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Mince Cooling by Liquid Nitrogen logo
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Mince Cooling by Liquid Nitrogen

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will evaluate the feasibility and business case of liquid nitrogen as an alternative to carbon dioxide in meat processing for mince production. This seeks an alternative to ensure consistent supply for chilling minced product.

1 Jun 2019 - 30 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Retail Ready Operations Australia Pty Ltd

Investigating opportunities for Interactive packaging logo
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Investigating opportunities for Interactive packaging

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has been investigating advances in Smart Packaging and mega trends, such as Gamification. This project will use key drivers and consumer behaviour insights to present an overview of the Smart Packaging platform and develop a strategy and opportunity spaces for Australian red meat.

25 Jun 2019 - 1 Nov 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Wunderman Thompson Pty Ltd

Behind the Glass – Ready to Heat red meat logo
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Behind the Glass – Ready to Heat red meat

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will investigate the operational protocols and consumer/market insights for a "behind the glass offer", ready to eat meal, and analyse the role that pre-cooked red meat plays at the dinner table.

18 Sep 2019 - 30 Apr 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Andrews Meat Industries

Pilot trial of track and trace label for exporting logo
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Pilot trial of track and trace label for exporting

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will facilitate producer-led brand exporting into China, to demonstrate the value of using a track and trace system against fraud, and promote True Aussie products.

1 Nov 2019 - 30 Sep 2021

New South Wales, Australia

My Crazy Aunties Food Pty Ltd

Completion of Customer personas – Wellness logo
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Completion of Customer personas – Wellness

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The overall objective of this project is to understand if mapping carcases for wellness/mood traits is a potential future mode of operation for Australian red meat industry, beyond the current meat cuts and generic nutritional messaging. Consumer and Market insights and a cost benefit analysis will be completed to determine...

15 Dec 2019 - 1 May 2021

New South Wales, Australia

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