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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Confection/Candy
Kissing an old design goodbye
With a focus on strategically managing the equity that has been established within its Kisses brand chocolates, Hersheyâs partnered with LPK to reinvigorate the brandâs packaging.
September 30, 2003
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Flexibles
Pita-perfect design
To help develop brand identity and packaging graphics for its new Pita Snax Brand Pita Chips, Pita Products of Farmington, MI, looked to Flowdesign, Inc.
September 30, 2003
Prepared Foods
Web Plus: Reverse auctions: Love 'em or hate 'em
Reverse-auction buying of packaging seems to have a toe-hold among manufacturers. It may even be on the verge of becoming a trend, according to a Web-based survey conducted on Packworld.com earlier this summer.
September 30, 2003
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Warnings dropped for olestra
The Food and Drug Administration announced that, effective immediately, packages of products containing olestra, a fat substitute developed by Procter & Gamble, need no longer bear a required label statement indicating that olestra may cause some gastrointestinal difficulties, that it inhibits the bodyâs absorption of vitamins A, D, E, K, and other nutrients, and that these vitamins have been added to compensate for olestraâs effects on these nutrients.
September 30, 2003
Bakery/Snack
New "smart" label
Frito-Lay introduced a new âsmart snackâ icon on packages of some of its foods. The yellow, green, and pink icon says âGreat Taste, Smart Snackâ with information on fats and cholesterol in the product.
September 30, 2003
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Bumble Bee gets test nod
FDA is allowing Bumble Bee Seafoods to test market a product called âBumble Bee Chunk Light Tuna âTouch of Lemonâ in water, with natural lemon flavorâ that deviates from the standard of identify for canned tuna.
September 30, 2003
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
No more meat pizza standard
The U.S. Department of Agricultureâs Food Safety and Inspection Service has eliminated the standards of identity for âpizza with meatâ and âpizza with sausage,â effective October 22, 2003.
September 30, 2003
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Blood container labeling
FDA proposed to revise its rule on the labeling and storage requirements for blood and blood components to make it easier for the blood industry to comply with regulations, reduce the costs of compliance, and manage the supply of plasma to enhance the safety of the blood supply.
September 30, 2003
Sustainable Packaging
Repeal of foam packaging ban sought
Shawâs Supermarkets is asking the town of Freeport, ME, to change its 14-year-old ban on plastic foam packaging in retail stores. Shawâs is opening a supermarket in an area covered by the ban and said the ban hampers the chainâs ability to provide safe meat.
September 30, 2003
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Pipeline: The elusive 'nickel' tag
Hot on the heels of a tech-stock surge, media outlets of all stripes have carried stories about the âpossibilitiesâ for radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags or labels.
September 30, 2003
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
'Catch and release' packaging
Seafood processor Plitt shifts from waxed corrugated to returnable crates to save money, time, and damage.
September 30, 2003
Dairy
Reaching Peak efficiency
First-in, first-out accumulation gives Peak Foods the time it needs to weather temporary packaging disruptions. TE shrink banders dramatically lower rejects to less than 1%.See in-plant video
September 30, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
HMI paints a powerful picture
Raque Foodsâ new HMI provides a âwide open canvasâ for an innovative robotic tray filler.
September 30, 2003
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