I feel for Kraft Foods. It’s not easy when contamination from one of your products becomes an Internet star due to a packaging-related quality problem. More...

An innovative beverage format serves as a reminder that you learn more from your mistakes, even if that costs you your business. More…

The very first item of any kind I ever wrote about packaging was on a wine cork made from plastic. It was a good introduction to the idiosyncrasies of the wine world. More...

Biopolymer applications are springing up throughout the packaging landscape like wildflowers, adding fresh touches of “green” to markets sensitized to sustainability. More...

The caller had a Southern accent and the good manners that so often go with it. More...

We’re all familiar with those food-product-as-political-poll gimmicks. But leave it to the British to do it up right. More...

Sunnier days are ahead for a nearby consumer packaged goods company I visited last week that was making the move to solar power. More…

Every so often, I get the feeling that I and most of the people I deal with and write about might take packaging a tiny bit too seriously. And then I come across something like this. More...

The CSPI is charging that food packagers are too slack about monitoring their ‘slack fill’ practices. More…

As an inquisitive trade journal editor and modest Star Trek fan, there’s a certain allure to one of that program’s many devices: sensors. I recently discovered more about the fascinating world of sensors, but for packaging, not for starships. More…