Pfizer has promised to switch from wooden pallets to molded plastic ones to solve the contamination problem, setting up a potentially interesting global paradigm shift in the shipping world.

But in the last few months, pallet industry leaders have been caught up in brewing war over consumer safety that could easily rival the plastic versus wood cutting board battle of the 1990s.

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Philippines – The country’s wooden pallet industry is booming. A pallet is a platform device that holds one or more cargo packages in a group. It allows a load to be ...