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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Dairy settles labeling suit

Monsanto, the sole manufacturer of growth hormones used in milk, settled a suit with a Maine dairy over a dairy’s labeling of its milk. The corporation charged that the dairy’s claim that its farmers don’t use artificial growth hormones in their milk production is misleading and implies that there is something wrong with these hormones.

February 29, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Fanuc Robotics America, Inc.

February 29, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Spreading visibility across the supply chain

Whether they package salads, beer, or car polish, manufacturers are seeking ways to give all stakeholders a better view of the supply chain.

February 29, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Inline p-s labeling system

Label-Aire offers its Inline Series 9000 inline pressure-sensitive label system for single- and multi-panel, front/back, and wrap labeling applications.

February 29, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA promotes safe use of pain products

The Food and Drug Administration launched a national education campaign to promote safer use of over-the-counter pain relief products, particularly those containing acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen sodium, and ketoprofen.

February 29, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Feldschloesschen Brewery: Labeling of beer in PET

Overhead view of the Krones Contiroll hot-glue labeler shows the feedscrew-to-starwheels transfer.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA issues drug bar-code regulation

On February 25, the Food and Drug Administration announced the issue of its final rule requiring bar codes on the labels of thousands of human drugs and biological products.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID survey: What consumers think

With all the buzz about radio-frequency identification, isn’t it time consumers chimed in about RFID? In this new survey, they do.

January 31, 2004

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RFID: Marks & Spencer

At the Intelligent and Smart Packaging USA 2004 conference held in Las Vegas Jan. 27-28, I had the opportunity to listen to speeches by representatives from Nestlé, Purina, AstraZeneca, the U.S. Department of Defense, and more.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID: Marks & Spencer's "Year of Action"

At the Intelligent and Smart Packaging USA 2004 conference held in Las Vegas Jan. 27-28, I had the opportunity to listen to speeches by representatives from Nestlé, Purina, AstraZeneca, the U.S. Department of Defense, and more.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Drug group seeks RFID tags, too

Following on the heels of Wal-Mart and the U. S. Department of Defense, the Healthcare Distribution and Management Assn. is now calling for drug makers and wholesalers to deploy radio-frequency identification tags using electronic product codes (EPC) on cases of product by the end of 2005.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

CCL Plastic Packaging (Los Angeles, CA) formed an alliance with Weener Plastik Packaging Group (Weener, Germany.) CCL will have exclusive license and distribution rights in the U.S.

January 31, 2004