Food Tube Packaging: A B2B Guide to Liners, Seals, Compliance and Shelf Life (Video)

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  1. 0:00A food tube has four parts: a branded outer ply, structural plies, an inner liner, the only layer touching food, and two ends. Most failures start inside and surface weeks after launch.
  2. 0:14Each food has one or two main threats. Tea fears moisture and aroma loss, coffee oxygen and gas, spices moisture and light, chocolate grease, snacks moisture and crushing. Spend the barrier there.
  3. 0:28Work back from shelf life and worst-case storage. Turn 'keeps fresh' into moisture and oxygen targets, pick the lightest liner that meets them, and match the closure, where air usually gets in.
  4. 0:42Then prove it: a compliance declaration for every food-contact layer, migration tests matched to the food, and a real-food shelf-life test. Empty tubes can't show stains or caking.
  5. 0:55Send your product, target shelf life and markets.

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