Life-Saving Packaging

Food CPCs are taking a serious look at smart packaging, exploring inventive ways to protect their products and consumers.

FOOD-BORNE ILLNESSES cause more than upset stomachs. According to the Center for Disease Control, food poisoning results in more than 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,200 deaths in the United States each year. Worldwide, the World Health Organization reports that 3.2 million children under the age of five die of food-poisoning-related illnesses annually.