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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Food
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
More on irradiation
In comments to USDA on its proposed new regulations allowing the use of irradiation on meat and poultry products, FMI strongly supported irradiation and said informed consumer choice is essential to its success.
May 31, 1999
Food: Page 342
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Thanks, Ben
For the first time since Packaging World began publishing in January, '94, this space is not filled by packaging news and opinions of Ben Miyares.
May 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Congress hears an earful about country-of-origin labeling
Testifying before a House Agriculture Subcommittee, representatives of food trade associations gave a resounding "no" to country-of-origin labeling legislation that requires disclosure of the origins of specific ingredients as well as the product itself.
May 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Controls system simplifies automatic case sortation
In the central packaging area of the two-year-old snack plant built by Pretzels, Inc. in Bluffton, In, corrugated cases of bagged snacks are conveyed from packaging to palletizing on a single powered roller conveyor.
May 31, 1999
Secondary Packaging
Hormel expanding MAP-packed pork
Hormel Foods, Austin, MN, believes it now has a long-shelf-life package system that delivers prepackaged pork cuts through a supermarket chain's warehouse.
May 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
No Listeria labeling
Contrary to earlier reports, USDA is backing off the idea of labels warning of possible Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.
May 31, 1999
Closures
Paperboard packs award-winning punch
Award winners in this year's Paperboard Packaging Competition range from digital camera bag sleeves to catheter cards to bagel cartons.
May 31, 1999
Protective/transport packaging
Tinted bottles shield milk from UV light
When it comes to milk jugs, "Yellow is better," according to Smith Dairy Products, maker of the opaque yellow "Super Jug" of milk. The extrusion-blown, high-density polyethylene jug blocks out ultraviolet light emanating from fluorescent lighting in the supermarket dairy case or from the sun itself, according to the company.
May 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
TechniStar Corp.: Muffin-transfer system
TechniStar's (Longmont, CO) TMT Series transfer system for cake products uses an end-of-arm tool with as many as 36 vacuum cups to pick up baked and cooled muffins or cupcakes and place them in acetate trays, in one motion.
May 31, 1999
Closures
Hormel's pack makes bacon ready-to-eat
For the first time, fully precooked bacon strips are now available virtually anywhere in the supermarket. A new thermoformed MAP flexible package allows Hormel Foods, Austin, MN, to pack oxygen-sensitive cooked bacon slices without refrigeration for up to four months.
April 30, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Beef labeling
Congress continues to ponder requiring country-of-origin labels on some imported foods, including beef and lamb. Package labels would indicate the origin of the meat source and the percentages of both domestic and imported meat when they are blended, as in ground beef.
April 30, 1999
Flexible packaging
Standing up to the competition
By early this summer, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler expects to complete its nationwide rollout of Cheez-It® baked snack mixes in three varieties.
April 30, 1999
Dairy
Kellogg, IP team up in school
A new school milk program from Kellogg Co. and International Paper (Memphis, TN) features 8-oz milk cartons displaying popular Kellogg characters on the side panels.
April 30, 1999
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