Gluten-free gnocchi, gluten-free beer, gluten-free soup: The dietary options for America’s estimated 2 million sufferers of celiac disease might soon rival their numbers, though food producers are uncertain if gluten-free is a fad or a trend.
Insincere sustainability claims expose companies to charges of greenwashing. Likewise, faux tie-ins to breast cancer fundraising has spawned a new term: pinkwashing.
With their ability to tell a story while standing on a supermarket shelf, retail packaging easily flags a change in recyclable content or biodegradability.
Technology needs to find its market, and packaging professionals at Crown Holdings Inc., along with their US food-manufacturing clients, are keeping an eye on a healthy snack launched in September in France and other European countries to see if it clicks with mothers and their children.
Economic constraints are impacting all operations areas, but packaging professionals aren’t suspending efforts to improve sustainability and flexibility.
Gaining FDA approval of a cleaning process for recycled polyethylene terephthalate enabled Associated Packaging Technologies to create a dual-ovenable tray for frozen foods. Use with ConAgra brands will divert 8