Station 18: Sector guide: food and beverage
Food-contact rules, PFAS, deposit return and reuse where packaging meets food and drink.
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Sector: food and beverage Beverages: The Sector Where Deposit, Content and Grade Collide No category runs more PPWR programmes at once: drinks carry deposit return, the bottle content targets, grade pressure on labels and sleeves, and refill traditions. The beverage desk's consolidated view. Sector: food and beverage Food Waste Versus Packaging: The Evidence and How to Use It The sector's central argument, stated carefully: where packaging demonstrably prevents more waste than it creates, where it does not, and how a business builds the dataset that tells its own products apart. Sector: food and beverage Fresh and Chilled: Shelf Life Is a Packaging Specification Meat, dairy, ready meals, produce: the categories where packaging is a food-preservation technology. Running minimisation, grades and materials change on trial data - and the MAP, skin and vacuum formats' files. Sector: food and beverage Glass and Metal: The Traditional Materials' New Arithmetic No content mandate, strong recycling traditions, deposit and reuse entanglements, and the weight question in transport: glass and metal food packaging under the framework, honestly compared. Sector: food and beverage PFAS in Food Packaging: Greaseproof Paper, Moulded Fibre and the Thresholds at Work Food-contact packaging is where the Article 5 PFAS thresholds bite first: greaseproof treatments, moulded fibre serviceware, baking papers. Detection, substitution and the supplier conversation, at sector level. Sector: food and beverage Retailer Private Label: Where Food Packaging Decisions Are Actually Made Own-brand ranges are the food sector's largest packaging portfolio, and retailers run them as programmes: specification systems, supplier scorecards, packaging taxes passed down the chain. A supplier's guide to the programme - and a retailer's to running it well. Sector: food and beverage Sensitive Applications: Infant Formula, Clinical Nutrition and the Strict End of Contact Where the consumer is an infant or a patient, packaging conservatism is clinical, not commercial: the contact-sensitive logic at its strictest, and how the framework's targets and grades treat the packs that may not experiment. Sector: food and beverage Takeaway and Delivery: The Counter, the App and the Doorstep Takeaway food sits at the crossing of the HORECA listings, the reuse offers and delivery-platform logistics. The format decisions, the aggregator's packaging layer, and the customer's bin at the end of the ride. Sector: food and beverage The Food Sector's PPWR Calendar: One Programme From 2026 to 2030 The sector's dates assembled: PFAS thresholds and general application, labelling phases, deposit launches per market, content and grade deadlines - sequenced into the food business's own planning cycle of range reviews and capex. Sector: food and beverage Where the PPWR Meets Food-Contact Law: Running One File for Two Regimes Migration limits and authorised substances on one side; grades, content and minimisation on the other. How the FCM file and the PPWR file combine - and the recycled-plastic authorisation that joins them. Sector: food and beverage Wine, Spirits and Beer: Tradition Meets the Framework Alcohol sits partly outside the deposit mandate and deep inside everything else: grades for glass, reuse traditions in beer, lightweighting in wine, premium presentation under minimisation. The sector's most traditional packs, examined.