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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.

Insincere sustainability claims expose companies to charges of greenwashing. Likewise, faux tie-ins to breast cancer fundraising has spawned a new term: pinkwashing.

With their ability to tell a story while standing on a supermarket shelf, retail packaging easily flags a change in recyclable content or biodegradability.

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.

At first blush, White Wave Food’s Stok black coffee shots look like any other 0.5 oz. creamer in a Bosch thermoformed cup. 

Economic constraints are impacting all operations areas, but packaging professionals aren’t suspending efforts to improve sustainability and flexibility.

An organic dairy was the first food company to pay citizens to return empty containers; now mainstream snack-food companies are climbing on board.

Gaining FDA approval of a cleaning process for recycled polyethylene terephthalate enabled Associated Packaging Technologies to create a dual-ovenable tray for frozen foods. Use with ConAgra brands will divert 8

Calcium carbonate is touted as a tough, earth-friendly material in sustainability circles, and its applications in global packaging are growing.

Seven days is the longest shelf life lobster meat gets, and that’s not long enough for retail distribution.