The aims of this study are aligned with the EU's objectives of reducing the impacts of packaging waste, in line with its ambition to transition to a circular economy and with the objectives of the proposal for a new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) models,...

Innovation means change. In a case of food and agriculture, it can be the application of new proposals for raw material processing technology, packaging of products, new food additives, and new agricultural technologies. Innovation may lead to reducing or preventing adverse changes caused by...

Because packaging reaches consumers at the critical moments of purchase and consumption, it has become an important marketing tool for food manufacturers and retailers. In this paper, I first review how the marketing, health and nutrition claims made on packaging create “health halos” and...

Nanotechnology has an extremely high potential to benefit society through applications in food packaging. It can make the products cheaper and the production more efficient by producing less waste and using less energy. However, any new technology carries an ethical responsibility for wise...

Consumers often need to make very rapid choices among multiple brands (e.g., at a supermarket shelf) that differ both in their reward value (e.g., taste) and in their visual properties (e.g., color and brightness of the packaging). Since the visual properties of stimuli are known to influence...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental study which aims at assessing the potentially misleading effect of graphic elements on food packaging. The authors call these elements potentially misleading elements (PMEs) as they can give customers false expectations. They are...

Verbraucherleitbild und weitere rechtliche Grundlagen -- Konsumentenverhalten – insbesondere Informationsverarbeitung -- Preis-Packungsgrößen-Strategien von Anbietern -- Downsizing und dessen Kenngrößen -- Downsizing-Motive von Herstellern -- Downsizing-Auswirkungen für Konsumenten und...

We find that consumers prefer bonus pack, as opposed to price discount, for virtue foods but prefer price discount, as opposed to bonus pack, for vice foods. Past research has shown that cēterīs paribus consumers prefer bonus pack to price discount. We propose that this preference does not...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to fulfil gaps in knowledge regarding food packaging practices in Southeast Asia by examining the informational content of food labels on a variety of packaged foods. Design/methodology/approach – Using local and imported food products found in...

Purpose – Despite their responsibility for mitigating the influence of commercial culture on children, parents' views of fun food marketing aimed at children remain largely unexplored. This article aims to probe parents' views of supermarket fun foods and the packaging used to promote them to...

Purpose – During a short two‐decade period (1879‐1903) processes for making food packages – paperboard cartons, tinplate cans and glass bottles – were mechanized by American inventor/entrepreneurs Robert Gair, Edwin Norton and Michael Owens, respectively. This paper aims to describe...