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Food Packaging News
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 | Get the micro-oxygen out
Locking out oxygen is one of the primary functions of food and beverage packaging, but ongoing research suggests oxygen levels for shelf-stable foods are so high, the likelihood of delivering a quality product is remote, regardless of the package used.
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 | Snack apps
For the beleaguered snack-and-soda vending business, help is on the way in the form of iPhone-inspired interactive machines.
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 | A slice of the eco pie
Everybody loves a winner, and a bakery’s cheesecake-shipping success is powering a bandwagon for its packaging suppliers.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | What are packages saying?
The FDA warning letter was bad enough, but what really galled David Glasser was being lumped in with certain companies and singled out from others.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | Convenience packs boost sugar sales
For the casual baker, premeasured packets of brown sugar proved to be a convenience they were willing to pay a premium for over the holiday baking season.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | Fresh, safe food for Fido
How much are dog owners willing to spend on quality pet food? Investors are betting a lot.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | Packets of herbs and vitamins
If the kids turn up their noses at Flintstone vitamins, maybe a packet of Italian herbs laced with B12 and niacin for their pizza is the way to ensure balanced nutrition.
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 | Dispenser pioneer passes away
Curtis Allina’s departure from Pez Candy Inc. in 1979 was abrupt, but his contribution to both the company and food packaging will live on for years.
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 | A raspberry for excess headspace
The January edition of Consumer Reports magazine takes aim at food packages that seem to promise more than they deliver, with Lay’s potato chips cited as exhibit A.
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 | Delaware microbrewery likes aluminum
Chalk up another craft brewery in the aluminum-container column: 16 Mile Brewing Co., a start-up brewery in Georgetown, DE, debuted its Old Court Ale and Amber Sun Ale in 22 oz. aluminum bottles in June.
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 | The well-engineered cap
Premium products demand premium delivery systems, which is why a Texas salad dressing maker pioneered the use of a no-drip, no-glop closure.
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Three cheers for a reclosable pouch
Every container company is playing the green card these days, so it isn’t surprising that a new Canadian copacker would choose to call itself the Eco-Container Corp.
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Me-too tray is step-saver
The better-mousetrap principle applies to the new snap-tray container from Sealed Air’s Cryovac division.
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 | Licensing expands single-serve coffee
While hard times have taken a bite out of the gourmet coffee business, indulgent caffeine consumption continues to propel single-serve coffee sales, both for in-home and at-work consumption.
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 | Another victory for synthetic closures over cork
It was a small skirmish in the continuing war of the wine-bottle stoppers, but a recent filling and capping operation at a small winery in Walla Walla, WA marked another victory for synthetic closures over cork.
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 | Soups on, with new look
Gluten-free gnocchi, gluten-free beer, gluten-free soup: The dietary options for America’s estimated 2 million sufferers of celiac disease might soon rival their numbers, though food producers are uncertain if gluten-free is a fad or a trend.
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 | No whitewash in this bottle
Insincere sustainability claims expose companies to charges of greenwashing. Likewise, faux tie-ins to breast cancer fundraising has spawned a new term: pinkwashing.
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 | Foodservice’s sustainability champions
With their ability to tell a story while standing on a supermarket shelf, retail packaging easily flags a change in recyclable content or biodegradability.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | Laceration-free kids' snack
Technology needs to find its market, and packaging professionals at Crown Holdings Inc., along with their US food-manufacturing clients, are keeping an eye on a healthy snack launched in September in France and other European countries to see if it clicks with mothers and their children.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | Waste as a fashion statement
An organic dairy was the first food company to pay citizens to return empty containers; now mainstream snack-food companies are climbing on board.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | Lean, green and chalky
Calcium carbonate is touted as a tough, earth-friendly material in sustainability circles, and its applications in global packaging are growing.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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 | Fresh lobster with legs
Seven days is the longest shelf life lobster meat gets, and that’s not long enough for retail distribution.
by Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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