Food packaging is a packaging system specifically designed for food and represents one of the most important aspects among the processes involved in the food industry, as it provides protection from chemical, biological and physical alterations. The main goal of food packaging is to provide a practical means of protecting and delivering food goods at a reasonable cost while meeting the needs and expectations of both consumers and industries. Additionally, current trends like sustainability, environmental impact reduction, and shelf-life extension have gradually become among the most important aspects in designing a packaging system.
Bagged cake mix
Biscuit components: plastic bottles, paper bag
Container for bulk vegetable oil
Frozen processed food freezer in supermarket
Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and for personal use.
UK Risperdal Tablets 2000 in a blister pack, which was itself packaged in a folding carton made of paperboard.
1914 magazine advertisement for cookware with instructions for home canning.
Packing folding cartons of salt.
Heroin bottle and carton, early 20th century.