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Novel foods
In the option strand, Contemporary food issues: Marketplace, you learn to identify trends in the marketplace. Producers and manufacturers find and develop new ingredients and new food products that have not traditionally been eaten in the past. A relatively new term used to describe these foods is novel foods. This tutorial gives you the opportunity to find out more about novel foods and to consider the safety and impact of such foods.
Outcomes
This material addresses aspects of the following syllabus outcome:
H3.2 A
student independently investigates contemporary food issues.
Extract from Stage 6 Food Technology Syllabus © Board of Studies NSW 1999.
Activity 1
To find out more about novel foods 
visit the Food Standards Australia New Zealand web site.
Type Novel foods and locate the following document: Microsoft Word - Novel Food Guidelines - October 2005.
Summarise the information presented as bullet points.
Assessing the safety of new foods and technologies
Foods and food processing technologies with a long history of use are generally considered safe. FSANZ has developed pre-market safety assessments for new foods that have not traditionally been part of our diet (novel foods) and new food processing technologies such as food irradiation and genetically modified food. These foods cannot be sold in Australia and New Zealand unless they have passed stringent pre-market safety assessments conducted by FSANZ.
The Guidelines for Novel
Foods outlines how FSANZ assesses the safety of novel foods in the
marketplace... The Australia New Zealand Food
Standards Code has provisions which govern the preparation and supply of
novel foods, genetically modified foods and irradiated foods.
Extract
from Novel foods, viewed 13.12.02, <www.foodstandards.gov.au/whatsinfood/assessingthesafetyof387.cfm>
Activity 2
Select one novel food and discuss the relationship between developments in the food industry and trends in the marketplace in relation to that novel food.
The keyword discuss means you need to identify issues and provide points for and against.
Discussion scaffold
Paragraph 1: |
identify the developments and trends relating to the novel food |
Paragraph 2: |
list the argurments for and against for each identified development and trend in paragraph 1 |
Paragraphs 3-6: |
expand the arguments |
Concluding paragraph: |
state the relationship between the development and the trend in the marketplace. |
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