Shoppers have no trouble finding reclosable packaging for products such as lunch meat, frozen fish fillets, shellfish or poultry pieces and prepared foods such as meatballs or rotisserie chicken. Reclosable packaging simplifies storage and preparation and eliminates the need to transfer multi-serving products into another container. Many designs also add tamper evidence and enhance sustainability profiles. The array of reclosable packaging choices expands on almost every shopping trip.
One new design differentiates the Simply Delicious brand of lunch meat from Land O’Frost, in Munster, Ind. The FreshSeal Attached Lid package peels open with a corner pull tab and recloses by pressing the lid back into place. The tamper-evident design eliminates the need for the primary pouch package commonly found in reclosable tubs for lunch meat. Eliminating the pouch not only represents a source reduction, but also provides better access to the product. A hinge on one side keeps the base and lid together and “prevents the lid from falling off, getting lost or landing on the floor and getting dirty,” David Van Eekeren, president and CEO of Land O’Frost, told The National Provisioner in an interview published in the August 2015 issue.