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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Free speech or safety
FDA is asking the public to comment on whether or not its regulations and policies on product labeling and advertising are constitutional in light of recent court decisions that generally supported First Amendment rights for “commercial speech.” The agency noted that there “may be tension between some aspects of FDA’s authority and judicial developments.” The case law, FDA said, “may threaten to diminish the overall legal credibility necessary for FDA to sustain its authority to accomplish its important public health duties.” The public was asked to comment on nine specific questions related to the regulation of advertising and labeling.
June 30, 2002
Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1611
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Country-of-origin labeling
Proponents of country-of-origin labeling have scored a major hit. The 2002 Farm Bill, signed by President George W. Bush, mandates country-of-origin labeling for meat, produce, fish, and peanuts.
June 30, 2002
Additives, coatings & inks
Food contact substances
FDA has issued a guidance document to help the food industry prepare food contact notifications (FCNs) for food contact substances (FCSs) such as packaging.
June 30, 2002
Converting equipment
'Healthy' carton energizes nutritional beverage
Multilayer, skived-edge gable-top carton for NuVim’s energy drinks virtually eliminates previous carton’s tendency to bulge.
June 30, 2002
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Double (and triple) dose of convenience?
Co-packaging of drugs can help medication compliance. But lack of FDA policy impedes packaging applications.
June 30, 2002
Contract Packaging
Salaries satisfy (sidebar)
Who participated in survey
June 30, 2002
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Clever layout enhances bottling efficiency (sidebar)
HDPE bottles, too
June 30, 2002
Flexibles
2001 PLGA Printing Awards
Packaging World highlights winners of the Packaging and Label Gravure Assoc. 2001 awards for excellence in printing.
June 30, 2002
Flexibles
Alliedflex becomes N.A. sales rep for Arpac
The Arpac Group, Schiller Park, IL, has established a North American sales representative agreement with Alliedflex Technologies.
June 30, 2002
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Heinz adds stick packs
Beginning in April, Heinz European Foodservice began selling seven of its condiments in a 12 cm (4.72") x 2 cm (.78") flexible stick pack.
June 30, 2002
Flexible packaging
PEF names Eastman Kodak Packaging Leader of the Year
The Packaging Education Forum (PEF) awards Eastman Kodak Co. as its Packaging Leader of the Year 2002-2003.
June 30, 2002
Closures
Grinders add a spicy twist
Grinders, from McCormick & Co., Hunt Valley, MD, enable consumers to add the flavor of fresh-ground spices into their foods.
June 30, 2002
Conveying & accumulation
Robotic palletizer at North Side
Editor’s Note: This article is a sidebar to the feature story North Side super-sizes packaging value that ran in the July issue of Packaging World, p.
June 30, 2002
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