2021 Member Conference a Success
06/23/2021
With travel restrictions still in place, IAPRI held its Member Conference virtually. Thanks to the 45 researchers who presented their work, IAPRI held a three day, three track Zoom Webinar with just over 100 attendees. The sessions were recorded and are available to participants to view the ones they missed. We will feature some of the papers in our Conference Spotlight over the next few issues.

Alternative routes to paper, research and intelligent packaging
06/28/2021
In the first of three selections from the busy June Conference program, we zoom in on wood-free paper alternatives, RFID options for board packaging and new methods for researching household food waste during lockdown

IAPRI in the 1970s and ‘80s
06/29/2021
In the second of our articles celebrating IAPRI’s 50th anniversary and summarizing the association’s history, we jump back to its origins as an organization with a compact, largely European membership

Nofima analyses fresh chicken spoilage
06/29/2021
Huge efforts are currently being made to fine viable monomaterial, recyclable plastics packs to replace less easily-recycled combinations of polymers but, as Nofima, Norway, is demonstrating, measuring the shelf-life of perishable fresh products in these materials is of vital importance

White House connection for Clemson
06/23/2021
Charles Santerre, a former White House senior policy advisor, has been appointed chair of the Food, Nutrition and Packaging Sciences (FNPS) Department at Clemson University in the US.