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Chicken multipacks take wing at FMI

As seen at the Food Marketing Institute 2006 show, a line of multipacked, individually wrapped chicken breasts from Coleman Natural Foods, Golden, CO, is taking flight nationally starting this month, following test marketing in the northeast.

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The random weight, resealable bags contain six 4- to 6-oz trimmed, individually vacuum-packed portions, each with a coded use- or freeze-by date. Shelf life is 14 to 17 days. The 2-mil polyethylene preformed outer bags are extruded and converted with resealable zipper by Star Packaging (www.starpackagingcorp.com), which supplies the bags wicketed. Pressure-sensitive 60# paper labels are printed flexo in six colors by Mid Atlantic Label (www.midatlanticlabel.com).

The packaging is done at Coleman’s Mount Joy, PA, plant, where the inner packs are filled and vacuum sealed at a rate to 30 packs/min on f/f/s machinery from Spain’s Ulma Packaging (www.ulmapackaging.com), according to Coleman’s vice president of sales Tom O’Connor.

The line is expanding from a plain chicken version that has been available regionally since 2005 to include four marinated products such as lime salsa. Products sell for between $5.49 and $5.99 per lb.

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