Prepared Foods

Culinary expertise lifts stocks

Charles Dale, an award-winning chef and restaurateur based in Aspen, CO, is co-founder of Dale’s Kitchen, which is set to debut a line of aseptic bag-in-box ingredient stocks used for soups and other dishes.

August 31, 2005

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Prepared Foods

World Kitchen's 'try me' package extends brand

World Kitchen has extended its equity in bakeware into silicone products.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Nutrition labeling update

In comments submitted to the Food and Drug Administration, the Flexible Packaging Association recommended that FDA move ahead only with voluntary changes to the nutrition label regarding calories and serving size.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New Codex food standards

Codex, the international food body, adopted more than 20 new or amended food standards during its early July meeting in Rome with 120 countries participating.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

No 'and/or' for soft drinks

Soft drink manufacturers must ensure that the sweetening ingredients used in their products are correctly listed on labels, now that FDA has ruled that proposed “and/or” labeling is not warranted.

August 31, 2005

Bakery/Snack

Potato chips beware

Several California-based lawyers have filed notice with the California Attorney General claiming that potato chip manufacturers are violating California’s Proposition 65 after a recent report indicated high levels of acrylamide in potato chips.

August 31, 2005

Labels

When insensitivity can spur development

One of the great indicators of our business heading into a new period of product development is when we continue to hear about insensitivity to higher prices for packaging materials.

August 31, 2005

Protective/transport packaging

ISU gains big assists from industry

Indiana State University is tapping packaging resources through its new R&D Center.

August 31, 2005

Labels

PET bottles shake up cocktail-mix market

Unique packaging hits bull’s-eye for Target stores’ liquor departments.

August 31, 2005

Beverage

A vision for the future

Veteran branding experts say the packages that will have staying power will be rooted in solid consumer research and precise targeting rather than on passing fads.

August 31, 2005

Consumer packaged goods

A vision for the future (sidebar)

The Visionary Package

August 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID is scalable

Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable. See video

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Deluxe RFID is scalable (sidebar)

Deluxe testing and training

August 31, 2005