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Losing your pistachios can be an expensive proposition.

Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it.

More options and new applications pique interest.

The man who invented the stretch wrapper for palletizing 36 years ago is spending his golden years reinventing the machine. 

In the past few weeks, I tried to put my finger on why the recent discussion of foods produced from animal cloning has me a little queasy.

Lasers can etch tracking codes on eggs, melons and other types of natural packaging. They also can inscribe ads and other promotional messages.

The FDA comes under fire as reports of mismanagement come to light.

Adding water aids in carrot pomace pumping, but cattle ranchers won’t pay for excess water in their feed.

A label embedded with a biosensor to detect bacterial spoilage in packaged foods is expected to make its national debut this month.

Delivering purity and proving food is pure are two different issues, and the latter has proved to be an insurmountable barrier for valves used in aseptic bags-until now.