These and other activities also service the public need for knowledge about food, especially in relation to public health and nutrition and promote a better public understanding of the role and importance of the profession of food science and technology. The APPS is the professional association for Australian physiologists and pharmacologists, which was founded in 1960. The aim of the Society is to encourage and support the discipline of immunology in the Australasian region. The activities of the society are designed to maintain a high level of professionalism in the several disciplines of Microbiology. Members are required to follow a code of ethics and to undertake their responsibilities in a professional manner.
Members receive five issues of the society's journal each year.
There are also local, national and international meetings where microbiologists present the results of their work and review developments in a variety of related disciplines. Each year students and other members are selected for a number of awards to acknowledge excellence. The aims of the Society are to promote, develop and assist the study of, dissemination of knowledge in and advancement of the discipline of haematology. The purpose of this Society is to advance knowledge on the properties of toxins and antitoxins and to bring together scholars interested in these substances through a common Society. Membership consists of those who have conducted and published meritorious original investigations in toxinology, while persons who do not qualify for membership but are interested in the field of toxinology are eligible for associate membership.