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Clean Labels – Opportunity identification logo
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Clean Labels – Opportunity identification

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Clean Label and free from trends have continued to evolve across the food industry. This project will review this trend and explore opportunities for Australian red meat industry to create and capture value as part of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)’s 2MorrowsFoods Program.

20 Dec 2019 - 15 Dec 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Laetatio Pty Ltd

Review of Emerging (food industry) Clean Labelling logo
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Review of Emerging (food industry) Clean Labelling

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Clean Label and free from trends have continued to evolve across the food industry. This project will consider a review of at least five novel processing technology platforms against a matrix of at least five value added red meat product applications, which may reduce the requirement of salt and other...

7 Feb 2020 - 15 Dec 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Baseline consumer sensory testing of alternative meat products logo
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Baseline consumer sensory testing of alternative meat products

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project evaluates the sensory profiles of several types of burgers made from either plant-proteins, meat, meat & seasonings and blended meat-plant protein. This will provide a sensory baseline for burgers and insights into the emerging flexitarian diet and alternate proteins category.

13 Feb 2020 - 11 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Polkinghornes

Aged Care 2025+ Identifying demand and innovation logo
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Aged Care 2025+ Identifying demand and innovation

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will investigate and identify several higher value opportunity spaces for the inclusion of Australian red meat in domestic RACF (Residential Aged Care facilities).An opportunity exists to explore innovations to grow red meat demand for this sector.

27 Mar 2020 - 31 May 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Andrews Meat Industries

Fast prototyping value added meat product logo
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Fast prototyping value added meat product

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will case study several minimum viable product (MVP) concepts from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)'s Product & Packaging program to bring to life the MVP approach for consideration to the wider Australian red meat industry. This tool will be used as part of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)'s...

30 May 2020 - 11 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

WatchMeThink Pty Ltd

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