This book contains papers, presented at the eighth annual FoodPlas conference held in Orlando, Florida in 1991, on the role of plastics in supermarkets, food processors and food companies, and on the regulations and design for plastics packaging.
Session 1How Supermarkets Look at Plastics
1. Plastics and the
Purchasing Equation
2. Plastics, the Good, the Bad and the Opportunity
3.
Thoughts about Plastics Packaging from a Food Retailer
4. Plastics for Fresh,
Chilled, and Baked Products
5. Plastics Packaging and the Environment: Your
Facts, Our Facts, Reality Session 2How Food Processors Look at Plastics
6.
Teaming Up Plastic Packaging with Food ProductsA 10-Year Retrospective & an
Assessment of the Challenges Ahead
7. Plastic Food PackagingA Sound
Environmental Choice
8. Microwave Packaging at Golden Valley
9. Food
Packaging: Implications and Considerations for Recycled Plastics Session
3How Food Companies Use Plastics
10. Campbell Soup and PlasticsWhats Next
11. Whats It Going to Be: Flexible, Rigid, Microwaveable, Dual Ovenable, or
What?
12. Flexible Packaging and the Environment
13. Solid Waste Solutions
for Food and Beverage Packages Session 4Regulations for Plastics Packaging:
Whats Coming?
14. Solid Waste Packaging Issues: GMAs Perspective
15. Should
We or Shouldnt We? That is the Question
16. Food Manufacturer/Packaging
Supplier: Sharing the Burden of Proposition 65
17. FTC Actions with Respect
to Environmental Claims
18. An FDA Perspective of Regulations for Food
Packaging
19. Legislative Initiatives Affecting Plastic Packaging for Foods
Session 5Design for Plastics Packaging
20. Design Considerations for
Plastics Packaging
21. Barrier Packaging TechnologiesWhat are the
Alternatives?
22. Polyesters for Monolithic Barrier Food Packaging
23.
Chilled Foods: Packaging for Freshness
24. EZO Semi-Rigid Packaging System
25. Interaction of Packaging & Foods to Provide Superior Quality
Microwaveable Food Products
26. Defining and Developing the Environmental
Performance of Plastics Packaging
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