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New white paper from Mocon demonstrates it is now possible for the first time to determine actual shelf-life for oxygen sensitive products at time of production.
Download 2008 seminar schedule from MOCON on leak detection, cGMP permeation testing methods, measuring transmission rates of inert gases, basics of barriers, and much more. Past seminars can be downloaded.
The National Food Laboratory also tackles packaging research and development for CPG companies, suppliers, and entrepreneurs.
These are the first areas to consider to improve your operation's Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
New distribution packaging might be green, but that doesn’t mean it can do the job.
Package design center’s unique capabilities played a key role in helping Stern Pinball come up with a way to get their popular games to global markets damage-free.
Environmental, social, and economic concerns keep sustainability at the forefront of business operations.
Company transitions from cylindrical glass culture tubes for its collagen vascular grafts to a copolyester-based tube with a flat side, helping to prevent breakage and save money.
Chris Burger, coffee product manager of Fres-Co System USA, offers his take on using polylactic acid (PLA), a sustainable material derived from corn, in film structures for coffee bags.
It was only a couple of months ago that an obscure provision about
reporting dangerous food products, embedded in a big law that mostly
dealt with toughening drug regulation, was the biggest change in food
safety law in quite some time (see www.packworld.com/view-24168).
At its facility in Fort Madison, IA, The Scotts Company is producing
sleeved 4-packs and 2-packs of 16-oz plastic bottles of Miracle-Gro
LiquaFeed All Purpose Plant Food.
Below are the insights and comments of Kristina E. Paquette, PhD on FDA’s December 2007 revisions to its Chemistry Recommendations guidance document. Dr. Paquette had served as a chemist in FDA’s Office of Food Additive safety until mid-2007, and was personally involved in developing some of the revisions.

Unique compared to its competition, Harro Höfliger's Modu C capsule filler allows plug-and-play installation of ELAU servo-driven dosing units on wheels for various powders, liquids and solids in a matter of minutes.

An interview with Joe Faust, Electrical Engineering Manager, Douglas
Machine, on the company’s entry into the low volume case/tray packing
market.
The University of Florida's new Research Center for Food Distribution and Retailing now includes five radio-frequency identification portals.
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