Sometimes the packing is worse for your body than the food it holds. Here are several foods with packaging linked to cancer.

Using the skin of an Amazonian fish known as tambatinga as the raw material, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) and EMBRAPA Pecuária Sudeste—a decentralized unit of the Brazilian ...

Food packaging materials are critical in preserving product quality, extending shelf-life and ensuring safety, while concurrently addressing environmental concerns. Conventional packaging is dominated ...

In the absence of comprehensive federal regulation of PFAS in food packaging, states are dishing out their own laws. Thus far, 13 (thirteen) states have enacted laws addressing PFAS substances in food ...

Brazilian researchers create biodegradable, collagen-based food packaging film from tambatinga fish skin, offering sustainable plastic alternative and adding value to aquaculture waste streams.

The water-proof food packaging is made from a type of corn protein called zein, starch and other naturally derived biopolymers, infused with a cocktail of natural antimicrobial compounds (see video).

Recent advances in the analysis of food packaging materials and photoinitiators are reshaping our understanding of chemical migration and its implications for food safety. Photoinitiators play a ...

If relevant stakeholders – from government to industry and consumers – play their part, recyclability can be improved and plastic pollution eliminated, believes NGO WRAP. Of the 141m tonnes of plastic ...

A team of scientists has developed a 'smart' food packaging material that is biodegradable, sustainable and kills microbes that are harmful to humans. It could also extend the shelf-life of fresh ...

Certain states around the U.S. are dishing out their own laws seeking to regulate the presence or use of PFAS in food packaging. Thus far, and while there is limited federal legislation addressing ...