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[ppzhan abstract] Environmental pollution has become an issue of public concern, with particular attention paid to the recycling and reuse of waste, and foamed plastic that cannot be recycled or reused has become the chief culprit behind white pollution after plastic bags. On December 31, 2007, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on restricting the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags, a notice the public calls the "plastic restriction order." The reason given for its introduction is that while plastic shopping bags provide consumers with convenience

China's first national food nutrition labeling standard, the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, will be officially implemented as of January 1, 2013. The General Rules is the first mandatory national standard on food nutrition labeling, and will provide clear regulation and guidance for the review of nutrition labels on prepackaged foods. It sets out explicit provisions for the nutrition facts table, nutrition claims and nutrient function claims in nutrition labeling. The mandatory contents to be declared in the nutrition facts table include energy, protein, fat

On November 5, 2012, the Printing and Distribution Management Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Science and Technology Standards Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection jointly held the 2012 Green Printing Promotion Conference in Beijing and launched this year's Green Printing Awareness Week. At the meeting, Wang Yanbin, Director of the Printing and Distribution Management Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication, officially released the 2012 Report on Achievements in Implementing Green Printing to the industry. 1. Implementing green printing has raised the level of energy conservation and consumption reduction among printing enterprises. Eco-friendly drying ovens, secondary combustion,

[ppzhan abstract] The new edition of the Green Printing Handbook, jointly compiled by the Department of Printing and Distribution Management of the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Department of Science, Technology and Standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, has been officially published and released, serving as an important guide for government authorities, printing enterprises and all sectors of society to understand green printing and advance its implementation. With the Green Printing Promotion Conference held on November 5, the 2012 Green Printing Publicity Week was also officially launched. At the meeting that day, the General Administration of Press and

On October 31 – November 1, 2012, the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC170) convened in Beijing the third working meeting of the drafting group for two national digital printing standards, "Quality Requirements and Inspection Methods for Digital Printing Products" and "Quality Requirements and Inspection Methods for Digital Hard Proof Sheets." Participants came from Zhejiang Huaren Digital Printing Co., Ltd., Donggang Co., Ltd., Beijing Donggang Jiahua Security Information Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Printing (Group

Recently, a relevant printing technology committee put forward a draft standard on the CO2 generated by printed materials, "Quantification and Calculation of the Carbon Footprint of Print Media Products." The draft standard defines and adjusts how the CO2 carbon footprint generated by printed products is to be calculated. From the submission of this draft, the author sees that green printing will open a new era for printing. This may be a new opportunity for the sluggish printing industry. Green and environmental protection have always been, for our country and for all of humanity in their future development, apart from sci

[ppzhan abstract] More and more printing companies are beginning to develop cross-media technology services, but they are struggling with how to open up the market and introduce these new services to their own customers so that the services can be turned into revenue. How can this market be opened up? Who in the company is up to the job? In day-to-day sales, the people who meet customers are usually marketing department managers; some of them belong to the marketing team, such as hands-on marketing directors, sales vice presidents, or even the president

[ppzhan abstract] On November 5, in the multi-purpose conference hall on the second floor of the General Administration of Press and Publication, the Printing and Distribution Management Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Department of Science and Technology Standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection jointly convened the 2012 Green Printing Publicity Week; at the same time, this year's Green Printing Publicity Week was launched. The meeting consisted of five major sections, the first of which was the much-anticipated presentation of the "Report on the Results of Implementing Green Printing," delivered by Comrade Wang Yanbin, Director-General of the Printing and Distribution Management Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication

To safeguard consumer safety, the Haibowan Industry and Commerce Sub-bureau in Inner Mongolia has recently launched a special rectification campaign targeting food packaging utensils, combining regulation with guidance. First, strengthening routine supervision. Responsibilities are assigned to specific individuals so that supervision is fully in place, with the focus on tightening monitoring of bulk food sales at farmers' markets, supermarkets and food retail outlets, while stepping up daily inspections of residential areas, communities, the urban-rural fringe and remote areas, ensuring that no blind spots are left in the supervision process and achieving timely discovery

(1) Requirements for printing raw and auxiliary materials. Restrictions on phthalates. Phthalate esters (PEs) are a class of fat-soluble synthetic organic compounds, among which di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) are low-molecular-weight phthalate esters with a carbon content of 8 or below, and pose risks to human health