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During the Shanghai World Expo, overseas participating countries will have a large number of publications, promotional materials, design drawings, audio-visual products and other printed and reproduced products that need to be printed. Taking service to the Expo as an opportunity, the Shanghai Municipal Press and Publication Bureau, while exercising strict supervision, held repeated talks and consultations with the Shanghai Expo Bureau, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone Customs, the Shanghai Customs Expo Park Supervision Service Center, China National Publications Import and Export Corporation and other units, and established a channel for Shanghai printing enterprises to undertake the printing of overseas participating countries

As a prime example of excessive packaging of commodities, mooncakes finally succeeded in "slimming down" this year. With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, a spot check of mooncake product quality published by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine showed that only 1% of mooncakes had excessive packaging problems. The excessive packaging phenomenon of cigarettes, liquor, tea, cameras and even gold ingots appearing in mooncake gift boxes has been effectively curbed. The issue of restricting excessive packaging of commodities, triggered by over-packaged mooncakes, has gone through several years of ups and downs and this year has also seen substantive progress. This afternoon

Recently, various departments have successively issued relevant standards such as the "Requirements for Limiting Excessive Packaging of Commodities — Food and Cosmetics," the "Starch Adhesives for Powdered Paper Products" and "ISO 22000." For the packaging industry, the introduction of these standards not only effectively guides enterprises in their production and operation, but also carries positive significance in improving product quality and promoting industry development. Interpreting issues related to the national standard "Starch Adhesives for Powdered Paper Products" Main content: adhesive

1. Prohibited Packaging Materials The United States stipulates that, to prevent the spread of plant pests and diseases, straw is prohibited as packaging material; if discovered by customs, it must be destroyed on the spot, and all resulting costs must be paid. New Zealand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Agricultural Quarantine Service stipulates that the following materials are strictly prohibited in imported goods packaging: soil, marl, hay, straw, wheat straw, chaff or bran, living moss, used old gunny sacks, and other waste materials. The Philippine Department of Health and Customs stipulate that all imported goods

The French government has issued a decree requiring that graphic warnings about the health hazards of smoking be printed on the outer packaging of all cigarettes sold in France. Under the new decree, in order for their products to meet sales standards, cigarette manufacturers must select several of the 14 warning images provided by the relevant French authorities and print them, together with the corresponding text warnings, on cigarette packaging. According to French media reports, the new decree lays down detailed rules for the relevant warning markings on cigarette packaging. These include

In 2009, under the unfavorable conditions of the global financial crisis, the relevant state departments formulated a number of favorable policies conducive to the import of high-tech printing equipment; in particular, the preferential policies on the value-added tax transformation reform and the substantial reduction of import tariffs effectively boosted China's imports of printing equipment. So what favorable policies can imported printing equipment enjoy this year? The new policies introduced this year mainly involve the setting or adjustment of provisional tax rates for certain high-tech equipment, substantially lower

Adding another lock to food safety, the Provisions on the Supervision and Administration of Food Additive Production officially came into force in June, and most packaged foods on the market today now identify the additives they contain on their outer packaging. However, reporters found during interviews that the clearly labeled food additives — because of their sheer variety and highly technical names — have left consumers with a great deal of confusion and even frightened quite a few of them. Additives not clearly labeled will be subject to a mandatory recall. Starting June 1 this year, the Food

of tea, yet it has been replaced with plexiglass or even crystal bottle packaging; 750 ml of red wine comes in a wooden box weighing about 2 jin. Relevant experts believe that, although the current regulations restricting excessive commodity packaging set corresponding limits on the number of packaging layers and the void ratio, there are still no mandatory provisions on packaging materials, and they suggest that the upcoming related regulations address this. "Excessive" packaging materials not yet restricted As the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, mooncake gift boxes, freshness

The Chinese government is further stepping up its support for the environmental protection industry. Since the Ministry of Finance issued the Measures for the Administration of High-Tech R&D Funds for the Packaging Industry, which specify that, in order to standardize the management of high-tech R&D funds for the packaging industry, support the packaging industry in actively developing new products and adopting new technologies, and promote the development of the circular economy and the green, eco-friendly packaging industry, from today, qualifying enterprises will have the opportunity to receive R&D funding support of as much as 5 million yuan. The scope of R&D funding support includes those with a level of or

The "three sins" of excessive packaging. The first "sin" is the massive waste of resources it causes, endangering an already grim living environment and strained resources, and running counter to China's stated aim of building a conservation-minded society. The "second sin" is that, because China's current recovery rate for packaging waste is very low, it has become a major source of municipal waste. The "third sin" is that excessive packaging also encourages the gift-giving habit among consumers, breeding corruption and tainting the social atmosphere. Commodities