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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Western” food brands, designers face a daunting challenge: go more generic and risk cultural appropriation, or go too niche ...

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

Isabella Rossellini in the Green Porno is incredible - it’s charming, hilarious, absurd and remarkably informative. Her ...