Business Management - Government/Governmental

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Nutrition Facts label that appears on food and beverage packaging is going to look a little different. On Friday, the FDA announced the changes, which it says will help consumers make more informed purchasing choices.

Beginning July 1, packaging in the state of Vermont is going to look a little different. The Green Mountain State has passed new legislation pertaining to food packaging and labeling at the retail level. Are you ready for the packaging change?

TLMI has announced that Mark Tibbetts has been selected as the association’s new president, effective January 1, 2016. Tibbetts will become the association’s fourth president in TLMI’s 82 year history.

SGS International has announced an exclusive partnership with Prime Label Consultants. The partnership provides a resource for label creation and compliance in advance of proposed Food and Drug Administration changes to the Nutrition Facts Label.

Dr. Gregory Pace, a manager of global regulatory affairs at Sun Chemical, will discuss the impact of varying approaches to the regulation of packaging inks in North America and Europe at the Food Contact & Additives Conference.

Chromatic Technologies has announced that a Colorado court jury found that four former CTI employees misappropriated company trade secrets and business information in an attempt to copy the company’s proprietary technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.