Food & Drug Packaging

Nanotechnology is being touted as a potential vehicle for sustainable packaging and attacked as an enemy of the...

Wal-Mart Stores will add radio frequency identification (RFID) reading capability to another 400 of its stores, joining the...

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) has established a website of resources for water bottlers, including suppliers of...

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) has awarded scholarships totaling $9,500 to four Virginia Tech packaging students. Virginia...

Dole Foods has opened a $54 million salad packaging plant in Bessemer City, N.C. The 285,000-square-foot plant will...

Abbott Laboratories has opened a manufacturing plant in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. The $450 million, 330,000-square-foot facility will produce...

Registration is now open for the Worldwide Food Expo, the biennial food technology show to be held Oct....

Sargento Foods has acquired Portionables Inc., a manufacturer of frozen sauces and other quick-frozen, portion-controlled products....

Novartis AG recently announced that Joseph Jiminez has been named chief executive officer of Novartis Consumer Health....

A conference on the technicalities of producing bottles from polylactic acid (PLA), a leading corn-based polymer, will be...

Food processors are coming up with an array of new products, both frozen and fresh, that are intended...

Responding to complaints about appealing to underage drinkers, Anheuser-Busch has pulled a malt beverage product packaged in 2-ounce...

Consumers in Russia are demanding labels that identify food made without genetically modified organisms (GMO). Foods sold in...

Clamshells, blisters and other packaging that exposes product will rise to sales of $8.5 billion by 2010, according...

Want to get people to recycle more? Put a bug in their bin. Communities on both sides of...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently eliminated a long-standing barrier to irradiating prepackaged foods and...

When it comes to packaging, "environmental friendliness" has now become "sustainability." That's the new buzzword for responsible packaging....

How much are you willing to pay for your own food safety? Would you pay a cent more...

Three stock-keeping units of Kraft Foods Maxwell House instant coffee now come with lids designed for easier opening,...

A new retail "tote bag" for Miller Lite beer features integral handles and the capacity to hold a...