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DEFINITION OF PACKAGING<br />Packagingis the science, art, and technology of

enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also
refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Packaging can be
described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics,
sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In
many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and
personal use.<br />
2. 3. BRIEF HISTORY OF PACKAGING<br />Paper may be the oldest form of what today is
referred to as "flexible packaging.” In early days there is less need for packaging, either for
transportation or storage. Before the creation of pure packaging materials people use many
of the natural things to make a basket for packaging to protect products from contamination,
from environmental damage, from theft or from any other damage. They used woven
grasses, animal organs or this type of things for that. But these days we are using paper
products, glass products, metal products and Plastic products for packaging.<br /> One
rather recent development in packaging is the labeling of the product with the company
name and contents information. Official trademarks were pioneered in 1866 by Smith
Brothers for their cough drops marketed in large glass jars. This was a new idea _ using the
package to "brand" a product for the benefit of the consumer. In 1870, the first registered
U.S. trademark was awarded to the Eagle_Arwill Chemical Paint Company