History of CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences
References
Bastian, J. M., McBean, J. McG. and Smith, M.B. Fifty years of food research
Melbourne : CSIRO, 1979.
Vickery, J. R. Food science and technology in Australia : a review of research since 1900
North Ryde, N.S.W : CSIRO, 1990.
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Farrer, K. To feed a nation: a history of Australian food science and technology
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2005.
A history of collaboration
| 1931 | Creation of Section of Food Preservation by CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) |
| 1932 | Opening of the SFP's Cannon Hill Laboratory, co-located with Brisbane Abbatoir Collaborative fruit research with Victorian Department of Agriculture |
| 1938 | SFP establishes laboratories at Homebush Abbatoir in Sydney |
| 1939 | Creation of CSIR Section of Dairy Research, co-located at Werribee with (Victorian Governmentt) School of Dairy Technology/Dairy Research Laboratories The School comprised laboratories, lecture room, library and a model dairy factory. |
| 1940 | SFP becomes Division of Food Preservation and Transport |
| 1948 | Citrus Wastage Research Laboratory established as a collaboration between CSIR, NSW Agriculture and Sungold. Later renamed Gosford Postharvest Horticultural Laboratory. |
| 1949 | CSIR becomes CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| 1951 | DFPT collaborates on plant physiology with University of Sydney DFPT laboratory established in Hobart for seafood, fruit, potatoes |
| 1952 | First taste testing laboratory established in Sydney |
| 1955 | SDR moves to Highett |
| 1961 | DFP moves to North Ryde |
| 1962 | SDR becomes Division of Dairy Research |
| 1966 | Gilbert Chandler Institute of Dairy Technology established from Victorian Dept of Agriculture institutes at Werribee |
| 1967 | New laboratories for DFR at Cannon Hill |
| 1971 | Formation of Division of Food Research with three commodity-based laboratories |
| 1984 | DFR becomes Division of Food Science and Technology |
| 1988 | Victoria's Department of Agriculture changes the focus of research at Werribee from just dairy to all foods and renamed the Gilbert Chandler Institute of Dairy Technology to the Food Research Institute (FRI) |
| 1994 | FRI becomes Australian Food Research Institute (AFRI) |
| 1995 | AFRI becomes Australian Food Industry Science Centre (Afisc) |
| 1997 | Food Science Australia established as a unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO's Division of Food Science and Technology and Afisc |
| 1998 | Australian Cheese Technology Program (DRDC/FSA collab.) |
| 2004 | Afisc wound up |
| 2005 | Food Science Australia merges with CSIRO Unit of Human Nutrition |
| 2009 | CSIRO Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences created |
Major acheivements
| 1943 | Established an Australian citrus juice industry by setting up 20 plants with output of 6.8m litres pa |
| 1950 | Improvements to cheese starter cultures, leading to SDR becoming industry reference point |
| 1957 | Mechanisation of cheese manufacture Recombined milk powders become a new export industry |
| 1950s | Discovery and study of water activity (aw) for microbial growth prediction, the basis of food preservation theory. |
| 1955 | One of the first G-L chromatographs in Australia built at North Ryde |
| 1960s | Development of the spinning cone column |
| 1970s | Development of countercurrent extraction technology |
| 1980s | Siro-Curd™ cheesemaking process. Cheesebase™ technology. |
| 1990s | Microencapsulation technology |
| 1990s | Automated slaughtering |