Question from PLF
We are a tiny manufacture (>50K) of a liquid organic product. Some of our product was stored in high-density polyethylene food grade containers, while another batch was stored in low-density polyethylene, food grade containers.
All the product in in HDP containers was ruined. The product in the LDP is fine. Everything was handled the same way. In as much as we lost 90% of our harvest and value added product, we plan to switch to glass containers. However, I am curious about why this happened and if others have knowledge about food grade plastic containers and leaching. Thank you for any links or ideas.
Debra’s Answer
It was my understanding that food grade plastics don’t leach, but recently there was an article about polypropylene food containers leaching, so we may not know everything we need to know about this.
Readers, do you have any info on this?
Can you tell me more about how your product was ruined by this plastic?
