Business Management - Government/Governmental

Food Safety Standards
April 1, 2012

At the annual Global Food Safety Conference last February, packagePRINTING caught up with Robert Prevendar, director of supply chain food safety for NSF International's Global Food Safety Division, to get his perspective on the impact of food safety standards for package printers and converters.

2012 Critical Year for Tax Policy
February 20, 2012

The 50 percent bonus depreciation is still available for qualifying plant and equipment, but will expire on Jan. 1, 2013. However, the bonus depreciation rate of 100 percent that was available during 2011 expired on Jan. 1, 2012, and it remains to be seen whether it will be extended as a part of the House/Senate conference report on H.R. 3630.

Label Regs –Tom Polischuk
July 1, 2011

Lots of new and pending government regulations of product labeling were in the headlines recently. The news that received the most attention in the U.S. involved the FDA'S unveiling of new graphic warning label requirements for cigarette packaging.

Opportunity’s Still Knocking
April 1, 2009

One packaging segment that usually takes center stage at this time of year is that of flexible packaging when supermarket shelves are stuffed with bulk packages of candy for many of us to use on Easter Sunday. This makes sense since retail food is the biggest revenue generator for flexible packaging, according to the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA, www.flexpack.org) 2008 State of the Industry Survey.

TLMI Position Statement on EFCA
March 20, 2009

The Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) has released a Position Statement on The Employee Free Choice Act (also known as “Card Check”).

RadTech Announces Food Contact Notification 772 Receives FDA Approval
March 14, 2008

The RadTech Food Contact Notification Alliance is pleased to announce that Food Contact Notification (FCN) 772 received FDA approval on March 7, 2008, covering a range of workhorse acrylates and an optional photoinitiator. Specifically, FCN 772 clears for direct food contact any mixture of one or more of tripropylene glycol diacrylate (TPGDA), trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA), trimethylolpropane ethoxylate triacrylate (TMPEOTA), and bisphenol A diglycidyl ether diacrylate and optionally, Esacure One photoinitiator, cured by either ultraviolet (UV) or electron beam (EB) irradiation. Moreover, the applied formulations may include any combination with other reactants, polymers, additives, pigments, etc. already permitted for the intended use under 21 CFR.

RadTech Announces Food Contact Notification 772 Receives FDA Approval
March 14, 2008

The RadTech Food Contact Notification Alliance is pleased to announce that Food Contact Notification (FCN) 772 received FDA approval on March 7, 2008, covering a range of workhorse acrylates and an optional photoinitiator. Specifically, FCN 772 clears for direct food contact any mixture of one or more of tripropylene glycol diacrylate (TPGDA), trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA), trimethylolpropane ethoxylate triacrylate (TMPEOTA), and bisphenol A diglycidyl ether diacrylate and optionally, Esacure One photoinitiator, cured by either ultraviolet (UV) or electron beam (EB) irradiation. Moreover, the applied formulations may include any combination with other reactants, polymers, additives, pigments, etc. already permitted for the intended use under 21 CFR.

US Chamber of Commerce to Help Companies Access German Market
January 12, 2005

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) have established a free service-DIN INFO-POINT-that gives U.S. exporters, including machinery manufacturers, access to DIN product standards affecting their ability to sell in Germany and the European Union (EU) dramatically. For U.S. exporters, Germany is the largest single market in the 25-country European Union with machinery export sales of $3 billion in 2003. These exports represented 11 percent of the $26.5 billion in U.S. manufactured merchandise exports to Germany in 2003. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce points out that American companies interested in exporting products to Germany