Proposed new accreditation standards for free-range eggs aim to drastically increase the density of laying birds, but guidance for consumers remains unaddressed.
Read More New standards could make you choose between the chicken and egg
The COPOLCO Mirror Committee takes Australian positions to the International Organisation for Standardisation’s consumer policy committee.
Read More Consumer participation in standards making – COPOLCO
Government announcements suggest we’ll get a better food labelling system. But in the meantime the discredited DI% labels are still found on our food.
Read More Food labelling: Daily intake percentage labels discredited
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved a proposal to extend country of origin labelling to unpackaged beef, sheep and chicken meat.
Read More Country of origin labelling extended to unpackaged meat
The Gonski report on education focuses on outcomes. It places students at the centre of the system, considers how best they learn and achieve and asks how the system can best service the needs of students. Consumer Health Forum’s Carol Bennett wants this approach applied to health funding.
Read More The health system needs a Gonski
Electronic health records involve the systematic electronic collection of health information previously held on paper about individual patients or populations, such as information about the physical or and mental health of an individual or provision of health services.
Read More Standards update: Electronic health data
CHOICE has called on the Egg Corporation to reconsider its planned 13-fold increase in hen stocking densities for eggs it certifies as free range and instead work with government, animal welfare and consumer groups on a national standard that would meet consumer expectations.
Read More Free range eggs not all their cracked up to be
Ken Harvey presents a report from a recent workshop hosted by the pharmaceutical industry body for public input in their code of conduct review.
Read More Consumer input in Medicines Australia’s code of conduct review
CHOICE has met with officials from state and territory governments, along with key industry and health group representatives, to discuss the development of a single front-of-pack food labelling system.
Read More Governments and stakeholders turn attention to front-of-pack labelling
CFA Member CHOICE is calling for proposed rules that would restrict ‘fat free’ and ‘% fat free’ claims on food packaging to be extended to cover all claims about fat content.
Read More Big fat loophole for food claims
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a controversial, secretly negotiated, trade agreement designed to provide for stronger enforcement of intellectual property rights. But there has been no independent analysis of the impact of the treaty in Australia upon economics, human rights or health care.
Read More Opening Pandora’s box: secret treaty threatens human rights
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Button batteries found in remote controls and other household electronic devices are a severe and little known risk for young children, a joint campaign by Energizer, Kidsafe, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned.
Read More Button batteries: A little known risk