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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

This standard specifies the method for determining the edgewise crush strength of corrugated fibreboard. This standard is applicable to the determination of the edgewise crush strength of single-wall (three-layer), double-wall (five-layer) and triple-wall (seven-layer) corrugated fibreboard. 2 Referenced standards The provisions contained in the following standards constitute provisions of this standard by virtue of reference in this standard. At the time of publication of this standard, the versions indicated were all valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties using this standard should investigate the possibility of applying the latest versions of the following standards.

Announcement No. 48 of 2009 of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine on Carrying Out Enforcement Against Unlicensed Production of Food-Grade Paper Packaging, Containers and Other Products In order to ensure the effective implementation of the production licensing system for food-grade paper packaging, containers and other products and to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and consumers, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Industrial Product Production Licenses, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has decided that, as of September 1, 2009, it will carry out nationwide

With the development of industrialization and the improvement of residents' living standards, milk and beverages are increasingly entering households, and the paper-plastic packaging materials that come with them have reached deeper into people's daily lives. How to ensure people's health while bringing convenience to their lives has made the hygiene requirements for milk and beverage packaging materials increasingly important. At present, there are mainly three forms of dairy and beverage packaging on the market: the first is paper-plastic composite packaging, the second is plastic film (three-layer film,

Starting May 1, 2007, a standard for the characterization of four-color printing will officially take effect. The standard, whose full title is GB/T 20439-2006 Graphic technology — Prepress digital data exchange — Input data for characterization of four-colour printing, has recently been approved by the Standardization Administration of China and handed to the Standards Press of China for publication, and is expected to be officially released by the end of this year. The standard was by the National Technical Committee on Printing Standardization

On June 18, the website of the Beijing Municipal Administration of Work Safety issued the "Occupational Health Management Standard for Printing Industry Workplaces in Beijing (Trial)" (the "Standard"), which enters trial implementation on August 1. The Standard sets out the basic requirements, control measures and management measures for occupational health management in printing enterprises, and applies to occupational health management in printing enterprises in Beijing engaged in book, newspaper and periodical printing, booklet printing, and packaging and decoration printing. The Standard proposes that printing enterprises