China is an increasingly important export destination for Australian VPCB, with enormous potential ...

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Identifying storage thresholds in frozen and chilled red meats

Dec 13, 2017

Red meat (lamb and beef) are important global commodities and as such, industry must deliver safe and quality product to often distant end-users – to do otherwise would incur substantial marke...

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Greening of vacuum-packaged lamb – causative factors

Jan 24, 2014

Australian vacuum-packaged lamb has at times been rejected for greening of packs after storage times as short as 6 weeks. Greening of beef was in the past associated with high-pH meat, so a multi-pr...