In Las Vegas, Good Things Come in Packaging
The roles of packaging—to reduce food waste, enable clean label products, enhance product shelf life, and meet the demands of new and emerging food processing techniques—were showcased at IFT17 in symposia, poster sessions, and exhibits.
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The Food Packaging Division’s 2017 Distinguished Lecturer, Gordon Robertson, author of Food Packaging: Principles & Practice and a food packaging consultant, discussed the role of bio-based polymers derived from food byproducts in enabling more sustainable plastic packaging. “In a world of finite resources, the use of nonrenewable fossil oil and gas for plastic packaging is clearly unsustainable, leading to increasing interest in renewable bio-based resources for plastics. While …
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