Packaura
/ October 19, 2026
If you ship products to Canadian customers — even just through a fulfillment partner or a Shopify storefront — you may already be an “obligated producer” under one or more provincial packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs, whether or not you have a Canadian entity.
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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
/ 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 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 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 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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Packaura
/ September 14, 2026
If you’ve ever had a container arrive with crushed cartons, mislabeled boxes, or product that doesn’t match the sample you approved, you already know why brands pay someone else to check the goods before they ship. A third-party packaging inspection puts an independent inspector in
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Packaura
/ September 10, 2026
If your brand sells packaged goods into California, Oregon, Colorado, or Maine, you may be swept into that state’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging law even if you’re a small operation. The good news: all four programs carve out a “small producer” or de minimis
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Packaura
/ August 26, 2026
If your packaging is labeled compostable in the U.S., regulators, retailers, and buyers increasingly expect proof, not just a marketing claim. ASTM D6400 is the technical standard behind that proof, and third-party certification, most commonly through the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), is how you demonstrate
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Packaura
/ August 25, 2026
If you sell essential oils, the biggest legal risk usually isn’t your ingredient list — it’s your marketing copy. The FDA doesn’t regulate essential oils as a category; it regulates them based on what your label, website, and sales reps say they do. Cross the
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Packaura
/ August 24, 2026
If a buyer at Walmart, Costco, Target, or a regional grocery chain has ever told you your packaging needs to be “retail-ready,” you’ve probably found the term easy to hear and hard to pin down. It’s not a single spec sheet — it’s a set
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Packaura
/ August 23, 2026
“Compostable” is one of the most abused words on a package, and it’s also one of the most legally risky ones to get wrong. Several states now require third-party certification before you can even print the word on a box, and buyers are getting sharper
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Packaura
/ August 22, 2026
Maine made history in 2021 as the first U.S. state to pass an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging, shifting the cost of recycling packaging waste from municipalities onto the companies that put that packaging into the market. If you sell packaged goods into
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Packaura
/ August 21, 2026
If you’ve seen “GS1 Sunrise 2027” mentioned by a retailer partner or packaging vendor and aren’t sure what it actually requires you to do, you’re not alone. It sounds like a hard deadline, but it’s really a market-readiness target: by the end of 2027, GS1
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Packaura
/ August 16, 2026
Maine made history in 2021 as the first U.S. state to pass an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging. But headlines about Oregon’s and Colorado’s programs going live have left a lot of brands assuming Maine’s is right behind them — it isn’t. Implementation
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Packaura
/ August 15, 2026
A box that looks sturdy on a shelf can still fail on its way to a customer’s door — crushed in a stack, punctured on a conveyor belt, or rattled loose by a delivery van driving over potholes. ASTM D4169 is the standard packaging engineers
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Packaura
/ August 14, 2026
Washington became the seventh U.S. state to pass a packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) law when Governor Bob Ferguson signed SB 5284, the Recycling Reform Act, on May 17, 2025. If your brand sells packaged consumer products into Washington, the law creates a new set
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