AIFST Peter Seale Innovation Award

The AIFST Peter Seale Innovation Award 2026

This award celebrates a significant Australian technological advancement in the agrifood sector that has achieved tangible results in the market. The award is given in honour of AIFST Past President, Peter Seale, who held that role from 1973-1975.

The 2026 award winner is Produxiom Compliance Platform from Foodlegal Pty Ltd.

Produxiom is an Australian-developed AI-enabled compliance and workflow platform for the food and FMCG industry. The platform streamlines product specifications, packaging specifications, artwork approvals and regulatory workflows, helping businesses improve food safety, reduce compliance bottlenecks, support APCO reporting and accelerate products to market. 

The judges were pleased to grant the Peter Seale Innovation Award for 2026 to Produxiom based on the product’s technical merit, evidence of its successful application and its potential economic significance for the food industry.

They noted the innovation’s merit in bringing together regulatory, sustainability and packaging compliance to improve workflow and document approvals and to provide traceability of past decisions. If widely adopted, the innovation has the potential to improve the users’ speed to market, reduce implementation costs and rework and provide better assurance of food regulatory and other compliance requirements.

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