40 % food products get damaged due to poor packaging

COIMBATORE: About 35-40 per cent of food products are being damaged or lost due to poor packaging in India, a top official of the Indian Institute of Packaging said today.  Either flavour of products was getting less or the food was getting stale due to improper packaging, particularly processed food made by cottage industries, which use candle and sealing machine to pack the covers, Madhav Chakraborthy, Joint Director, IIP, Hyderabad told reporters here.  Moreover, there was some stipulated norms in packaging food products, depending on its shelf life and also marketing, whether domestic or export, which a large section of the producers were not adhering to, he said.