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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Organic equals healthy, GM = ?

More than 6 in 10 American shoppers believe organic foods are better for their health. But, according to a new study by the Food Marketing Institute and Prevention magazine entitled “Shopping for Health 2002: Self-Care Perspectives, Volume 2: Organic Foods and Genetically Modified Foods,” many remain confused about genetically modified foods.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Mark your calendar

FDA has established January 1, 2006, as the uniform compliance date for food labeling regulations issued between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2004.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

More time for testing

FDA has asked the Office of Management and Budget to extend its approval of consumer surveys used by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) in deciding labeling policies for food and dietary supplements.

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Sustainability

Technical Innovation shines (sidebar)

Highest Achievements

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Flexible packaging

Technical Innovation shines

Food packaging was well represented among the winners in the Technical Innovation category of this year’s FPA awards competition.

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Flexible packaging

FPA awards show flexible versatility

From fruit to juice to dog food to premixed grout, the winners in the Packaging Excellence category in FPA’s annual competition are a mixed bag.

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Flexible packaging

Printing packs a punch

Winners of FPA’s Printing Achievement awards were noted for advances in CTP technology, VOC-free inks, display impact, ‘nuanced color tones’ via gravure printing, and complex distortion printing capabilities.

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Controls & Machine Components

Q&A: Reducing controls headaches

We recently interviewed Bob Martell, an automation engineer based in Pharmacia Corp.’s main Kalamazoo, MI, facility, to find out how Plug-and-Pack™ guidelines from the OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Packaging Workgroup are saving Pharmacia and its machinery suppliers time and money.

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Controls & Machine Components

A servo-driven partnership

A donation of servo technology to a technical college yields students with motion control experience that the packaging field so desperately seeks.

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Controls & Machine Components

Temperature controller improves heat seals

A total of 12 temperature zones are consistently maintained to within ± 5°F thanks to a microprocessor-controlled module fully integrated into a DeviceNet fieldbus.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging 'ahoy'

Congressional mandates on ocean shipping security are expected to stimulate packaging and container technology.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Filling and closing machine

The Contiline linear, continuous-motion liquid filling and closing monobloc style machine from the Kugler Div. of Optima Packaging (Green Bay, WI) has 6 rotary piston pumps and a centrifugal sorting device that conveys the containers to the capping area.

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