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Kerry’s new Australia and New Zealand Development and Application Centre in Brisbane will bring its food innovation cycle under one roof and increase capacity to drive food innovation.
New food innovation
hub established in
Queensland
IRELAND’S Kerry Group is set to build a new food technology and in- novation centre in Queensland, Aus- tralia.
sustainable and crit- ical food and bev- erage manufacturing sector in the region,” Ms Giuliano said.
The facility will also be the company’s new headquarters for Aus- tralia and New Zea- land.
The Brisbane fa- cility is comple- mented by the Kerry Australia and New Zealand Commercial Connect Centre in Sydney.
The new Kerry Aus- tralia and New Zea- land development and application centre will comprise pilot plants, laboratories and tasting facilities.
The centre is a spe- cialist research and development applica- tions hub.
It will have access to Kerry’s global research and devel- opment network, in- sights, market knowl- edge, and culinary and applications ex- pertise.
Australia is an at- tractive destination for food manufac- turing.
The Brisbane-based centre will enable Kerry to reduce time to market for new product development.
It accounts for more than 18 percent or $50 billion of Australia’s total manufacturing turnover each year.
It will also increase its capacity to drive food innovation in the region.
The company has in- dicated it will partner with local universities to place graduates in the centre through its graduate program.
Kerry Australia and New Zealand general manager Christine Giuliano said, “The facility will bring the benefits of our global technologies to local food and beverage producers – sup- porting regional in- dustry development.”
Kerry’s investment was supported by the Queensland Gov- ernment’s advance Queensland industry attraction fund.
“Considering Queensland’s align- ment with Kerry’s growth strategies, we are looking forward to supporting a strong,
It aligns with the Australian Govern- ment’s modern man- ufacturing strategy, where food and bev- erage is one of six areas of comparative advantage and stra- tegic importance.
The food and bev- erage industry is Aus- tralia’s largest manu- facturing sector.
Kerry will also have access to a highly qualified workforce.
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The visitor check-in app is currently being successfully piloted by a major pork producer. Photo: Steven Weeks
Audit finds gaps in pig transport systems
Pork Integrity
ANIMAL movement vehicles and visitors to farms are two key bios- ecurity risks, according to an audit of data from the pig industry, supply chain partners, govern- ment and publicly avail- able information.
The discovery was made as part of Australian Pork Limited’s collaboration with technology com- pany ExoFlare to build a disease risk module for African swine fever in Australia.
sights on biosecurity and animal welfare.
cations and effectiveness • Valuable animal wel-
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New pilot software has also been developed by Exoflare to address the risks of visitors to farms to on-farm biosecurity.
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Recommendations from the audit suggested trans- porters use apps that can assess and mitigate risk and collect data.
The analysis high- lighted:
fare insights.
New pilot software has
In a case study, trans- port vehicles connected to a large producer were fitted with global posi- tioning system location tracking to generate in-
• The importance of full-time GPS truck tracking for biosecurity
also been developed by Exoflare to address the risks of visitors to farms to on-farm biosecurity.
by DR VAIBHAV GOLE
• Increased biosecurity risk where trucks stop in uncontrolled locations
The visitor check-in app is currently being successfully piloted by a major pork producer on- farm which has enabled:
• Current challenges re- lated to truck washing lo-
• Consistent evaluation of visitor risk, with deci- sion support for farm staff making risk assessments
• Efficiencies by re- placing paper forms and manual processes with a web app accessible by devices
• High-level insights and appropriate mitiga- tion measures to better manage biosecurity risks
• Electronic data cap- ture for record-keeping, reporting and contact tracing.
Scoping of the next phase of this research pro- ject is underway to roll out the visitor check-in app and further develop the animal movement module.
Producers who are in- terested in further infor- mation or to register their interest in future trials can email vaibhav.gole@ australianpork.com.au or visit exoflare.io/apl
Publishing error
The photo used in the Pork Storks article of Australian Pork Newspaper Vol 25 No 6 June 2021 on page
13 was not related to Pork Storks in any way and was an image taken at Sabor by Landline.