Foreword May 2025
By John Thisgaard, Jenny Awad (FoodLegal Bulletin
Co-Editors) and Joe Lederman (FoodLegal Chairperson and Co-Editor)
Welcome to the May 2025 edition of FoodLegal Bulletin!
1. Connect
with FoodLegal
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2. FoodLegal
events
A. Navigating
Australia’s new food import requirements in BICON – Monday 12 May 2025 FoodLegal
together with Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
is running a live interactive webinar on updates to Australia’s Biosecurity
Import Condition (BICON) system and what this means for businesses
importing food to Australia. Tickets are available here. B. Food
Marketing Claims – Tuesday 27 May 2025 Do
you know how to assess the risk of your marketing claims, or what
substantiation evidence you might need? Our online interactive FoodLegal
workshop will empower you to assess the regulatory risk of the latest
emerging and trending claims. Tickets are available here.
C. Selling
Food Online – Thursday 12 June 2025 Our
online interactive FoodLegal workshop will cover the important issues that a food business should
consider when selling food online. This will help you understand how
marketing and labelling laws apply to foods sold online, and other important
decisions regarding import, storage, product safety and delivery. Tickets are available here.
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3. In
this May 2025 edition of FoodLegal Bulletin
Our FREE article “Current developments in food law and policy in Australia and internationally” provides the latest regulatory developments and
updates. There have been many news developments over the past month and it is
vital to read these updates. FoodLegal can advise businesses on the impact of
specific updates to their particular situation.
Our
article “Regulatory implications for product pricing in recent ACCC report" examines a new ACCC report into the grocery sector, its proposed reforms, and
explains likely regulatory changes for food businesses.
The article “What is ABAC pre-vetting and do you need to do it?” looks at what ABAC
pre-vetting involves, whether it is mandatory, what you can do if you receive a
pre-vetting rejection, and other ways that FoodLegal can help you achieve
compliance and minimise risk.
In
our article “How new dairy products evolve from scientific and technical advances,” FoodLegal explores the advances in processing methods,
nutritional manipulation and digital transformation underlying product
development in the dairy sector.
We hope you
enjoy this May 2025 edition of FoodLegal Bulletin!
John
Thisgaard, Jenny Awad
and Joe Lederman
Editors
FoodLegal Bulletin
This is general information rather than legal advice and is current as of 5 May 2025. We recommend you seek legal advice for your specific circumstances before making any commercial decisions.