This one day symposium will bring together international and national experts to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the field of nutrition and genetics that determine the quality of growth and development from conception and throughout early life.

Since the early 1990s, CSIRO has performed many clinical trials on how nutrition and exercise affect heart health. CSIRO has investigated dietary patterns, single foods, food supplements and extracts.

CSIRO researchers are encouraging parents not to forget to provide their children with healthy lunches and breakfasts in the back-to-school rush.

Internationally recognised food scientist and science leader, Professor Martin Cole, will start as the Chief of CSIRO’s Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences (FNS) in January 2010.

This course, approved by the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, will provide participants with necessary skills to design a safe and commercially viable thermal schedule for the processing of low-acid food products in cans, pouches and other hermetically sealed packaging.

Read more about the results of the study into understanding parent concerns about children’s diet, activity and weight status.

CSIRO’s nutrition and diet research is carried out with the enthusiastic cooperation of many volunteers who, over many years, and in many clinical trials, have helped to shape our knowledge about food, functional foods, diets, diseases and public health.

CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences conducts food and nutrition research to support the health and wellbeing of the Australian community and the sustainability and viability of the Australian food industry.

Researchers are analysing components that make up certain foods to determine precisely what chemical and physical effects they have when eaten. With CSIRO's expertise we will be able to tailor our diets for better health and to avoid some diseases.

In this video extract from the television program Catalyst, CSIRO's Dr Michael Fenech says that damage to the genome is a fundamental disease that can be diagnosed and treated. (8:00)

A one-minute video on how to perform the seated row resistance tube exercise from the Total Wellbeing Diet Book 2.

Dr Mahinda Abeywardena’s research focuses on diseases of the heart and blood vessels - and food components that help prevent them.

Dr Sumana Bell believes that science is the quickest road to innovation, the trick to shifting paradigm and adding value to conventional products.

Program of sessions for the 2nd Nutritional Genomics Symposium, July 30 2010, Adelaide, South Australia. (2 pages)

Registration form for the 2nd Nutritional Genomics Symposium, 30 July 2010, Adelaide, South Australia. (1 page)

Guidelines on buying, storing, and preparing seafood in Australia.

The shelf life of food is determined by a number of factors, including microbiological changes, moisture transfer, and chemical or biochemical reactions.