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

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

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 ...

“We know that many chemicals leach from food packaging into foodstuffs, but lack hazard data and information on human exposure for most,” says Muncke. But we do know that there are risks from ...

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

Plastics are ubiquitous in our modern world, and they are used in a wide variety of applications. One area where plastics have proven especially valuable is in rigid packaging.  Rigid plastic ...

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 ...

In an effort to reduce their plastic waste, all of Sainsbury’s doughnuts and pastries which were previously sold in plastic ...

The name Ella Mills doesn’t tend to appear alongside the chefs and food writers regularly credited with changing the face of ...

Creating a compost bin is much easier than many people think. Get started with layers of ‘browns’ (aka carbon) and ‘greens’ ...

Cosmoprof 2024 brought together professionals, brands, and trendsetters from across the world for a dynamic showcase of the ...