Dear All,
Before there can be any serious attempt to create a commercial range of food products from Australian Native Foods, it is important to ascertain who is growing what and how much - in essence an industry stock take.
Please complete the questionnaire with as much information as you are able to provide. All responses are completely confidential and for the sole purpose of gathering supply data that may be applicable to the commercial development of Australian native foods.
Although this questionnaire is directed mainly towards growers, all manufacturers should endeavour to provide as much information as possible on their products plus the possibility of commercial applications.
If there are any questions please do not hesitate in contacting me.
Yours sincerely
ADRIENNA ZSAKAY
TEL: 08 - 8333 - 2516
2 Marchant Street
Kensington
Adelaide, 5061

A fairly long article and only a brief mention of bushfoods - but thought it worthwhile to put it up with a link to the form in question - Australian Quality Plus.

from 'My Small Business', www.smh.com.au

From Adelaide to the world

Anneli Knight | March 5, 2008

When you hear Steve Marafiote has been working in the food business for more than 20 years it might not come as a surprise to discover his company turns over $25 million a year.

What might surprise is that Marafiote is only 32. His company Australian Quality Plus is less than five years old and his first job in the industry was serving customers in his family's fruit shop in Adelaide.

''Every day after school I was working, and on the weekends too. I started serving customers when I was 11 years old,'' Marafiote says.

Marafiote still works seven days a week but his customer base has shifted from grocery shoppers in suburban Adelaide to the likes of the King of Jordan, the Sheik of Dubai, Emirates Airlines and the Burj-Al Arab seven-star hotel. And that's only in the Middle East.

Australian Quality Plus supplies perishable foods - dairy, meat, fruit, vegetables and Australian bush foods - to 24 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe and island nations including Mauritius and the Maldives. Its target markets include hotel chains and high end food providers.

From the Sydney Morning Herald
Joel Gibson
INDIGENOUS Australians have eaten them for tens of thousands of years and scientists are now telling us they are among the world's best sources of vitamins and anti-oxidants.
But sales of Australian native foods are being hindered by stringent international laws that treat them as "novel foods" alongside genetically modified crops and food engineered by state-of-the-art nanotechnology.
It is one of the reasons, say industry experts, that a dozen Australian "superfruits" are still a novelty on menus from Paris to London and Montreal. Sibylla Hess-Buschmann, a native foods grower and researcher, has spent the past 18 months collecting documentation to prove that ancient Australian foods such as lemon myrtle and Kakadu plum are not novel exports to the European Union.
Since the establishment of the EU and the mad cow disease scare, stringent food safety regulations have required importers to prove products are not new, or face shipments being impounded. South American countries have called the EU's policies protectionist and appealed to the World Trade Organisation for fairer access to EU markets for traditional foods.

From Food Australia, Feb 2009, p 42:

Global demand for Australia's desert foods (pdf)