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Australia will be one of 18 countries participating in the Save Food Pavilion at Interpack in 2017.

The packaging fair, hosted by Messe Düsseldorf, will run the pavilion for members of the World Packaging Organization (WPO), including Australia and other countries such as Austria, Brazil, China, Croatia and the Czech Republic.

The Australasian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will join 17 other active members of the WPO in the pavilion, which is an initiative of Messe Düsseldorf and the Food and Agriculture Organization.

As a key part of the fair, it will provide a space for demonstrating ways packaging can prevent food waste.

There will also be a Save Food Packaging category added to the 2017 WorldStar Awards run by the WPO as part of Interpack.

This award will be designed to recognise packaging solutions that can help to reduce food loss and waste.

Those eligible will be companies offering sustainable concepts with the lowest use of resources possible.

“Saving food is a topic related to the whole supply chain,” Johannes Bergmair, WPO vice president of sustainability and food safety, said.

“There is technology that can help us with this including farm to fork transcontinental routings, transit refrigeration, storage conditions, shelf-life extension, and product handling.

“Packaging is just one of the ways we can work on saving food, and this will be the focus of WPO at the fair.”

Interpack will run from 4-10 May next year.

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