Polystyrene Foam Trays Set the Standard for Food Safety and Quality Assurance
There was a time when proteins were packaged in cardboard paper-pulp cartons that were flimsy and leaked. Purge from proteins like steak, chicken and fish would drip from inside the packaging and create a trail from the grocery shelf all the way to the consumer’s kitchen.
“Remember the old pulp paper egg cartons? This material was used for all kinds of food, and the purge from the protein would be absorbed into the pulp paper. The container would get soft and just not hold up,” says Grant Moyer, a technical marketing manager with Novipax, Oak Brook, IL, a company that has produced polystyrene trays for use in food packaging for more than five decades. “There was a great need for something that could stand up to the moisture, particularly the purge from food like fresh red meat, poultry and pork.”