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Joe Hackney, speaker of North Carolina’s state House, has been elected president of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Datamonitor has published Containers & Packaging: Global Industry Guide, which includes data on market size and segmentation, profiles of leading companies and textual analysis of key trends and competitive landscape.

Unilever has sold its Bertolli line of olive oils and vinegars to Spanish company Grupo SOS SA.

TerraCycle, a company that turns used or excess packaging into accessories like handbags and other products, has struck a partnership with Kraft Foods.

ConAgra has announced an initiative to incorporate post-consumer recycled plastic into the trays used for most of its frozen foods.

Concerns about food recalls, rising prices for food and gasoline, and other situations are leading to changes in consumer attitudes and behaviors, according to recent studies and surveys.

A team of Swiss chemical engineers has developed a film coated with nanoparticles of silver and calcium phosphate, which can be used in both food processing and packaging to inhibit pathogen growth.

Pringles is inviting consumers to design their own potato chip canister.

Three major grocery store chains asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block consumers from suing over violating government food labeling rules.

General Mills and Campbell Soup Co. are in a war of soup advertisements.