Plastics in Food Packaging Conference: Proceedings of the 8th Annual Foodlas Conference March 5-7, 1991 Orlando, Florida

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Session 1 – How Supermarkets Look at Plastics
Plastics and the Purchasing Equation
Plastics, the Good, the Bad and the Opportunity
Thoughts About Plastics Packaging from a Food Retailer
Plastics for Fresh, Chilled, and Baked Products
Plastics Packaging and the Environment: Your Facts, Our Facts, Reality
Session 2 – How Food Processors Look at Plastics
Teaming Up Plastic Packaging with Food Products—a 10-Year Retrospective & An Assessment of the Challenges Ahead
Plastic Food Packaging—A Sound Environmental Choice
Microwave Packaging at Golden Valley
Food Packaging: Implications and Considerations for Recycled Plastics
Banquet Speaker
On Thinking About Packaging and Our Environment
Session 3 – How Food Companies Use Plastics
Campbell Soup and Plastics—What's Next
What’s It Going to Be: Flexible, Rigid, Microwaveable, Dual Ovenable, or What?
Flexible Packaging and the Environment
Solid Waste Solutions for Food and Beverage Packages
Session 4 – Regulations for Plastics Packaging: What’s Coming?
Solid Waste Packaging Issues: GMA’s Perspective
Should We or Shouldn’t We? That is the Question
Food Manufacturer/Packaging Supplier: Sharing the Burden of Proposition 65
FTC Actions with Respect to Environmental Claims
An FDA Perspective of Regulations for Food Packaging
Legislative Initiatives Affecting Plastic Packaging for Foods
Session 5 – Design for Plastics Packaging
Design Considerations for Plastics Packaging
Barrier Packaging Technologies—What Are the Alternatives?
Polyesters for Monolithic Barrier Food Packaging
Chilled Foods: Packaging for Freshness
EZO Semi–Rigid Packaging System
Interaction of Packaging & Foods to Provide Superior Quality Microwaveable Food Products
Defining and Developing the Environmental Performance of Plastics Packaging