Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling regulations: A bug's life?

“Stop bugging me: Consumers unwittingly eating insects.”

May 31, 2006

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Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Dependable Manual Water-Activated Tape Dispenser

Better Pack® 333 Plus and 333 StainlessWith over a million sold, the world’s #1 selling manual dispenser offers durable steel frame construction, superior mechanics and simple operation-perfect in shipping areas with no electricity handling light to medium volumes.

May 31, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Combination products challenge packaging

Manufacturers must consider regulatory matters, materials, machinery, and sterilization methods when packaging these cutting-edge drug-device, drug-biologic, and/or device-biologic products.

May 31, 2006

Beverage

'Yesterday once more' design bumps sales 7%

4C Foods Corp., Brooklyn, NY, boosted sales 7% for its 4C brand of seasoned salt-free breadcrumbs by refreshing the canister graphics to help reintroduce the long-time product’s benefits to diet-conscious consumers.

May 31, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Getting schooled in RFID

It had been a while, but I went back to school earlier this year, attending Miles Technologies’ (www.rfidlabeling.com) RFID Essentials class at the company’s local Chicago-area facility in Itasca, IL.

May 31, 2006

Flexibles

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.

May 31, 2006

Recycling

Universal Design, Part II

A toolbox for testing human utility in packaging...

April 30, 2006

Recycling

machinery/inspection

UNIVERSAL DESIGN, PART IIA toolbox for testing human utility in packagingBy Javier de la Fuente, Audrey Whaling, and Laura BixA demographic tidal wave is set to befall consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) and package designers.

April 30, 2006

Dairy

Gateway to Mexico and Central America

Some 30ꯠ visitors are expected to descend upon Mexico City’s Centro Banamex for the June 27-June 30 Expo Pack Mexico.

April 30, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

MAP packaging hits turbulence

Petition raises questions of safety and approval of new, low-oxygen varieties of case-ready meat packs.

April 30, 2006

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Post-pasteurization bags

Flavorseal™ Post Pasteurization Shrink Bags from Carroll Mfg. & Sales provide a skintight package that withstands the rigors and extreme temperatures of the pasteurization process to help kill surface bacteria.

April 30, 2006

Flexibles

Gourmet seafoods launch in microwave trays

Raw Seafoods, Inc., New Bedford, MA, has introduced a line of gourmet-quality frozen seafood entrées in 400-g (single-serve) and 900-g (double-serve) microwaveable “MicroRite” trays supplied by Graphic Packaging International (www.graphicpkg.com).

April 30, 2006

Dairy

More on the use of CO

Those suggesting that the use of carbon monoxide in fresh meat packaging is unsafe or inappropriate have been answered by a number of industry observers.

April 30, 2006