The
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new recycling process that
eliminates the use of water for cleaning recycled polyethylene terephthalate
(RPET) flake.
Corrugated container producers are growing
pessimistic toward October’s containerboard price hike and pass-through to box
prices despite continued tight containerboard supply, according to a Longbow
Research survey.
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
introduced its on-product labels to give consumers and businesses more detailed
information supporting “green” claims.
Rising food prices would seem, logically, to motivate consumers to seek out less expensive foods. But some recent studies have shown a significant number of consumers heading in the opposite
Between 10% and 20% of people claim to have food
allergies, but the real number may only be half this, according to a study
published in the German journal Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.