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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Controls & Machine Components
Evergreen Packaging: Fillers for milk or juice
Two new fillers from Evergreen (Cedar Rapids, IA) package fresh refrigerated milk or juice at speeds to 3ꯠ gabletop cartons/hr. The GTL-1000 (shown) fills 250- to 1걶-mL (8.45- to 38.9-oz) cartons, while the GTN-1000 fills 125- to 500-mL (4.23- to 16.9-oz) cartons.
January 31, 2000
Food: Page 331
Coding, Printing & Labeling
USDA says OK to irradiation
In late December 1999, USDA issued its long-awaited rule permitting the irradiation of frozen or refrigerated raw meat and meat products to kill harmful microorganisms.
January 31, 2000
Flexibles
Smarties gets better wrap
Smarties®, the venerable pill-shaped candy from Ce De Candy, marked its 50th anniversary by switching back to cellophane wrapping in early 1999.
January 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA fires starter's gun on 'fast track' (sidebar)
Label ‘libel’ for biotech foods?
January 31, 2000
Additives, coatings & inks
FDA fires starter's gun on 'fast track'
Agency offers details of new 120-day approval program usable for most—but not all—food-contact substrate materials.
January 31, 2000
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Packaging for kids at Kellogg and Dannon
When these two food processing powerhouses used existing brands as launch pads for kid-oriented new products, they were highly selective about their choice of containers.
January 31, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Retorted food pouches ready for market push
Knauss and Esskay introduce foods in retorted pouches without foil for retail. StarKist Seafood sells a foil-based pouch of tuna to foodservice accounts. Will others follow suit?
January 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Contract packager blends vf/f/s systems
Unusual integrated blending scale systems enable a California contract packager to fill as many as nine different individually quick-frozen vegetables into a single bag.
January 31, 2000
Sustainability
Mystery of the missing PMNs
The FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are both scratching their figurative heads over packaging suppliers’ apparent hesitancy to use the agency’s new 120-day packaging approval program.
December 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Thermo Solutions: Vacuum-insulated containers
Thermo Solutions™ (Minneapolis, MN) has introduced square vacuum-insulated panel (VIP) containers. The EverKool Express™ and the EverKool™ VIP allow frozen food to retain a sub-zero temperature for 36 hr at a consistent 85°F ambient room temperature.
December 31, 1999
Labeling
Food pasteurization facility planned for late 2000
SteriGenics Intl. (Memphis, TN) expects a new “state-of-the-art” X-ray food pasteurization plant to be operational in Bridgeport, NJ, by the fourth quarter of this year.
December 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Communicating: Still a challenge in 21st-century technologies
We may have successfully overcome some of the minor inconveniences caused by the calendar rollover into 2000, but many of us still struggle with the many ways technology lets us communicate with each other.
December 31, 1999
Dairy
Pushing meals to market
Breakaway Foods™ is touting its new line of paperboard cylinder-packed IncrEdibles™ portable meals as “a revolutionary new way for consumers to enjoy their favorite foods, and the ultimate meal for people on the go.” IncrEdibles are microwaveable meals packaged in a printed, spiral-wound paperboard cylinder that becomes a “self-server,” according to the company, when consumers push up a plastic stick that’s inserted into the cylinder’s bottom.
December 31, 1999
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