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CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences for Industry
CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences provides world-class food and nutrition research capability to the Australian food and health industries and works with them to support the wellbeing of consumers.
- 28 July 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011
- Capabilities and facilities
- People and contacts
- Capability profiles
- Locations
- Working with us
- Food Industry and Related Services Team (FIRST)
- Online tools
Capabilities and facilities
CSIRO is Australia’s premier provider of food and nutrition research with our post-farm gate research capability within CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences being delivered to Industry, Government and CSIRO’s National Research Flagships.
People and contacts
Meet our dedicated, experienced and highly qualified people and find key contacts at People and Places.
Capability profiles
We provide research capability in eight main areas:
- Sustainable Food Processing
- Food Process Engineering
- Food Material Science
- Nutrition, Behaviour and Health
- Food Ingredients
- Genomics
- Food and Gut Microbiology
- Sensory Science.
Locations
We operate at four main sites around Australia with an additional collaborative presence in Western Australia.
Working with us
We put world-class research, technology and infrastructure at your service.
Your work is confidential, and project budgets and timelines are agreed in advance.
If intellectual property (IP) is created as a result, ownership is shared according to the contribution of resources. So if you pay for all the work, you own all the IP.
Food Industry and Related Services Team (FIRST)
FIRST offers unique Australian capabilities and industry support services.
The team members are available for conducting a range of analyses to assist businesses by problem solving and consulting, particularly in relation to food microbiology and food packaging.
Find out more about our services.
Online tools
We offer a range of online tools to assist the Food Industry with their research requirements.
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Fast facts
- We work in partnership with both public and private sector organisations to support the wellbeing of consumers
- We work with industry to help them develop innovative, healthy and market-ready food products
- Our research capability is based upon talented people, world-class facilities and partnerships that are built on over 80 years of experience
