Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA proposes labeling for nonpasteurized juices (sidebar)

FDA unfreezes 'healthy' label

August 31, 1998

Prepared Foods: Page 71

Secondary Packaging

A short course on plastics technology

A new book promises to explain plastics packaging technology to scientists, engineers, even college graduates who begin new jobs and need a quick tutorial.

August 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Longer life for life-saving blood product

SiOX-coated film delivers the barrier properties required for this human blood substitute product. Film clarity lets clinicians perform important visual inspection.

August 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Packaging positions ice cream for upscale sales

Farm Fresh's new all-plastic, rectangular ice cream package features full-coverage, in-mold-labeled graphics, believed to be one of the first applications of its kind in the U.S.

August 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

PET spreads to mayonnaise

Manufacturers looking to stand out from the competition introduce mayonnaise in 32-oz PET bottles. They cite reduced breakage and lower freight costs as plastic's advantages, while cost and shelf life are competitive with glass.

August 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Produce, meat labeling

The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) scored a major victory when an amendment requiring front panel country-of-origin labeling on frozen produce was dropped before being included in the Senate's FY '99 Agriculture Appropriations bill.

August 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Tiger thermoforms paper/plastic structure for cheese

Swiss company is believed first to use cellulose in a thermoform/fill/seal package for shelf-stable packs of cheese. The 20-g packs of cheese were introduced in the U.S. in June.

July 31, 1998

Flexibles

Frozen fish package is bait for consumers

Newport, KY-based StarKist Seafood, internationally known for its canned tuna, is entering a whole new category with its Seaside Gourmet(TM) premium-cut, frozen fish fillets.

July 31, 1998

Flexibles

Harry's launches branded-no-brands

Store-branded items in the supermarket continue to grab bigger and bigger chunks of market share once belonging to branded items. Harry's Fresh Foods of Portland, OR, has come up with a way of capitalizing on this ongoing trend.

July 31, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Bag-in-box success is sweet

Chocolate syrup manufacturer Mont Blanc Chocolatier adapts bag-in-box technology for use in coffeehouses and restaurants. Extended shelf life and shelf stability are said to be industry firsts.

June 30, 1998

Flexible packaging

Apple and tortilla packs break the foodservice routine

Fresh, sliced apples for school foodservice customers and tortillas for hotel and restaurant kitchens both come in packages that look like they were lifted from a retail setting.

June 30, 1998

Bakery/Snack

Brands 'Sing' with consistency

Tying in with recent graphic updates of Michelina's® and new Michelina's Lean 'n Tasty(TM) brands, redesigned packaging for Michelina's Yu Sing® entrees and egg rolls began reaching store freezers this April.

June 30, 1998

Flexibles

Fresh French soup takes shrink-film label

Boldly decorated and full bodied, shrink-film labels have captured beverage marketers in a big way. Now Soup Ideale, a soup manufacturer in Saint Laurent, Blangy, France, is using a shrink-film label for 1-L bottles of fresh, refrigerated soup in high-density polyethylene bottles.

June 30, 1998