Labels

Jelly even safer to spread

To start off the year, Palmetto Canning Co., Palmetto, FL, relaunched its Palmalito brand of jams and jellies in a 16-oz glass jar with a 2-mil PVC heat-shrinked label that provides tamper evidence.

May 31, 2002

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Flow wrapping

At interpack 2002

NEWS FROM INTERPACK 2002: Packworld.com looks at some of the show’s notable news and products.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

U of OPP graduates 8,000th student

Juan Carlos Molotia, from Barcel Mexico, S.A. de C.V., recently became the 8ꯠth student to graduate from the University of Oriented Polypropylene, a flexible packaging and labeling education program hosted by the Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

rBST labeling

A bill in the Rhode Island House requiring labeling of all containers in or from which milk containing the growth hormone rBST is sold or offered for sale drew a sharp letter of opposition from the Grocery Manufacturers of America.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Canada rejects country-of-origin labeling

In mid-March, Michael Kergin, the Canadian Ambassador to the United States, sent a letter to the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate and House agriculture committees expressing Canada’s opposition to country of origin labeling provisions contained in the U.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling committee to meet

The Codex Committee on Food Labeling is scheduled to meet in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on May 6-10, 2002, to examine a number of issues.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

OTC labeling

April 16, 2002, was the compliance date for OTC drug packages to bear the standardized format and content requirements established by FDA on March 17, 1999.

April 30, 2002

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

EastPack opens in New York

Co-located with three other shows in New York City’s Javits Center, EastPack 2002 runs June 4 through June 6. A full IoPP conference schedule is part of the package.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling machines

Arca Etichette’s (Milan, Italy) 2000 Series labeling machines comprise 4 models: Easy, Evolution, Performance, and Wind. Each accepts paper widths of 6”.

March 31, 2002

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Web site info an extension of labeling

Claims for food products made on Web sites need to be scrutinized as carefully as if they were printed on packages or labels. So claims Betty Campbell, AAC Consulting Group (Rockville, MD) in remarks this month at the 13th annual conference and exposition of the International Fresh-Cut Produce Assn., Alexandria, VA.

March 31, 2002

Cartoning

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

March 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

China's biotech regs trouble U.S. officials

China is the latest nation attempting to impose labeling requirements for imported biotech foods.

March 31, 2002