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Establishing new integrated systems approaches logo
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Establishing new integrated systems approaches

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will lay the foundations and define the overarching requirements for the future state of traceability systems in terms of objectives, data points, storage and analysis. The project will conduct a deep dive into systems approaches and technology, and will develop the overall architecture of the future integrity system.

15 May 2020 - 4 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Greenleaf Enterprises

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Quantify Baseline value of Australian Collagen market

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will review the current Australian collagen marketplace and inform strategy development to increase market access and value-add in this space.

20 Apr 2018 - 30 Jun 2018

New South Wales, Australia

Greenleaf Enterprises

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Digital Supermarket of the Future

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will build on the designs and technology of a previous Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) project, to manufacture four transportable tables for supermarket display of red meat products. These tables have the ability transform the way Australia consumers select their red meat products.

20 Oct 2018 - 19 Dec 2018

New South Wales, Australia

Makr Shakr

Gamification (Experience More) – Zappar logo
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Gamification (Experience More) – Zappar

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will develop proof of concept packaging designs for red meat products using embedded augmented reality (Zappar). These concepts will be used as a case study to share with Australian red meat brand-owners and retailers.

15 Apr 2019 - 1 Aug 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Virtual Method

Preliminary Review of Liquid Lock Red Meat Trays logo
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Preliminary Review of Liquid Lock Red Meat Trays

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Eliminating the need for soaker pads could save $400,000/year and decrease the environmental impact of the red meat industry and support consumers who do not like to touch soaker pads in meat products. Therefore, the overall aim of this project was to review a (soaker) pad-free tray designs and evaluate...

1 Jun 2019 - 1 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Retail Ready Operations Australia Pty Ltd

Proof of Concept Cold Smoked red meat logo
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Proof of Concept Cold Smoked red meat

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will develop proof of concept red meat products based on cold smoke technology, and develop quality systems and validation of shelf life protocols for these products.

30 Jul 2019 - 8 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The Original Lamb Bacon Co

Goat Beauty Cream – Proof of Concept logo
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Goat Beauty Cream – Proof of Concept

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Whilst beef fat has in the past been adopted, this project was led by a NSW goat producer to investigate the use of goat tallow in beauty products to develop and test a proof-of-concept. Two goat tallow-based beauty products were created and surveyed by more than100 customers.

12 Dec 2019 - 1 Oct 2020

New South Wales, Australia

CB and JE Stewart

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Cutting room traceability

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The aim for this project was to minimise package mishandling to ensure continued traceability of Aussie red meat, and to maintain the expectations of high standard meat internationally.

1 Dec 2019 - 1 Aug 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Natasha Anne Wing

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New meat products testing Shopper 360

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will build on an existing Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) marketing project with Lumaten to utilise a virtual supermarket to build and test new value-added meat product concepts. Categories includes meat-plant snacks and beauty/wellness products made from red meat.

20 Dec 2019 - 10 Aug 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Lumaten Australia Pty Limited

Quantifying the Impact of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)’s Supply Chain Sustainability Program logo
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Quantifying the Impact of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)’s Supply Chain Sustainability Program

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project involved the development of a triple bottom line approach to measuring and evaluating the impact of investments made under Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)'s Environmental Sustainability On-Farm Sub-Program over the financial years 2016/17 and2017/18.

4 Mar 2019 - 28 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne