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Coding, Printing & Labeling

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

Sustainability

Driving the use of renewable resources

Aveda's John Delfausse offers advice for those involved in advancing the use of renewable resources in their companies’ packaging operations.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

A glimpse into global beverage applications

Wondering what’s going on around the globe when it comes to beverage packaging? A look at a recent elotalk newsletter yields some insights, though it’s important to note that these insights and applications are through the lens of supplier Elopak.

January 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

Pharmaceutical packaging demand to rise

The United States will remain the largest market for pharmaceutical packaging according to World Pharmaceutical Packaging, a new study from The Freedonia Group.

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

Controls & Machine Components

Mobile part storage fights for U.S. Marines

Behind the scenes in the war in Iraq, the United States Marine Corps has been supplied in part by container carousel storage systems from FKI Logistex White Systems.

January 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

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

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling changes recommended

In a mid-December 2003 report commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Health Canada, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called for redoing the Nutrition Facts panel on food labels.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

COOL delayed

Country-of-origin labeling requirements were put on hold for two years as lawmakers worked to wrap up a massive spending bill to keep the government in business by the end of the year.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Health claims labeling

FDA issued an advance notice of proposed rule making on how it will regulate qualified health claims. FDA solicited comments on three options. One would codify the current interim procedures and the ranking system based on the amount of scientific evidence.

January 31, 2004