http://www.vfitb.com.au/news Victorian Food Industry Training Board Latest News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:37:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the Australian Food News website, 2 February: KR Castlemaine has  launched a campaign for a pre-packaged ham product with the claim to be “natural”, using new technologies to become the “first Australian pre-packaged ham that is artificially preservative-free”. This new range of ham is said to be produced ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1675 From The Age website, 30 January 2012 Victorian agriculture and food export earnings surged 19 per cent last financial year to $8.1 billion - believed to be a record - thanks largely to a strong performance by dairy and meat producers, rebounding wool and grain exports and ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1652 From The Australian website: VICTORIANS don't want to go back to the old centrally managed VET system. But they're not sure the new demand-driven system is training people properly, an expert report has revealed. Quality concerns were the “major reoccurring theme” in consultations about recommended changes to the state’s VET fees and ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1641 From the Australian Food News website, Australian ASX-listed company Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WBC) today announced the signing of a five year deal to supply dairy products to Coles Supermarkets under a new consumer brand. The new brand, called ‘Great Ocean Road’, will be sold exclusively through Coles stores ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1624 From the Australian Food News website: Almost one-third of adults over the age of 25 have a Vitamin D deficiency, a new study from The University of Melbourne has found.  The study involved 11,218 Australians. University of Melbourne’s Professor of Medicine, and study author, Professor Peter Ebeling say the findings ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1616 From the Australian Food News newsletter: January 21st 2012 The Ballarat Beer Festival is a one-day event celebrating boutique beer, gourmet food and world-class entertainment at the City Oval Ballarat on Saturday, January 21 to sample craft beers from all over Victoria. Click here to more news items on the Australian Food ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1585 From the Victorian Government website: Courses including education, health and engineering have seen the greatest growth in offers for tertiary education student places in 2012, Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall announced today. The number of students receiving offers through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) for health courses has ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1582 Model hydrogen fuel cell truck with undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) students Sinan Aizad and Schalokh Saleem with NORTH Link Executive Director Mick Butera and Associate Professor John Andrews, RMIT University. RMIT University has been running an excellent program for several years, networking to industry via NORTH Link, placing final ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1525 From the Australian Food News site, 10 January 2012: Woolworths has become the first national supermarket to offer certified Meat Standards Australia (MSA) graded Australian beef to customers. Woolworths has been working with Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) for over a decade on developing the MSA grading system. MSA ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1505 From The Age: HEINZ is set to close its tomato sauce factory in northern Victoria on Friday with the loss of 146 jobs. After the last of the Girgarre factory's stock is sold from store shelves, there will be no more Heinz tomato sauce or ketchup made in Australia. Heinz is shifting ... http://www.vfitb.com.au/news/?p=1491