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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexibles
Kraft matches cottage cheese and fruit
A thermoformed dual-compartment polystyrene container is being used by Kraft Foods for its new Cottage Doubles(TM) product. Available in refrigerated sections of supermarkets and Wal-Mart stores since June, Doubles are sold nationwide in three 5.5-oz varieties.
September 30, 1998
Food: Page 355
Labeling
Meat regs questioned
Requiring all beef and lamb sold in the U.S. be labeled "U.S.", "Imported", or "Blended with Imported" as mandated in the 1998 Agriculture Appropriations bill pending in Congress would cost the government $60 million to enforce and could hurt U.S.
September 30, 1998
Closures
Irradiation update
On August 17, FDA modified its labeling requirements for irradiated foods, eliminating the requirement that the irradiation disclosure be displayed prominently.
September 30, 1998
Flexible packaging
Innovations in plastics help foods flourish
Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.
September 30, 1998
Bakery/Snack
Portion-pack system
A new Rychiger system from Packaging Technologies & Inspection (Tuckahoe, NY) fills hot maple syrup into single-serve portion packs, and seals them at speeds to 50 cups/min.
August 31, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
Curwood: Meat pouch
A new coextruded, heat-sealable pouch from Curwood (Oshkosh, WI) was developed to provide meat processors with improved puncture-resistant, high-barrier packaging for primals and sub-primals.
August 31, 1998
Beverage
What packagers want in turnkey projects (sidebar)
Outsourcing not always 'in'
August 31, 1998
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Breakdown breakthrough?
Compostable films made with soy proteins are now technically viable according to new research from Michigan State University. Next up: overcoming scale and cost hurdles.
August 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA proposes labeling for nonpasteurized juices (sidebar)
FDA unfreezes 'healthy' label
August 31, 1998
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
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA to streamline dietary supplement labels
Agency proposes to shrink options for health claims, product names and symbols that can be used by makers of vitamins, supplements and herbals.
August 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Displaying a concern for retailers' needs
Fremont custom-designs a new type of display-ready, film-wrapped shipper around the needs of supermarket customers. A new case-packing/shrink-wrapping line makes the design a production reality, paid for by materials savings.
August 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Caito says, 'We'll do it ourselves'
This Indianapolis produce wholesaler is breaking into a whole new market segment as it brings its 12-oz Fresh Line fruit bowls to supermarket produce departments in the Midwest.
August 31, 1998
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