An ANFIL  member is currently seeking a supplier of Davidsonia jerseyana and/or Davidsonia pruriens seeds. If anyone can help please contact Lisa Matchan – Sales Manager -Humphris Nursery Phone: (03) 9761 9688 Mobile: 0468 928 960.

MYRTLE RUST detected in Victoria Myrtle rust has recently been confirmed in a number of nurseries in Victoria. This is the first detection of myrtle rust outside New South Wales and Queensland. The disease has been confirmed in nursery stock in 13 production nurseries and wholesale outlets in metropolitan Melbourne. To date the disease has [...]

 
Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation Queensland Government
Media Release
6 January 2012
Food grants for smart local business
TROPICAL north Queensland’s food-related businesses are at the forefront of the Queensland Government’s plan to double the value of the state’s food sector by 2020.
A recent study shows the total value of north Queensland’s primary industries is $3.4 billion.
The [...]

Merry Christmas and  happy New Year for 2012 to all. A bit of holiday reading in the form of the revamped ANFIL Bulletin - now called ’Wild about Native Foods’ – please enjoy and we look forward to some new contributions from members in 2012!

Recently Diemen Pepper, a small farm in the far south of Tasmania, hosted a visit from a Dietary Supplement Facility inspector from the Office of Regulatory Affairs of the US Food and Drug Administration!
Although these inspections are normally confined to significant manufacturers, it appears that Tasmannia Pepper has popped above the radar, despite having just [...]

ANFIL board member has had a busy time. Last week he was at the Royal melbourne Show promoting his Creative native meal solutions range and ANFIL as well.
In September he was in Alice Springs – wowing them with his Australian native food cuisine at the 2011 Alice Desert Festival.  Andrew was the special guest host [...]

Work has just begun on a new project to generate data for the FSANZ nutritional panel calculator – the tool used by formulators, chefs and manufacturers to produce the (legally required) nutritional panels we see on all our retail products. Very few native foods areincluded in the FSANZ database, and ANFIL, with help from RIRDC is [...]

Check out the August Flavour of the Month – Muntries

Two spice and herb extract combinations from galangal (Alpinia galanga), rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), and lemon iron bark (Eucalyptus staigerana) were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growth of inoculated Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus and naturally present spoilage microflora on cooked ready-to-eat shrimp stored for 16 days at 4 or 8°C. A combination of [...]

ANFIL, through New Rural Industries Australia (NRIA), are applying for a registration permit for the use of the herbicides, Basta, Glyphosphate and Sprayseed on the following crops: Syzygium lehumannii, Syzygium fibrosum, Syzygium anisatum, Backhousia citriodora, Citrus australasica, Solanum central, Citrus glauca, Davidsonia jerseyana, Davidsonia pruriens, Davidsonia johnsonii, Terminalia ferdinandiana, Kunzea pomifera, Santalum acuminatum, Tasmannia lanceolata [...]