Coding, Printing & Labeling

"Go deeper" on RFID

“Get your toe in the water, get used to it, and then go deeper.” Those words of advice about radio-frequency identification are from J. Michael Wallace, director, process and package development, Ross Products Div. of Abbott Laboratories, makers of nutritional products including Ensure and Similac.

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Flexibles

NatureWorks wins food-contact approval in Japan

NatureWorks™ PLA, a plastic resin made from corn, has won approval for use in food-contact applications from the Japanese Hygienic Olefin & Styrene Plastics Assn., that country’s equivalent to the Food & Drug Administration in the United States.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label it 'user-friendly'

Converter and contract labeler U.S. Tape & Label Co., St. Louis, MO, uses a versatile, quick-change labeler for a range of containers from 1 oz to several gallons in size.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging Services Expo gains CMPA approval

UPDATE: The Packaging Services Expo recently accepted support by The Contract Manufacturing Packaging Association, a national, not-for-profit trade association for companies that offer contract manufacturing, packaging, and related business services.

June 30, 2004

Labeling

Campbell Soup selects vision system for soup cans

Campbell Soup Co., Newark, NJ, has announced that it selected the MVS-8500 vision system from Cognex Corp. to ensure proper labeling of all of its canned soups.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ban trans fat?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has petitioned FDA to prohibit the use of partially hydrogenated oil, commonly referred to as trans fat, as a food ingredient.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Net carb labeling

The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is working on draft guidance for labeling of net carbohydrates. The draft will be based on its report on obesity, which had a central thesis that “calories count.”In response to the report, the Grocery Manufacturers of America’s president and CEO C.

June 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor

A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x8-1/2’ container is quenching the troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID enabled label printers

Tharo Systems offers the Easylabel® labeling software equipped with an RFID Wizard. Printers currently supported include the RFID-enabled Zebra and Printronix thermal-transfer label printers.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The guru's 20 tips for labeling on plastic

President Ted Williams of SpectraGraphics, Lenexa, KS, shares 25 years of experience via 20 little-known tips for successful labeling on plastic materials.

June 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

UF juiced for R&D

The University of Florida’s packaging department kicks off with a full slate of applied research projects including these for food and RFID.

June 30, 2004

Labels

UF juiced for R&D (sidebar)

UF’s RFID portals proliferateSee video

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