Food Packaging and Ink

Food packaging has gotten to be a lot less fun in the last three to four years. After a couple of instances in Europe where local, sub-optimal ink formulations were used and ink components were found to have migrated into food consumed by children, an intense focus in Europe and North America was applied to all aspects of food packaging. There are some, including myself, who contend that these particular problems were 100% avoidable, but now that the “industry” had proven that it can contaminate...