BPA, a chemical found in the lining of food and drink packaging, may affect the brain development of embryos, Us scientists have discovered.
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Profit dip for pie maker
Intense competition inside supermarkets and the growing popularity of private-label foods has seen pie maker Patties Foods post a 16.5 percent fall in first half profits.
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Choice launches campaign against over-the-top packaging [video]
Consumer group Choice has launched Pack Attack, a campaign aimed at encouraging manufacturers to produce consumer-friendly packaging.
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Packaging exhibition to expand
Organisers of AUSPACK PLUS 2013 announced they will add 202 square metres of venue space at the exhibition due to high demand.
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Australia to host WorldStar Packaging awards
The Australian Institute of Packaging has been invited to host this year's WorldStar Packaging awards, to be held alongside AUSPACK PLUS 2013.
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Birds Eye goes green with new recycling partnership
Frozen food brand, Birds Eye, has teamed up with waste reduction group, RED Group, in an Australian first nationwide recycling scheme.
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US food safety shake-up; Colombia’s coffee woes: Global News Bites
Global News Bites keeps you up-to-date on what's happening around the world in food and beverage manufacturing.
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Mixed reaction on new health labelling laws
Proposals to enact new stricter labelling laws have provoked a mixed response from food manufacturers and lobby groups.
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Woolworths to present at AIP dinner
Woolworths will be shedding light on its packaging techniques and trends at an upcoming dinner hosted by the Australian Institute of Packaging.
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Entries open for APPMA scholarship
Entries are now open for the fifth annual scholarship program organised by the Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association, together with the Australian Institute of Packaging.
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Global sales hike for food processing machinery
Food processing machinery sales across the globe are set to rise by 7.3 percent per year, hitting $53.3 billion in 2016.
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Is shrink-wrap on a cucumber really mindless waste?
Veterans of the packaging industry have debunked the myths and misconceptions about packaging in a new book, which aims to show why wrapping isn’t just a marketing tool.
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Malik takes out AIP scholarship
Now in its fourth year, the Australian Institute of Packaging, in conjunction with Cormack Packaging, has presented its scholarship to Nancy Malik, a UTS Sydney student.
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FSC-labelled packaging gains momentum worldwide: Tetra Pak
Food packaging and processing company, Tetra Pak, has announced that this year, more than 20 billion of its packages around the world have donned the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label.
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Pallet manufacturers to merge into CABKA Group
CABKA and Innova Packaging Systems are to merge under the umbrella of the newly founded CABKA Group.
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Pro-Pac acquires two companies
Continuing its consolidation strategy today Pro-Pac Packaging acquired the business and assets of Source and Sell and Stronghold wholesale.
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Wikicells Opens First Outlet Selling Food Packaged in Edible Skin
Edible packaging company Wikicells has opened its first store.
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John West orders Greenpeace video off YouTube
The dispute between Greenpeace and John West continues to gain momentum, with the environmental campaign group accusing the tuna company of “censorship” after it was forced to remove a video from YouTube.
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Drinking, smoking down but obesity rates up
Australians are drinking and smoking less but putting on weight like never before, a national survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found.
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Toblerone’s confusing labelling lands it on Choice Shonky List
There’s a lot of debate around lately about the labelling laws in Australia, but Toblerone really takes the cake with its utterly false claims, which made it the only food product to make it onto Choice’s Shonky Awards 2012 list.
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