The frozen food industry has seen tremendous growth over the past few decades, offering consumers the convenience of quick, ready-to-eat meals, snacks, and ingredients. While the benefits of frozen ...

Fresh produce growers and exporters are worried that proposed restrictions on plastic packaging regulations advancing globally will have tremendous consequences on food safety and waste, and are ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Food packaging from five countries has complex, unique chemical fingerprints, and some items contain thousands of different chemicals, according to a new study (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024, DOI: ...

As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you. By Kim Severson If it seems ...

New research reveals that common food packaging and utensils can shed microscopic plastics into our food, prompting urgent calls for stricter testing and updated regulations to protect public health.

Sometimes the packing is worse for your body than the food it holds. Here are several foods with packaging linked to cancer.

James Cronin received funding from the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council as co-investigators of the 'Plastic Packaging in People's Lives' (PPiPL) project. Project Reference: NE/V010611/1. More ...

Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found. Once there, these chemicals can mimic — or disrupt — the effects of ...