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[ppzhan abstract] The Draft Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging, recently submitted for deliberation at the current session of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, clearly stipulates that from now on, if goods sold by a seller are excessively packaged, the seller may face a fine of up to 100,000 yuan, starting with strict control at the sales end to force manufacturers to stop over-packaging their goods. This policy is good news for the tea packaging market, when "over-packaged" tea cannot be sold, or brings a 100,000 yuan fine

Standardization work in China's printing industry got off to a relatively late start, companies have a weak awareness of standardization and the level of standardization is not high, particularly in the field of screen printing. Competition in the screen printing market therefore urgently needs the implementation of standardization to bring it into order. With the rapid growth of the national economy, China's screen printing industry has been growing at a double-digit rate every year, especially after China's accession to the WTO, when more and more multinational companies entered the competition in the Chinese market, while some Chinese enterprises

Will the new measure keep the rim of paper cups "blank" and save drinkers from swallowing ink? Tomorrow the national standard for paper cups officially takes effect. From this standard, numbered GB/T27590-2011 (hereafter "the national standard"), the reporter noted that the eye-catching provision is that there should be no printed patterns within 15 mm of the cup rim down the cup body or within 10 mm of the cup base up the cup body. This means that the paper cups we use from now on will no longer be colored all over. The national standard also stipulates that paper cups should not have

[ppzhan abstract] On July 23, the 35th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress deliberated on China's first local regulation on commodity packaging reduction — the Several Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging (Draft) (hereinafter referred to as the "Provisions (Draft)") — and widely solicited opinions from the public. The Provisions (Draft) sets out explicit provisions on the scope of responsibilities of each department. The Provisions (Draft) makes clear that the sales link, the terminal end, is to be taken as the regulatory lever

[ppzhan abstract] 1. GB/T4857.14—1999 Packaging — Transport packages — Toppling test method. The revisions to this standard adopt ISO8768:1987, Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages — Toppling test. The standard specifies the main performance requirements for the test equipment used in the "toppling test for transport packages", the test procedures and the content of the test report. This standard can be used to evaluate the impact sustained by transport packages when toppled

[ppzhan abstract] On August 15 local time, Australia's High Court dismissed appeals from several major tobacco companies, ruling that the "plain tobacco packaging law" introduced by the Australian government is not unconstitutional. This move has produced a "domino" effect among other countries around the world. Soon afterward, Argentina's Chamber of Deputies began discussing tobacco-control legislation that follows Australia's example, and a similar bill is highly likely to be passed by the Chamber of Deputies. Compared with the legislation implemented by Australia

[ppzhan abstract] From January 1, 2013, China's national standard for food nutrition labeling, the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, was officially implemented. In order to help food companies understand the General Rules as soon as possible and standardize food labeling in accordance with the relevant provisions, the National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention under the Ministry of Health will, as its next step, take three years to engage in in-depth interaction with the food industry and push for the implementation of standards related to food nutrition labeling. The state's January 1, 2013

One day after Australia's High Court ruled to uphold the government's plain tobacco packaging law, the EU announced it is also considering introducing stricter anti-smoking regulations, including a ban on the appearance of trademarks on cigarette packaging. Australia's High Court recently ruled against several major tobacco companies that had jointly opposed the new anti-smoking law. The ruling means that, starting in December this year, all cigarettes sold in Australia must use unattractive olive-green packaging, with no trademarks, and must also be printed with warnings about smoking

Recently, media reports have claimed that excessive fluorescent substances in paper containers for instant noodles, milk tea and similar products will harm health. The relevant information on the applicable standards for food packaging paper is set out below: China's Hygienic Standard for Base Paper for Food Packaging (GB11680-89) explicitly specifies the hygienic limits for lead, arsenic, fluorescent substances, the decolorization test, coliform bacteria and pathogenic bacteria in base paper that comes into direct contact with food, and the supporting testing method standard, the Hygienic Standard for Food Packaging Base Paper

According to reports, the National Food Safety Standard — General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods — officially takes effect on January 1 next year. The General Rules require that, apart from those separately stipulated as "exempt," all prepackaged foods must mandatorily carry nutrition labels indicating the content of four core nutrients, namely protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium, and foods with non-compliant nutrition labels may not be sold. Nutrition labels guide consumers to pay attention to nutritional components and are a means of preventing chronic