Smart or intelligent packaging is revolutionising food safety and supply chain transparency. These innovations involve embedded technologies that monitor, track, or communicate information about a ...

According to experts, food and drink brands will need to consider several design priorities when developing packaging in 2025. Even as tariffs make packaging more expensive, sustainable materials ...

In the food business, where the only constant is how fast trends evolve, packaging has become more than a way to hold goods. It has evolved to provide brands with new ways to deliver consumers a ...

Simply using your food packaging in the manner it's supposed to be used is enough to contaminate your comestibles with a sprinkling of microplastics. A painstaking review of 103 scientific studies ...

Food packaging can chemically react with food. You may have observed this if you’ve ever stored tomato sauce in a plastic tub and seen a reddish residue in the container that doesn’t wash off.

New research analyzes 103 scientific studies related to microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) from food packaging and other food contact articles (FCAs). The normal and intended use of FCAs is a ...

A separate investigation by the Food Packaging Forum published in September 2024 found more than 3,600 chemicals leach into consumer products during food manufacturing, processing, packaging and ...

There are an estimated 14,000 known chemicals in food packaging. And according to a newly published study, more than 3,600 of them could now be lurking in your body. Here's what you need to know.

Ascertaining which food packaging material is the most sustainable is difficult, given the many ways you could judge such a thing. “The most sustainable solution for any given food application depends ...

Food packaging from around the world contains at least 68 “ forever chemicals” that can seep into what we eat, a new study finds. And 61 of them are not even supposed to be used in such products.