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Improving market access

Optical scanning for pest detection in fruit

Pests and disease are a major barrier for domestic and international trade. We are developing optical scanning technologies to help protect Australia’s agriculture industry and boost trade related economic prosperity.

Boosting food safety with a digital ecosystem

Data digitisation across supply chains is enhancing Australia’s strong reputation for food quality and safety.

Menu of measures

Science-based tools, like our interactive 'menu of measures', can help improve the way trade-related plant pest risks are managed – protecting biosecurity and enabling market access.

Customer trust

We’re addressing gaps in understanding what underpins trust in food export markets, as well as how this trust delivers price premiums and market access for Australia’s agrifood sector.

Informing a national approach to traceability

Our role in the Australian Agricultural Traceability Strategic Reference Group

We are contributing scientific and technical expertise to the Australian Agricultural Traceability Strategic Reference Group. The strategic reference group comprises industry, government and the research community and has been set up to help industry enhance traceability systems in order to boost Australia’s biosecurity and grow trade relationships. The group is focusing on current and emerging issues, research priorities and implementation approaches for Australia’s agricultural traceability systems.

Latest news

A new digital ecosystem to boost food safety

Food safety is going digital to increase efficiencies for producers and regulators, while also further enhancing Australia's reputable food brand.

Backing food product claims with evidence

A new isotopic data platform will support the verification of Australian agricultural and food product claims and environmental credentials by telling us where our food comes from, and how it was grown.

Greenhouse credentials of Australia’s canola industry recognised by the European Commission

Canola is now Australia’s second most valuable crop after wheat.

CSIRO launches free program targeting SME innovation in agrifood​

Start-ups and SMEs eager to shape the future of innovation in the agrifood sector are invited to register for a new online learning program, ‘Innovate to Grow: Agrifood’, led by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency.

Growing an international appetite for Aussie apples

We’re on a mission to take more of our apples to the world by proving they are pest-free and safe for trade using new science-backed tools.

Pest management for safe trade

We're leading a safe trade project on pest and disease management measures for inter-state trade with funding from Hort Innovation.

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