Food Packaging

Food packaging is packaging for food. A package provides protection, tampering resistance, and special physical, chemical, or biological needs. It may bear a nutrition facts label and other information about food being offered for sale. A choice of packaging machinery requires consideration of technical capabilities, labour requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floor space, flexibility (change-over, materials, etc.), energy usage, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency, productivity, and ergonomics, at a minimum.

  • Novel Food Packaging Techniques
  • Food & Beverage Packaging Materials: Pros & Cons
  • Nanomaterials in Food Packaging
  • Packaging Migration Testing
  • Food Defense Mechanisms
  • Anti­microbial Systems for Food Packaging
  • Micro Packaging
  • Foreseeable Use Assessment
  • Physical Hazard Assessment
  • Restricted Substance Testing