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According to a recently released survey report on healthcare and beauty advertising, young people appear more willing to respond to print ads than to online ads. The survey, conducted by MediaVest on behalf of Avon, shows that for health and beauty products, print advertising is markedly more effective than online advertising. David Shiffman, vice president of MediaVest, said: "People's attention to magazine ads

This standard specifies the varieties and technical requirements, test rules, and marking, packaging, transport and storage of new water-based inks for flexographic printing. This standard applies to water-based inks produced mainly from water-soluble resins with the addition of pigments, fillers and additives through compound grinding, and the products can be widely used in flexographic and gravure printing for food, tobacco and alcohol, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, children's toys and other printed packaging. 2. Referenced standards The provisions contained in the following standards, through their citation in this standard

Standard name GB/T 451.1-2002 Determination of dimensions and skewness of paper and paperboard GB/T 451.2-2002 Determination of grammage of paper and paperboard GB/T 451.3-2002 Determination of thickness of paper and paperboard GB/T 452.1-2002 Determination of machine direction and cross direction of paper and paperboard GB/T 452.2-2002 Determination of the top side and the bottom side of paper and paperboard GB/T

This standard specifies the packaging and marking of paper for selection by production and user departments, which shall be indicated in the order contract; where special requirements exist, they may be added to the corresponding chapter of the product standard. This standard applies to the packaging and marking of flat paper, roll paper and reel paper transported by various different transport methods. 2 Referenced standards: GB 191 Packaging and transport pictorial markings. 3 Packaging of flat paper a. Flat paper has the following six packaging methods: b. Wooden clamp board packaging; c

According to reports, the administrative measures for food label filing will regulate food production and processing enterprises in four aspects: standardization of label markings, the filing system, the processing time for label filing, the period of validity, and the use of existing labels. Food labels shall indicate the food name, net content, ingredient list, the generic names of the food additives used as specified in national standards, production date, food shelf life, the standard applied, production license number, quality grade, and the name and address of the producer or distributor,

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the Standardization Administration of China recently issued the national standard "Requirements for Limiting Excessive Packaging of Commodities — Food and Cosmetics", which officially came into force on April 1, 2010. The standard can be summed up in three figures: the void ratio of commodity packaging must not exceed 60%; the number of packaging layers must not exceed three; and packaging costs must not exceed 20% of the commodity's selling price. But the author has seen online that this standard has been questioned and even opposed by some enterprises and industry associations. Opposition

Recently, the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health established a mass migration limit for food packaging printed with inks containing 4-methylbenzophenone or benzophenone, stipulating that the total migration limit of 4-methylbenzophenone and benzophenone from printing ink materials in food packaging must be below 0.6 mg per kilogram. Printing inks are used in a large number of food packaging applications, but they contain large amounts of toxic and hazardous chemical substances such as heavy metals, residual solvents, volatile organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which can

On May 11, 2009, the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC 170) organized in Beijing a consultation meeting on three national standards — "Process Control and Testing Methods for Lamination of Paper Printed Products — Part 1: Basic Requirements," "Process Control and Testing Methods for Lamination of Paper Printed Products — Part 2: EVA-Type Pre-Coated Lamination" and "Process Control and Testing Methods for Lamination of Paper Printed Products — Part 4: PUR-Type Wet Lamination" — and the drafting group

On May 11, the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC 170) organized in Beijing the consultation and drafting group establishment meeting for three national standards: Process Control and Testing Methods for Lamination of Paper Printed Products — Part 1: Basic Requirements, Process Control and Testing Methods for Lamination of Paper Printed Products — Part 2: EVA-type Pre-coated Lamination, and Process Control and Testing Methods for Lamination of Paper Printed Products — Part 4: PUR-type Wet-coating Lamination

On May 27, 2009, the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC170) convened an expert review meeting at the Ruicheng Hotel in Beijing on the drafts for review of three packaging post-press standards (die-cutting, hot stamping/embossing, and box making). More than 40 SAC/TC170 committee members and specially invited experts from across the country attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by SAC/TC170 Secretary-General Li An together with review panel head Li Jiaxiang and Cao Fengling. Secretary-General Li An introduced