The confetti effect involves using the same colour as the product, albeit a few shades brighter and meshed on top to make food colour more intense. But for most packaging, the colours sit beside ...

Chemicals used in food packaging and linked with health problems have been detected in the human body. The chemicals can move ...

Plastic waste is a global problem, and the food sector is one of its main drivers. It only takes a quick visit to a ...

Shrink-wrap sealed around a piece of raw meat. Takeout containers filled with restaurant leftovers. Plastic bottles filled ...

With the move, Mondelez said that up to 50% of the plastic in the bag-in-box liner films for Triscuit will be sourced from an ...

The researchers, led by scientists from a Swiss nonprofit called the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, looked at data on more than 14,000 food contact chemicals — substances in containers or ...

The study, which was published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, discovered that thousands of ...

As a global industry that continues to expand, the food processing sector now uses an ever expanding range of equipment and machinery to cook, prepare and package food products. Food processing ...

Sept. 17, 2024 – People ingest tiny, chemical-containing bits of things that touch the food and drink we consume every day. There are a vast number of sources of these chemicals, ranging from ...

Plastic bottles filled with soft drinks. These are just a few types of food packaging that surround humans every day. And a new study released Monday shows the chemical toll of all that wrapping ...

A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach into food during the packaging process. Of that number, 79 chemicals are known to cause cancer, genetic mutations, and endocrine and ...

More than 3,600 chemicals that leach into food during the manufacturing, processing, packaging and storage of the world’s food supply end up in the human body — and some are connected to ...