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FDA updates voluntary nutrition labeling

FDA is required to update its voluntary nutrition labeling regulations at least every four years. The agency recently proposed updating the list of the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish and their nutrition labeling values based on new data.

May 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

GMA nixes quantitative ingredient labeling

GMA tells FDA quantitative labeling is a bad idea for proposed change to Codex regs.

May 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Achievements

–ExxonMobil Chemical’s (Houston, TX) Packaging Program graduated its 8000th student from its University of Oriented Polypropylene, a flexible packaging and labeling education program hosted by the Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical.

May 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

May 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Online calculator conveys throughput gains

Web site uses mathematical algorithms to determine the most efficient place to install buffering conveyors.

May 31, 2002

Labeling

Barry-Wehmiller acquires Mateer Burt

Barry-Wehmiller gains filling and labeling manufacturing capabilities with Mateer Burt acquisition.

May 31, 2002

Labels

Jelly even safer to spread

To start off the year, Palmetto Canning Co., Palmetto, FL, relaunched its Palmalito brand of jams and jellies in a 16-oz glass jar with a 2-mil PVC heat-shrinked label that provides tamper evidence.

May 31, 2002

Flow wrapping

At interpack 2002

NEWS FROM INTERPACK 2002: Packworld.com looks at some of the show’s notable news and products.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

U of OPP graduates 8,000th student

Juan Carlos Molotia, from Barcel Mexico, S.A. de C.V., recently became the 8ꯠth student to graduate from the University of Oriented Polypropylene, a flexible packaging and labeling education program hosted by the Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

rBST labeling

A bill in the Rhode Island House requiring labeling of all containers in or from which milk containing the growth hormone rBST is sold or offered for sale drew a sharp letter of opposition from the Grocery Manufacturers of America.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Canada rejects country-of-origin labeling

In mid-March, Michael Kergin, the Canadian Ambassador to the United States, sent a letter to the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate and House agriculture committees expressing Canada’s opposition to country of origin labeling provisions contained in the U.

April 30, 2002