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Inorganic arsenic and iodine in seaweed
Listeria in food
Listeria monocytogenes and imported fresh enoki mushrooms
Microorganisms and foodborne illness
Poultry liver dishes
Raw drinking milk
Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) linked to eggs
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Energy labelling of alcoholic beverages
Fish names
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Labelling poster - how to read food labels
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Labelling review recommendation 17
Labelling review recommendation 26
Labelling review recommendation 34 - irradiation labelling
Labelling review recommendation 40 - country of origin labelling
Labelling review recommendations 6 and 47
Technical evaluation for recommendation 13 (trans fatty acids)
Nutrition information panels
Sugar labelling
Truth in labelling, weights and measures and legibility
Use by and best before dates
Warning and advisory statements
Chemicals in food
Acrylamide and food
Aluminium
Arsenic
Benzene in flavoured beverages
Bisphenol A (BPA)
Chemicals in food - maximum residue limits
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Dioxins
Ethylene oxide
Fluoride in bottled water
Glyphosate
Melamine
Mercury in fish
Perfluorinated compounds
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in foods
Additives and processing aids
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Aspartame
Colours and food additives reported as banned
Food colours
Glazing agents
Glutamates and food
How FSANZ ensures the safety of food additives
Intense sweeteners
MSG in food
Nitrates and nitrites
Steviol glycosides (960) (intense sweetener) (stevia)
Sulphites
Table of food additive permissions in the US and Europe
What do food additives do?
Food technologies and novel foods
Cloned animals
Food irradiation
Nanoparticles and infant formula
Nanotechnology and food
Reports on the use of nanotechnology in food additives and packaging
Review of titanium dioxide as a food additive
Tagatose
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GM foods: Safety of ingested recombinant DNA
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Safety assessment sharing for GM foods
Herbicides in GM foods
FSANZ response to study linking Cry1Ab protein in blood to GM foods
Current status of genetically modified foods applications
New breeding techniques (NBTs)
New plant breeding techniques workshops
Food derived using new breeding techniques - review
Education materials on GM foods and NBTs
Response to studies cited as evidence of adverse effects from GM foods
Feeding studies and GM corn MON863
Response to a feeding study in rats by Zdziarski et al [1]
Nutrition
Iodine sensitivities
Iodine in food and iodine requirements
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Plant sterols
Plant-based milk alternatives
Pregnancy and healthy eating
Iodine and pregnancy
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Folic acid/folate and pregnancy
Regulatory nutrient reference values
Sodium and salt
How much sodium do Australians eat?
Sodium and salt
How much sodium is in Australian foods?
Sugar
Trans fatty acids
Wholegrain food
Our safe food supply
Animal diseases, human health and food safety
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
COVID-19 transmission by food and food packaging
Cell based meat
Hemp seeds as food
Imported ready-to-eat berries
Isomaltulose
Meat pies
Microplastics in food
Palm oil
Pine nuts
Processed foods
Quorn (mycoprotein)
Food fortification
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Folic acid - mandatory folic acid fortification
Monitoring of folic acid fortification
Iodine fortification
Thiamin fortification
Vitamins and minerals added to food
Imported foods
FSANZ advice on imported human milk and human milk products
Special purpose foods
Food for special medical purposes
Sports foods
Science and data
Dietary exposure and intake assessments
FSANZs dietary exposure assessment computer program
Food consumption data used in dietary exposure assessments
International peer review of our dietary modelling practices
Protecting high consumers
National surveillance of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in retail food
Food and nutrients databases
AUSNUT 2011-13
AUSNUT 2011-13 dietary supplement nutrient database
AUSNUT2011-13 food measures database
About AUSNUT 2011-13
Assigning foods and dietary supplements nutrients and measures data
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Australian Branded Food Database
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Codex Alimentarius Commission
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2022-23 Key Foods Analytical Program
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