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 Web resources

Australian Food News (AFN) - provides information and news on the food industry with a directory of food industry companies in Australia.

Australian Training Products Ltd (ATP) - a specialist publisher and distributor, providing training materials to the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. 

Chemical Information Gateway (CIG) - Australian Government site designed to help you find information about chemicals as quickly and easily as possible.

Food Australia - the official journal of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology provides online news ,articles & other information.

Food Resource - Oregon State University, has information resources, industry images and links to other sites.

Food Science Australia - provides a wide range of information including newsletters & factsheets.

FoodWorX - information about science careers in the Food & Beverage Industry.

International Food Information Council (IFIC) - communicates science-based information on food safety & nutrition to health/nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers.

National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) - provides a range of free publications relating to the accreditation for laboratories & similar testing facilities.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - provides a  wide range of information for consumers, educators & others. 

World Health Organization (WHO) - has a range of food safety publications.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 10 January, 2008

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