Food quality and safety are crucial. However, conventional food-monitoring methods, including ribotyping and polymerase chain reaction, tend to be destructive and lengthy. These shortcomings limit ...

Researchers developed a stretchable, antimicrobial food wrapper (NSSAW) that can monitor freshness in real time by detecting nutritional components, pesticides, and spoilage chemistry. The wrapper’s ...

FILE - A Burger King Whopper in a wrapper, left, rests next to a McDonald's Big Mac in a container, in Walpole, Mass., Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Food wrappers and packaging that contain “forever ...

A stretchable antimicrobial wrapper with a built-in SERS nanosensor tracks food freshness and nutrients on the surface while preserving quality and extending shelf life. (Nanowerk News) Ensuring food ...

Chrissy Teigen does it, so how bad can it be? (Don't worry, that question was rhetorical.) The "it" we're referring to is microwaving your refrigerated, hours-old McDonald's cheeseburger (which the ...

What's the first thing you should worry about when you look at the packaging on your fast food or takeout? No, it's not Covid-19 -- science assures us the risk of catching the novel coronavirus that ...

Fast-food wrappers and packaging that contain so-called forever chemicals are no longer being sold in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. It’s the result of a voluntary ...

Scientists have developed a packaging material that reads freshness in real time, giving a clearer picture of when food is starting to spoil. The wrapper’s tiny sensors track nutrients and ...