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Happy New Year from all of us at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)!
As we move into 2025, I look forward to continuing to work alongside my FSANZ colleagues, our dedicated Board and you - our valued stakeholders. Through collaboration and commitment, I am confident we will embrace new opportunities and address emerging challenges to deliver on our vision of World-leading standards, safe food for life.
FSANZ is dedicated to making food safer, empowering consumers to make informed, healthier choices, and enabling industry to produce safe, nutritious food while thriving in both local and global markets.
Our priorities in 2025 include finalising energy labelling and claims on alcoholic beverages, updating definitions for gene technology and new breeding techniques, and completing reviews on egg food safety and caffeine. We will also share findings from our surveillance of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in food.
Additionally, we’re preparing for the potential mandating of Health Star Ratings, reviewing the Nutrition Information Panel, toddler milk and sports food standards, and working to harmonise maximum residue limits.
Collaboration underpins our work. We will continue working with jurisdictions to collect critical food data, update Harvest—our dietary exposure assessment and data storage system—and advance the 28th Australian Total Diet Study. Building robust data holdings remains central to supporting the development of future food standards.
Our critical role in coordinating food recalls and incidents will remain a top priority, alongside efforts to influence evidence-based food standards internationally.
We’re improving how we support stakeholders and connect across the food system by embracing digital transformation. A first step is launching a new compilation of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – find out more in this edition.
It’s an ambitious agenda, but it positions us to make meaningful impact in the year ahead. I encourage you to engage and connect with us throughout the year - whether through our consultations, webinars, events, social media and of course our monthly Food Standards News publication. We look forward to working collaboratively and productively with you in 2025.
Wishing you all a successful and fulfilling year ahead.