In the COVID-19 outbreak, packaging is being recognized for its long-standing performance in upholding food and beverage product safety and offering consumer protection.

Food manufacturers, including Quaker Oats, Mars and Conagra, are updating packaging and branding to eliminate images or names viewed as racially insensitive.

Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottles in Europe will soon be made of one type of plastic so they can be recycled into food-grade PET.

When processors are locked in to using plastic trays, a switch to paper-based replacements to meet green packaging goals can face hurdles.

Harpak-ULMA is introducing paper-based packaging called PaperSeal to help the industry rethink its packaging systems to reduce plastic use.

The maker of Fisher nuts wanted recyclable snack canisters to replace paper-based, multi-material cans that often end up in the trash and are rising in cost.

A new quarter-sized packaging insert is keeping Mission Produce Inc. avocados fresh longer.