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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-721
PROJECT STATUS:
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SCRC: Seafood CRC: Develop, conduct and analyse a small survey of seafood buyers at ESE 2008 to help assess the relative importance of key attributes of Australian seafood in influencing purchasing decisions.

This report details the findings of European Seafood Exposition survey conducted in Brussels in April 2008. The main purpose of this project was to survey perception that seafood traders / professionals of this industry have about 6 seafood producing countries, including Australia. We chose to use...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Industry
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Participation in study tour to attend Seafood & Health ’05 Conference & Seafood HACCP Alliance for Education & Training

Project number: 2005-407
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $5,000.00
Principal Investigator: Jayne M. Gallagher
Organisation: Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Project start/end date: 5 Nov 2005 - 10 Jul 2006
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The Seafood HACCP Alliance meeting - important to ensure that Australian Seafood Industry are fully briefed about changing requirements in the USA market. The USFDA is launching a new Fishery Products Guide in 2006. To be up to date, aware of the changes and to be able to meet the relevant people making and enforcing the new arrangements is significant. There will be training implications for Australia. The Conference - relevant to SSA activities in food safety, quality and chain management and potentially other new areas for the industry eg new CRC, Promotion & Market Development, etc as well as FRDC/SSA consumer education information. NFI meeting – learning of their handling of change relevant to issues in Australia.

Objectives

1. Promoting Australia’s work on the issues to be discussed at both Conference and Meeting and influencing any international decisions that are discussed in the two forums. By contributing expertise and knowledge to the forums the opportunity to influence discussions on two levels – regulatory area and research area. Both are relevant to Australia due to reliance on international markets and potential flow on to domestic market.
2. Gather information including contacts from both the forums to ensure that the Australian Seafood Industry is fully aware of the outcomes and can utilise the information to maximise its position.
3. Identifying any issues that could be considered by the Australian Seafood Industry/SSA/FRDC in development and communication areas based discussions with National Fisheries Institute (NFI)

Final report

Establishment of the Seafood Services Australia Stage 1 - seafood quality management and seafood safety (SeaQual Australia)

Project number: 1999-357
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $1,519,007.63
Principal Investigator: Ted Loveday
Organisation: Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Project start/end date: 30 Mar 1999 - 30 Mar 2004
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Like many of Australia's primary industries the seafood industry needs to adjust constantly to changing consumer preferences and expectations and changing market conditions. The seafood industry also has to contend with changes in the availability of the resource.

Industry and governments throughout Australia recognise the need to support the continued growth of an internationally competitive sustainable seafood industry in Australia. This need has resulted in a significant increase in the pace and scope of regulatory reform and policy changes (environmental management, food safety, occupational health and safety, training, marketing etc). Thus the operating environment is in a state of constant change as it moves towards one of increased industry self regulation and responsibility.

There are significant challenges in achieving sustainable industry development - one of the most pressing is the need to drive a cultural change which results in an industry following world's best practice in management and operations ensuring that there is maximum return for the resource.

Consumers and therefore governments are increasingly demanding assurance that the food they eat is safe. Regulatory reform in this area is being driven by the Australia New Zealand Food Authority in the development and implementation of the proposed National Food Safety Code. Victoria has already passed their legislation and other States have drafted legislation ready for consideration by their governments.

The international trade environment is also changing rapidly with increased scope for implementation of non tariff barriers to exports - typically relating to food quality and environmental management. The economic crisis in Asia has already negatively affected the levels of Australian seafood exports, a trend which is expected to continue unless there is an increased focus on identifying and meeting the needs of the marketplace.

Developing seafood industry standards (accepted nationally and internationally) incorporating food safety, quality and environmental management elements provides a significant opportunity to ensure change occurs to meet these challenges.

With the operating environment changing so rapidly there is an increasing need for the development and adoption of seafood industry standards (accepted nationally and internationally) incorporating food safety, quality and environmental management elements. The standards development process provides a significant opportunity to ensure that the cultural change required to achieve the vision for the industry will occur.

The capabilities that are proposed to be brought under an "Australian Seafood Centre" (ASC) would provide the impetus to develop and manage the adoption of such standards and would provide coordinated products and services to all stakeholders.. With many industry development initiatives existing at State and National level there are significant opportunities for achieving a bigger and faster impact through better networking and integration. The ASC would provide a focus for post harvest initiatives, creating critical mass for achieving significant outcomes to benefit all stakeholders (government and industry).

The recently released SeaQual strategic plan "The Seafood industry's Strategic Plan for Achieving Seafood Excellence" identifies five key goals and a number of strategies for achieving them. The plan identifies the roles and responsibilities of industry and government stakeholders and recognises that success will depend on commitment from all stakeholders including the allocation of appropriate resources.

At the recent workshop held in Queensland, all States identified the need for work to be done in relation to seafood safety and quality, particularly in the development of agreed and accredited industry guidelines and in the eventual development of agreed industry standards. It was agreed that SeaQual Australia could provide immediate benefits to all States by providing key linkages with agencies with responsibility for food regulation and by networking the State based SeaQual operations.

The proposed development of an “Australian Seafood Centre” initially with seafood safety and quality management capabilities – SeaQual Australia is a major and complex project which will need both a strategic and an operational focus. It will meet the need to manage and review the implementation of the Strategic Plan while achieving the synergies and consequent cost efficiencies through the provision of a “single window” to the seafood industry on food safety and quality issues. It will ultimately do the same for all post harvest activities.

Objectives

1. Establish SeaQual Australia (SeaQual Mark 2) and State SeaQuals in each State and the Northern Territory
2. Implement the Seafood Industry's Strategic Plan for Achieving Seafood Excellence" (SISPASE) with a high priority on Food Safety and Quality Management
3. Establish the Australian Seafood Centre: delivery of cost effective, competitively priced seafood post harvest services through the integration of new and existing services (including SeaQual Australia) under one centre

SSA core membership of the Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence

Project number: 2007-240
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $30,000.00
Principal Investigator: Jayne M. Gallagher
Organisation: Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Project start/end date: 30 Jul 2007 - 1 Aug 2007
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The rapidly changing global trading environment is placing increasing demands on Australia's seafood
industry to demonstrate that their product is safe and that it will not cause illness now or in the future.
Meeting these demands means that seafood businesses need to understand and manage the food
safety risks associated with their products and processes.

Changes to the natural environment, including through increased pollution of the marine environment
has resulted in new and emerging food safety issues that need to be better understood to enable them to
be managed. Development of new products and processs designed to increase shelf life and improve
convenience to the consumers also pose food safety management challenges.

Meeting these needs individually would require significant investment. Tapping into a global network of
experts and undertaking research as part of a national food industry development effort will leverage
investment into these areas.

Objectives

1. As a core member of the Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence, help build the Australian seafood industry's capacity to produce safe and high quality foods that meet market requirements, underpin standards development and risk communication and innovate in food safety management practices
2. As a core member of the Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence, influence the direction of food safety research and development that benefits the seafood industry
3. As a core member of the Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence, gain fast access to information and advice about emerging food safety issues and options for management
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-907
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: COMMUNAL PROJECT: Seafood CRC Participation in the Seafood Access Forum (SAF)

The goal of the Seafood CRC is to double the value of the Australian seafood industry to $4billion per annum by 2017 and to generate more than 2,800 jobs in rural and regional areas. Achieving this goal will require a concerted effort by the Seafood CRC, its core participants and collaborators over...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood Services Australia Ltd
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