Food Packaging

Gordon says that, until quite recently, most food packaging consisted of a brown 1 Plastic packaging is supposed to keep food 2 and so make it better. Maggie Forbes is in charge of packaging and 3 for a chain of supermarkets. She says that 30-50% of food is wasted in countries without modern packaging and 4 systems. In contrast, Maggie says, people in Europe throw away no more than 5 of food nowadays. Maggie claims plastic packaging saves money, but Gordon suggests that it is a 6 Maggie says food stored in the 7 should be wrapped in plastic to prevent loss of water content. She points out that glass and stone containers are easily broken and very 8 She says that plastic packaging prevents food smelling and 9 bacteria which cause food poisoning. Gordon is worried that plastic bags have a very bad effect on the 10