The food and grocery manufacturing sector pays wages and salaries of $13.56 billion.
The industry’s workforce accounts for about 3 per cent of the population.
The food and grocery manufacturing industry consists of 30,104 businesses.
The industry provides around 24 million nutritious, affordable meals to Australians every day.
312,000 Australians are employed in the food, beverage and manufacturing industries, including half in rural and regional areas.
Australia’s $108 billion food and grocery manufacturing industry is the nation’s largest manufacturing sector.
Industry spends on average 0.5 per cent of turn-over on R&D – about $368 million a year.

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Daily Intake Guide gets thumbs up from Woolworths

Thursday, 02 June 2011 14:18

A commitment by Woolworths to label 100 per cent of its private label products with Daily Intake Guide (DIG) front-of-pack nutritional labels has been applauded by the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) today.

DIG thumbnail labels already feature on more than 4000 supermarket products across Australia and Woolworths’ plans to increase the use of DIG to its full range of products within the next 12 months.

DIG front-of-pack labels offer an easy-to-follow tool that gives people information to formulate a daily eating plan according to their individual needs and activity levels. The thumbnails outline the amount of energy, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt in a standard portion of the food and how that translates to average daily intake.

AFGC Chief Executive Kate Carnell said industry has been working closely with retailers and key stakeholders as part of an ongoing awareness-raising campaign of DIG over the past four years.

“Woolworths has followed in the footsteps of industry to promote the use of DIG, which is an ideal way for people and families to formulate a daily eating plan according to their individual needs and activity levels,” Ms Carnell said.

Earlier this year, AFGC launched the new Healthy Eating, Made Easy campaign for DIG featuring Community Service Announcement (CSA) television adverts and an updated website www.mydailyintake.net, which includes a range of nutritional information.

“When choosing foods and drinks, you can use DIG thumbnails to easily balance your energy intake during the entire day,” Ms Carnell said.

AFGC and its retail partners will continue to roll out user-friendly consumer education material in retail stores and magazines to ensure consumers know how to use the nutritional information to put together a balanced diet.

For more information on the Daily Intake Guide and to calculate your daily intake levels, visit www.mydailyintake.net

To download high resolution DIG-related photographs, visit http://www.mydailyintake.net/media-centre-photo

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More information: Brad Watts AFGC Media Manager (02) 6270 9021 or 0437 379 818.

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