Package testing or packaging testing involves the measurement of a characteristic or property involved with packaging. This includes packaging materials, packaging components, primary packages, shipping containers, and unit loads, as well as the associated processes.
Military shipping container being drop tested
Testing the ability of packages to resist insect infestation
Materials and components are often evaluated on a universal testing machine.
Heat sealer used to prepare bag of lettuce for shelf life testing
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.
