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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Cartoning
New filler, cartoner, help 'moo-ve' multipacks
Renovation reaps rewards for yogurt maker (sidebar)
October 31, 1999
Food: Page 334
Conveying & accumulation
Capsule Web site reviews
Designing & sharing packaging specs on-line (sidebar)
October 31, 1999
Cartoning
Renovation reaps rewards for yogurt maker
New cup filling, accumulating, coding, cartoning and case packing equipment help Stonyfield Farm double yogurt capacity at its Londonderry, NH, headquarters facility.
October 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Egg codes convey Rose Acre's quality commitment
By ink-jet coding directly onto eggs as well as on outer cartons, Rose Acre Farms believes it enjoys a competitive edge.
October 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Consumer education key to public embracing irradiation
Even without changes to labeling requirements, some consumers appear to understand the food safety benefits of irradiation, says a consumer researcher.
October 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
One label for surimi
After a year-long campaign by surimi makers, FDA will allow them to use a single label to describe the fish that may or may not be in surimi. Surimi (deboned fish washed with water) is often found in cold seafood salad and is used to make imitation crab, scallops and lobster.
October 31, 1999
Sustainable Packaging
Innovative paper packs recognized by 3M
Pizza Hut's "Better Box" carry-out package was the Pick of the Pack award winner in the 1999 3M Scotchban Innovation Awards program. Selected as the most innovative and environmentally responsible entry, the box is made of 150#-test B-flute corrugated.
October 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Irradiation petition
Twenty-eight food industry, academic and consumer groups signed onto a petition requesting that FDA approve the use of irradiation on a variety of ready-to-eat foods.
October 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
Paperboard rounds serve refrigerated pancakes
Spotted at WestPack in September was a colorful round paperboard container that holds six ready-to-eat pancakes introduced earlier this year by Spartan Foods of America, Spartanburg, SC.
October 31, 1999
Labels
Heinz ketchup labels cop an attitude
In the first major label change on Heinz ketchup bottles since the venerable product debuted in 1876, the words "Tomato Ketchup" will be replaced with comical messages directed at teens.
October 31, 1999
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Almost ready-to-eat
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service has decided to drop frozen entrees containing a combination of fully cooked meat and/or poultry products and uncooked nonmeat ingredients from its definition of "ready-to-eat" foods.
October 31, 1999
Sustainability
FDA pressed to 'repackage' 120-day approval program
Congress appears likely to provide at least part of the $6 million needed to get a new 120-day notification program off the ground by Oct. 1. But many manufacturers are concerned with how the FDA will administer the program.
September 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Stonyfield Farm stacks benefits
Maintenance mechanic designs and builds an automatic case stacking machine that reduces labor costs and helps ready the company for new palletizing equipment.
September 30, 1999
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