Food Safety Focus | No Waste is a Tasty Idea!

Food Safety Focus

Hello All!

I hope this message finds all of you and your families safe and happy.

I wanted to share an interesting story about an innovative idea in reducing product-packaging waste: edible packaging! To replace or at least reduce our dependency on plastic and wax coatings, there have been some very interesting breakthroughs in not only developing 100% natural and edible coatings for fruits and vegetables to extend shelf life and improve quality; but also in developing packaging that is 100% natural and edible! Imagine no waste from product packaging…

Examples of this patent pending idea are a tomato-based packaging for rice and pasta that dissolves in boiling water and even a chocolate based packaging for cereals that dissolves in hot milk. Even this small switch from one-use plastics to an edible and sustainable source of packaging would help to eliminate a huge amount of landfill waste. I’ve provided a link here for you to read more about this cool way of looking at product packaging:

http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/pKjWCDmYbdDupLwxCieSlmBWcNrGrR?format=multipart

Thank you for all you do each and every Day to ensure safe food for our families!

Justin Straka
Food Safety Manager

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Author: Trish Metts