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On February 1, the Several Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging (hereinafter referred to as the "Provisions") will take effect in Shanghai. This is the first local regulation on commodity packaging reduction in the history of China's campaign against excessive packaging, and it will create a demonstration effect nationwide; therefore, it has attracted close industry attention ever since Shanghai released the draft of the Provisions in July last year. In this battle against increasingly rampant excessive packaging, Shanghai has moved to the forefront by putting it into legislation. The promulgation of the Provisions will change the past

To all printing enterprises in the city: In order to strengthen the supervision and administration of the printing industry, further consolidate the achievements of the 2012 special campaign for the supervision of printing, reproduction and distribution, continuously improve the "four major access" system of press and publication administration, and promote the scaled, intensive and specialized development of the printing industry, in accordance with Article 61 of the Administrative Licensing Law and the Notice of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Press and Publication Bureau on Conducting the 2013 Annual Verification of Printing Enterprises (Guangxi Press and Publication Bureau [2013

On January 23, 2013, the smoggy weather in Hangzhou had already passed. Although this weather did not have too great an impact on the lives of the people of Hangzhou, it is true that during this period the number of patients with respiratory infections at the major hospitals increased. This is undoubtedly another alarm bell rung by environmental pollution. Haze, also known as gray haze (smoke haze), refers to dust, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, organic hydrocarbons and other particles in the air that make the atmosphere turbid, blur vision and cause visibility to deteriorate; if the horizontal visibility can

On January 17, 2013, the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee held the second working meeting of the drafting group for the national standard Requirements and Test Methods for Printability of Coated Paper for Heatset Web Offset Printing in Hefei, Anhui Province. Participants came from Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., Hefei Sino-German Printing Training Center, UPM (China) Co., Ltd., Tianjin Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., C&C Joint Printing (Guangdong) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hunan Yueyang Forest & Paper

The General Office of the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) recently issued the Catalog of Production-Type Digital Printing Machines (2012), in which the number of production-type digital printing machines listed has grown from 151 in the 2011 edition to 247 in the 2012 edition. As a supporting document to the Measures for the Administration of Digital Printing issued by GAPP in January 2011, the Catalog further unifies the criteria for identifying production-type digital printing machines and clarifies the approval basis for digital printing enterprises. The Catalog covers

[ppzhan abstract] As the year-end approaches, governments in many places have begun special rectification campaigns in the printing industry. Wenzhou, a major packaging and printing city, is among them, and Cangnan County has adopted a multi-pronged approach to crack down hard on illegal printing and reproduction activities. Recently, the rectification work of the printing industry in Cangnan County will aim to establish a long-term management mechanism, combining inspection with supervision, addressing symptoms with root causes, and cracking down on counterfeits with supporting quality producers, taking a multi-pronged approach to effectively curb and crack down hard on all kinds of illegal printing and reproduction activities, and earnestly

Starting tomorrow (February 1), the "Several Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging" will be officially implemented. As a local regulation for the country, these Provisions will further regulate commodity packaging on the basis of the national standard. Further refined on the basis of the national standard So-called "excessive packaging" refers to packaging that exceeds the appropriate functional requirements of packaging, where the packaging void ratio, number of packaging layers and packaging cost exceed the necessary level. In 2009, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued the national standard GB233

On January 10, at the 2013 press conference held by the Ministry of Health, Yang Yuexin, director of the Evaluation Office of the National Institute for Nutrition and Health under the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the implementation rules for the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods are expected to be fully introduced this year. When describing the specific measures taken since the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods came into effect, Yang Yuexin said: First, Q&A on more than 70 items of the General Rules has been published on the Ministry of Health website, which can basically address issues of public concern and corporate

Unlike in previous years, the 2013 centralized bidding for designated printing services for central government agencies requires that, for projects with a printing value of 200,000 yuan to 1.2 million yuan (1.2 million yuan included), procuring units select three or more designated printing enterprises (three included) to submit sealed quotations. Of these, at least one enterprise must be randomly selected from among the designated enterprises through the Central Government Procurement Network. The author learned from the contract award ceremony for 2013 central government agency designated printing suppliers held a few days ago

[ppzhan abstract] The Spring Festival, as a traditional Chinese holiday, always brings rapid growth to the food market. On the one hand this reflects people's demand for food, while on the other it also offers convenience to unscrupulous traders, because counterfeit and shoddy products are especially rampant at this time of year. But if consumers can clearly recognize the type sizes on packaging labels, they can fully protect their rights and interests from harm. The labeling content on packaging is a bewildering array of items that leaves one dazzled, and ordinary consumers