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Meat/Poultry/Seafood

New look with family appeal

Bisquick’s new look for the first time in more than 10 years features graphics on packages sold nationwide. They’re part of the Bisquick campaign to bring families back to the table with a collection of new, versatile dinner recipes for today’s generation.

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Additives, coatings & inks

Trends in glass-like packaging

The look of glass is in, but the price isn’t. That’s what two manufacturers showed visitors at the HBA expo this September in New York. Both Merle Norman and G.

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Labels

Companies

Sun Chemical Corp.

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Dairy

Nutrient-content label claims

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a final rule permitting nutrient-content claims on labels of multi-service “meal-type” and “main-dish” meat and poultry products.

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Labeling

Single food-safety agency?

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced comprehensive legislation to create a single food-safety agency that would combine the food safety regulatory authority of USDA, FDA, and the seafood program operated by the Department of Commerce.

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Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Other fish labels

The international Marine Stewardship Council will allow pollack fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands regions to use its coveted eco-label, signifying that the fish comes from a sustainably managed fishery that is friendly to the environment.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Delay in seafood COOL

The U.S. Department of Agriculture extended by six months mandatory country-of-origin labeling for fresh and frozen fish and seafood that had been scheduled to take effect in September 2004.

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Beverage

Jack Daniel's toasts stretch wrapper

Jack Daniel’s Lynchburg, TN, distillery maintains efficiency and protects pallet loads of glass-bottled Tennessee sour mash whiskey with automated stretch-wrapping equipment.

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Sustainable Packaging

Global or local packaging?

Many global brands do some tailoring for local customs, some altering the product while others vary the containers and packaging. A French study reveals details.

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Consumer packaged goods

Leased labelers lend Cadbury Schweppes' promo 'punch'

Four machines help Cadbury’s Aspers, PA, plant economically apply fan-folded stacked labels to nearly 13 million 1-gal PET bottles for a nationwide promotion.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Persuading Wal-Mart to say 'yes'

The nation’s leading retailer warms up to packaging that simplifies communication and emphasizes speed and ease for both consumer and sales associate.

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Containers

Technology opens a door at P&G

By hitching its wagon to that increasingly bright star called servo technology, P&G gains flexibility, increased capacity, and better utilization of equipment assets.

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