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Articles on Food packaging
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Shoppers struggle to make sense of food labels – and aren’t always sure what they’re eating.
Do we really need to celebrate with boxes and plastic?
Asian countries have become a dumping ground for the plastic waste from wealthy countries.
Zero-packaging stores provide a systemic solution to a globalised food industry dependent on plastic packaging.
Christmas is hectic, and it can be easy just to go with the flow and vow to cut your plastic use in the new year. But here are some easy steps you can take now to make your Christmas plastic-free.
Much of the trash on Canadian shorelines can be traced to five food companies. We could soon see more compostable and edible packaging.
US firm HeatGenie is hoping to revive a technology that has surprising origins in World War II and beyond.
Food is just food … or is it?
Parents need to know the truth about formula milk.
There is a curious paradox at the heart of the food group’s new nutrition scheme: the less consumers trust Big Food, the less attention they will pay to the labels.
Because chocolate gifts need their glasnost too.
While a single, smaller portion leads people to eat less, having multiple smaller portions on offer appears to lead some people - notably the diet-conscious - to eat more.
Using edible films to cover meat and poultry significantly lowers the risk of bacteria growing on the food, according to…
Environmental scientists have warned the long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health. In a paper published in the Journal of…
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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