Packaura
/ October 18, 2026
If you sell, distribute, or manufacture food packaging in the U.S., “check your state’s PFAS law” isn’t optional anymore — more than a dozen states now restrict intentionally added PFAS in food packaging, and the list keeps growing every legislative session. This guide walks through
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Packaura
/ October 16, 2026
A supplier telling you their packaging is “PFAS-free” is a marketing statement, not proof. With a growing list of states banning intentionally added PFAS in food packaging and the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation setting hard concentration limits starting August 2026, a verbal or
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Packaura
/ October 16, 2026
If your product has to survive a conveyor belt, a delivery van, and a doorstep drop before it ever reaches a customer, the box you choose isn’t just a branding decision — it’s a compliance decision. Retailers, 3PLs, and carriers increasingly require packaging to pass
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Packaura
/ October 15, 2026
Packaging that says “eco-friendly,” “biodegradable,” or “compostable” sounds reassuring, but these words are not interchangeable and they are not just marketing flavor — each one carries a specific legal meaning under FTC rules and, for compostable claims, specific ASTM test standards behind it. This guide
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Packaura
/ October 10, 2026
The little triangle stamped on a plastic container tells you what resin it’s made from — but it does not, by itself, tell you whether that container is legal to put food in. That distinction trips up a lot of packaging and compliance teams, especially
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Packaura
/ October 8, 2026
The UK’s packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) scheme makes businesses that put packaging on the UK market pay for its collection, recycling and disposal. For US brands shipping to the UK, the hard part is working out whether the rules land on you, on your
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Packaura
/ October 7, 2026
If your corrugated box touches produce, meat, seafood, or baked goods, the coating on that board isn’t a cosmetic choice — it’s a compliance one. Moisture barriers need to meet FDA food-contact rules, and increasingly they also need to survive a recycling mill without gumming
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Packaura
/ October 5, 2026
If you sell packaged goods into New York and you’ve been bracing for a new extended producer responsibility (EPR) law, you can exhale for now — but not for long. The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act passed the state Senate in 2024 and again
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Packaura
/ October 5, 2026
If you sell products in paperboard boxes, corrugated shippers, or paper bags, sooner or later a retailer, customer, or your own sustainability team will ask whether your packaging is FSC or PEFC certified. The two schemes look similar on a box, but they are set
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Packaura
/ October 4, 2026
If you ship or package products in thin plastic bags, you’ve probably seen the familiar warning: “Keep this bag away from babies and children.” What’s less obvious is that this isn’t just a courtesy line — in several states it’s a legal requirement with specific
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Packaura
/ September 26, 2026
California’s SB 54 (the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act) measures producers’ source-reduction progress against a 2023 baseline: how much plastic covered material was sold, offered for sale, or distributed into California during calendar year 2023. Under 14 CCR § 18980.9, that baseline
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Packaura
/ September 24, 2026
If your products ship into more than one state, packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) rules have probably already landed on your desk, usually as a confusing email from a producer responsibility organization asking you to register and report tonnage you’ve never had to track before.
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Packaura
/ September 24, 2026
If you’re finalizing artwork for a cream, lotion, or makeup product, you’ve probably run into the little open-jar icon with a number and an “M” next to it — the Period-After-Opening (PAO) symbol. Getting this right matters: in the EU, it’s a legal labeling requirement
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Packaura
/ September 24, 2026
If your packaged product travels by truck, rail or air, it will be shaken, bounced and jostled the whole way. ASTM D999 is one of the standard ways to reproduce that punishment in a lab, so you can find weak spots before customers, retailers or
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Packaura
/ September 23, 2026
If you’re bringing a new packaging material, coating, or food-contact product to market, migration testing is one of the line items that’s hardest to budget for — labs rarely post pricing, and the final number depends on a handful of variables most first-time filers don’t
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Packaura
/ September 22, 2026
If you make or source food packaging, you’ve probably run into the acronym GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe — and wondered whether the resin, adhesive, coating, or additive in your material actually qualifies. It’s a fair question: GRAS status isn’t a single certificate you
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Packaura
/ September 19, 2026
If your company sells products in a state with an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging, one of the first hard parts isn’t understanding the regulation, it’s producing accurate weight and material data for everything you ship. Regulators and the producer responsibility organizations (PROs)
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Packaura
/ September 17, 2026
Pull up almost any silicone baking mat or muffin mold online and you’ll see the words “FDA approved” somewhere in the listing. It sounds like a stamp of government approval, but the FDA doesn’t test, inspect, or approve individual kitchenware products before they hit the
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Packaura
/ September 15, 2026
If you sell, distribute, or manufacture checkout bags across state lines, “just make it thicker” is not a compliance strategy. States that ban thin single-use plastic bags define “reusable” in wildly different ways — some by a specific mil count, some by banning plastic film
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Packaura
/ September 15, 2026
Plain, uncoated cardboard is actually FDA-compliant for direct contact with dry foods, as long as the fiber and any additives meet federal requirements — a coating isn’t automatically required just to call cardboard “food-safe.” Where a coating or barrier treatment becomes necessary is grease, oil,
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