There are an estimated 14,000 known chemicals in food packaging. And according to a newly published study, more than 3,600 of ...

Those oranges in the supermarket may not be as orange as you think. A recent article in the scientific journal Perception ...

Chemicals used in food packaging and linked with health problems have been detected in the human body. The chemicals can move ...

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Plastic waste is a global problem, and the food sector is one of its main drivers. It only takes a quick visit to a ...

Shrink-wrap sealed around a piece of raw meat. Takeout containers filled with restaurant leftovers. Plastic bottles filled with soft drinks. These are just a few types of food packaging that ...

That works out to be 25% of known food contact chemicals, sometimes called FCCs. Among the worrying aspects of their findings was just how little is known about most of the chemicals, particularly ...

Sometimes navigating a nutrition label can be tricky for folks experiencing a dietary-related illness or just wanting to be ...

The smell of freshly baked bread when you walk into a Sainsbury’s is enough to entice anyone into the bakery aisle. Before ...

The researchers, led by scientists from a Swiss nonprofit called the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, looked at data on more than 14,000 food contact chemicals — substances in containers or ...

A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach into food during the packaging process. Of that number, 79 chemicals are known to cause cancer, genetic mutations, and endocrine and ...

The confetti effect involves using the same colour as the product, albeit a few shades brighter and meshed on top to make food colour more intense. But for most packaging, the colours sit beside ...