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Packaging's role in ensuring food safety and security

Judges of the 25th DuPont Awards share their insights on how packaging can play a more crucial role in ensuring the safety and security of our global food resources.

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Efforts to feed a growing population involve every aspect of the “farm-to-fork” value chain. DuPont, which believes collaboration stimulates insights and action, asked packaging thought leaders to discuss how packaging can play a more critical role in ensuring food safety and security. Their comments were made after judging of the 25th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation.

Tony Burns, associate director, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH USA:
“We need to look holistically at the entire system and integrate with the end product in mind instead of looking at just the product; just the material. It’s very easy to bucket things into our areas of expertise. We’re selling brand experience, so we need to look at the whole system. We need to look at system and total system benefit.”

Jason Wadsworth, sustainability manager, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., USA:
“Solutions start with asking the right questions. What is the ‘need’ to be solved? What is the right packaging to solve that need? Food waste is a huge problem. We need to help customers understand this, and packaging can help support change in consumer behavior by offering portion control and  longer shelf life. Most of all, we need to remember packaging’s primary purpose—to protect and preserve.”

Sudhakar Gupta, director, international business development, IFFCO Group of Companies at International Food Stuffs Company, UAE:
“There are a number of ways packaging can play a greater role in food safety and security. We need to find a way to package products for a longer shelf life and to protect products from distribution through consumption. To contribute efficiently with the environment, we need a cradle-to-cradle approach. We need to design from beginning to end. That will help achieve natural sustainability.”

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