Just 25 years ago when aseptic packaging—in consumer-size paperboard lamination and plastic packages—burst upon the United States scene, hundreds of processors, purveyors, packagers, and assorted hangers-on hooked into the concept with all manner of variants—a few valid, but most distortions that could endanger consumers.
Notions prevailed, such as that high-acid foods could not be aseptically processed and packaged (even though the earliest and most successful commercial entities were and are hi…