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Beyond meat to quality ingredient components logo
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Beyond meat to quality ingredient components

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will help highlight red meat usage and its potential as a high value ingredient, to demonstrate to the Australian red meat sector that it is worth exploring new pathways for adding value to the carcase.

30 May 2020 - 1 Mar 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Food Innovation Partners

Goat Pet treats – Proof of Concept development logo
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Goat Pet treats – Proof of Concept development

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will explore the proof of concept development of goat-based pet treats, such as goat horns and ears. The project will allow preliminary testing of the goat products in the target pet treats segment and includes developing formulation, yields and indicative costings.

30 May 2020 - 1 Apr 2021

New South Wales, Australia

CB and JE Stewart

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) Gartner Australia new product trends logo
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Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) Gartner Australia new product trends

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has engaged the services of Gartner Australia for a 1 year subscription-based research and related services, to support the High Value Foods Frontier Strategy program to investigate new food product trends and food technologies analysis. This project will pilot this approach as an alternate to...

1 Jun 2020 - 15 Jul 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Gartner Australasia

Rabobank FoodBytes! Pilot Y21Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) Future technologies logo
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Rabobank FoodBytes! Pilot Y21Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) Future technologies

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project is a redesigned Corporate Accelerator by Rabobank USA, which will continue to match-make Food Tech start-ups and connect Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) to Corporate companies in "grand challenges" that align to Products and Packaging innovations. Five Start-ups will be selected by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) to...

20 Jun 2020 - 21 Nov 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Rabobank

Quantifying the Impact of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)’s Supply logo
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Quantifying the Impact of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)’s Supply

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)’s Supply Chain Sustainability Program focuses on activities that enable Australia's red meat supply chains to be socially, environmentally and economically responsible. This project developed an evaluation framework to determine the impacts to industry generated by the program.

15 Mar 2019 - 31 Jan 2020

New South Wales, Australia

AusVet Pty Ltd

A pathway to improve quality of national herd logo
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A pathway to improve quality of national herd

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project aims to establish the design of a system to enable improved quality of current herd and productivity data of the national beef herd. Accurate herd and productivity data is required by government, research providers and industry to monitor performance, set directions for future funding and to substantiate data...

1 Jul 2019 - 9 Feb 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Integrity Ag and Environment

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Carbon accounting workshops

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The goal of this project is to conduct seven pilot carbon accounting workshops to create producer case studies and aid the design an extension and adoption product for industry. Australian producers need to be equipped with the tools they need to identify their current carbon position so that they can...

21 Feb 2020 - 31 Mar 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Integrity Ag and Environment

Re-locatable medical CT for DEXA logo
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Re-locatable medical CT for DEXA

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will develop a reliable predictor of lean meat yield (LMY%) using DEXA within processing plants. The results will underpin producer feedback and value-based payment systems, support the calibration of other LMY% prediction devices and develop a standardisation system to ensure in-plant DEXA systems reliably measure LMY % within...

15 Jan 2019 - 15 Dec 2024

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University

Using microwave to detect foreign object logo
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Using microwave to detect foreign object

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will design, build and test a prototype microwave system for detecting plastics and other contaminants in meat. The proposed microwave system will be a low cost solution for processing plants.

30 Mar 2019 - 15 Nov 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University

Viability of Multi-Energy X-ray Absorption logo
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Viability of Multi-Energy X-ray Absorption

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The main objective of this project was to conduct an initial evaluation of the potential for Multi-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (MEXA) to measure shear force and intramuscular fat percentage in the lamb loin to inform further investment.

30 Apr 2019 - 11 Mar 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University