Food Packages 39, the review

Beer packaging: what packaging material is most frequently used in beer and why? Euromonitor says that glass is still number one in each region of the world. The only exception is North America, where the can prevails. According to the forecast data, things will not change a lot with 2014. But overall, beverage cans still remains a popular format for beer in Europe, holding 20% share in the beer sector. In particular, the larger 50 cl can is more popular in traditional beer drinking cultures such as the UK, Eastern Europe and Germany. We asked Caroline Archer, Marketing Director, Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East, a business unit of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) why can is so popular.

Active Packaging: a study on the use of natural antimicrobial compounds to improve the microbiological stability of refrigerated amaranth-based homemade fresh pasta is presented in the article "Long life to fresh pasta!"

Migration and controls: the system food-packaging-environment creates interlaced interactions to calculate and to control. What to control? How to control? Which news from the most important European laboratories and research centers? The answer in the dossier with interviews to opinion leaders form main laboratories and institutes in Europe (Fraunhofer Institute, Innventia; Silliker, TNO). 

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