A new year often heralds a flurry of resolutions, predictions and trends. In our Top Trends for 2014 article on p.14, leading packaging executives at major brand owners talk about costs, collaboration, competition, sustainability and more...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will publish a final rule amending the food additive regulations to no longer provide for the use of bisphenol-A (BPA)-based epoxy resins as coatings in infant formula packaging because this use has been...
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Innovative designs for packaging wine have taken off in recent years. Although the proverbial bag-in-box design has been around for more than 20 years, the use of PET as a replacement for glass bottles for wine has been around for less than a...
How can companies be prepared to make sure they’re keeping up on fast-changing regulations and bans of this popular cushioning material?While there are more than 50 expanded polystyrene (EPS) bans in effect for foodservice packaging across the...
Many packaging materials, past and present, are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which quickly clears the way for the products to be used commercially. However, the GRAS review process itself has...
Many packaging materials are used on the basis that they are “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a process which can quickly clear the way for products to be used commercially. However, the GRAS...
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued a pre-regulatory draft proposal, which would repeal the current regulatory warning requirements under Proposition 65 and adopt new ones that would require more...
