News tagged with food packages
Dangerous chemicals in food wrappers likely migrating to humans: study
University of Toronto scientists have found that chemicals used to line junk food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags are migrating into food and being ingested by people where they are contributing to chemical contamination ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Chemical engineers find high-yield method of making xylene from biomass
A team of chemical engineers led by Paul J. Dauenhauer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a new, high-yield method of producing the key ingredient used to make plastic bottles from biomass. The process ...
Apr 30, 2012 |
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China to step up fight against plastic addiction
China will expand a ban on free shopping bags, state media said, as it tries to further curb its addiction to plastic in a bid to rid the country of "white pollution" that clogs waterways, farms and fields.
May 29, 2011 |
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Killer paper for next-generation food packaging
Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests of "killer paper," a material intended for use as a new food packaging material that helps preserve foods by fighting the bacteria that cause spoilage. The paper, ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Active packaging keeps meat fresh for longer
To date, supermarkets have only been able to keep products on their meat counters for a few days. But now researchers have developed an antimicrobial active packaging film that destroys the microorganisms ...
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels (Update)
(AP) -- Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs: These are some of the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels that will take up half of each cigarette package.
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Licensed Characters on Food Packaging Affect Kids' Taste Preferences, Snack Selections
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children significantly prefer the taste of junk foods branded with licensed cartoon characters on the packaging, compared with the same foods without characters, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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'Nano-bricks' may help build better packaging to keep foods fresher longer
Scientists are reporting on a new material containing an ingredient used to make bricks that shows promise as a transparent coating for improving the strength and performance of plastic food packaging. Called "nano-bricks," ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Australia proposes tough cigarette packaging rules
(AP) -- Tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to strip all logos from their cigarette packages and replace them with graphic images such as cancer-riddled mouths and sickly children under legislation unveiled Thursday ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Magnetic actuation enables nanoscale thermal analysis
Polymer nano-films and nano-composites are used in a wide variety of applications from food packaging to sports equipment to automotive and aerospace applications. Thermal analysis is routinely used to analyze ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Big on obesogens: Biologist believes industrial pollutants contributing to America's obesity epidemic
(PhysOrg.com) -- With obesity emerging as a leading health threat to Americans, it’s easy to blame a couch-potato culture addicted to calorie-rich foods. But UC Irvine biologist Bruce Blumberg doesn’t believe ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 19, 2009 |
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New antibacterial material for bandages, food packaging, shoes
A new form of paper with the built-in ability to fight disease-causing bacteria could have applications that range from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresher longer to shoes that ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Meltdown 101: Package sizes at the grocery store
(AP) -- Your eyes are not deceiving you in the grocery store. Yes, your bag of Doritos just got bigger. No, the price didn't change.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 26, 2009 |
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First peer-reviewed study finds BPA levels in US foods 1,000 times less than limits
For the first time in the United States, researchers are reporting in a peer-reviewed scientific journal today detection of Bisphenol A (BPA) in fresh and canned food as well as food wrapped in plastic packaging.
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Consumers more likely to identify healthy food using traffic light nutrition labels
Consumers are five times more likely to identify healthy food when they see colour-coded traffic light nutrition labels than when labels present the information numerically by showing what percentage of the recommended daily ...
May 07, 2009 |
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