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2024 Worldstar Pharma and Medical Award Winners Announced

Winners include an electronic nasal lockout device to prevent overuse of pain medication, a recycle-ready blister, easy-to-open implant packaging, and more.

January 9, 2024

Takeda Doseguard

Circular Economy Data Loggers

ELPRO Services, Inc.

Returning LIBERO data loggers to Elpro offers several benefits, including helping reduce resource waste, as over 90% of all hardware components in Elpro’s data loggers can be reused or recycled.

January 9, 2024

ELPRO Circular Economy Data Loggers

Nutraceutical Blister Film is 30% Prevented Ocean Plastic

Klöckner Pentaplast

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Klöckner Pentaplast showcased the kpEnhance RM1, a clear nutraceutical blister film produced using a minimum of 30% post-consumer recycled material.

January 3, 2024

Top 10 of 2023 - #4: Healthcare Takeback Schemes 101

Join us as we look back at the most-read Healthcare Packaging stories of 2023. At #4, a consultant offered a primer on takeback and recycling schemes for pharmaceutical packaging and medical devices, offering core principles, business benefits, and more.

January 2, 2024

Ellen Struthers, principal consultant, Anthesis Group, presented at Pharmapack Europe 2023.

Top 10 of 2023 - #10: Women-founded Startup Pilots Sustainable Rx Packaging

Join us as we look back at the most-read Healthcare Packaging stories of 2023. Ten independent pharmacies piloted Parcel Health’s 100% paper-based, FSC-certified, compostable medication packaging. Third-party child-resistance testing is underway.

December 22, 2023

Parcel Health has set its eye on minimizing pharmaceutical packaging waste, starting with its first product, a pill bottle replacement called the Phill Box™.

Packaging Film for Fishery Products

Film manufacturer SÜDPACK has developed Multifol Extreme, a flexible film that provides maximum functionality and minimum added weight for fish and seafood processing and packaging companies.

December 15, 2023

Südpack Multifol

PFAS and Other Contaminants Found in Food Process Wastewater

PFAS concentrations and other contaminants found in some food process wastewater are raising concerns about environmental impacts.

December 12, 2023

Laura Hubbard collecting treated wastewater samples at a food processing facility.

Get Recognized for Your Hard Work and Bright Ideas

Started up a new plant or expanded food safety? Created a sustainability project to help meet environmental goals? We’d like to hear about it—and tell your peers why you deserve accolades.

December 7, 2023

Aaron 082720 Web

Diageo & Bacardi's Circular Spirits Format Emerges by Land, Sea, & Casino

The big spirits brands and their channel partners seek to eliminate tons of single-use packaging waste in bars, casinos, and even cruise ships with the disruptive ecoTOTE and SmartPour reusable packaging format.

December 7, 2023

A bar or restaurant that serves a sufficient quantity of a certain spirit—say Smirnoff as a house vodka, or Bacardi Superior as a house rum—can simply swap out these large glass bottles into a dispensing device behind the bar, akin to a watercooler or beer tap.

Tequila Komos and Green Loop Pioneer New Sustainable Solutions

First to utilize BIOPALL by Green Loop’s hybrid pallets and packaging made with agave production waste.

November 30, 2023

BioPall are made of 70% agave fiber and 30% wood sourced from sustainably managed forests.

McCain Foods Launches Business Unit to Advance Farming Technologies

Presia Ag Insights will help food companies, landowners, and farmers foster on-farm resilience and support the adoption of regenerative agricultural practices.

November 30, 2023

Mc Cain Farm Resilience

1nhaler Raises $2.5 Million to Develop Sustainable Inhaler

A Scotland-based drug delivery device developer, 1nhaler will use the funding to develop its unique, single-use dry powder inhaler (DPI).

November 28, 2023

Alternative Protein Sector, Despite Setbacks, Looks Healthy

A Horizons report from CRB takes an in-depth look at alternative proteins, detailing a still nascent industry that is learning how to succeed at production scale.

November 26, 2023

The cultivated meat sector is maturing, as are other alternative proteins, including mycelium-based meats and precision fermentation.

Coke, Nestle and Danone’s Recycling Claims Questioned by BEUC

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has raised concerns about the accuracy of recycling claims on plastic bottles, suggesting they mislead consumers.

November 22, 2023

Coke, Nestle And Danone’s Recycling Claims Questioned

FDA Monitoring Regulations for PFAS

The FDA is currently monitoring a phase-out of short chain PFAS and proposing regulatory changes to improve its ability to revoke food contact authorizations for such substances.

November 20, 2023

The FDA's proposed changes to food contact notification regulations would apply to all food contact substances, not just PFAS.

New York Files Lawsuit Against PepsiCo Over Plastic Packaging

The legal action names PepsiCo as the major contributor of plastic waste collected from the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo and details the actions it wants the company to undertake.

November 16, 2023

Source: People of the State of New York v Pepsico, Inc.; Frito-Lay, Inc.; Frito-Lay North America, Inc.

Cocofloss Strives for Sustainable Smiles

Aiming for oral and planetary health, floss is composed of recycled water bottles while their partners deliver vibrant, paper-based secondary packaging.

November 14, 2023

Summer Sets 02 Hr

Syringe System

The new Sanner polypropylene (PP)-based syringe system offers better adherence and more sustainability.

November 9, 2023

Sanner Pp Syringe System

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