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[ppzhan Summary] As living standards rise, people pay more attention to food safety issues. In recent years, food safety incidents caused by packaging problems have occurred from time to time. Recently, Taiwan, China issued advance notice of an amendment to the draft 'Inspection Methods for Food Utensils, Containers and Packaging - Inspection of Plastics Made with Formaldehyde-Melamine as Synthetic Raw Materials'. A few days ago, the 'Ministry of Health and Welfare' of the Taiwan region of China issued Announcement No. 10219506

[ppzhan Summary] Recently, smoggy weather has seriously affected the lives of people in the three northeastern provinces, and Beijing has activated its emergency plan for heavy pollution. But this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause; to prevent and control air pollution we must solve the problem at the source. In 2014 China will develop air pollutant emission standards for industries including packaging and printing. Smog has invaded China in an alarming way; in these past few days the capital cities of the three northeastern provinces have all been shrouded in haze and fog, their

According to relevant personnel of the Kunshan Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, in October this year, while inspecting imported food from Taiwan, China, the bureau successively found nine batches of food with non-compliant labels, involving candy, pastries, beverages and so on. It is reported that since the 'General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods' took effect on January 1 this year, the Kunshan Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has strengthened conformity testing of food nutrition labels, cumulatively finding 20 batches of non-compliant labels. These mainly manifested as incomplete labeling of the basic elements of labels, for example missing nutritional ingredients

[ppzhan Summary] As one of China's traditional industries, printing has always been an important part of China's economy. Recently, abolishing the minimum registered capital requirement will undoubtedly lower the entry threshold of the printing industry once again, which will inject new vitality into the printing industry, which is currently at a low point in its development. On October 25, the State Council held an executive meeting to study and arrange the reform of the company registered capital registration system. The main content of this reform: first, to abolish the minimum registered capital requirement for limited liability companies

[ppzhan Summary] Some time ago, the working group meeting on two new standards and the sixth plenary meeting of the ISO/TC122/SC4 'Packaging and the Environment' technical committee were held, and China also sent representatives to attend. The meeting focused on discussing the working drafts (WD) and key technical issues of two new ISO standards proposed by our institute, 'Packaging and the Environment - Terminology' and 'Packaging and the Environment - Material Identification Marking'. This is a standard proposed by China

[ppzhan Summary] Papermaking pollution has always been a great enemy of China's environmental protection industry. Recently, Dongguan, Guangdong held a press conference on the 'Alliance Standard on Water Intake Quotas for the Papermaking Industry', to promote the sustainable development of the papermaking industry. On the 10th, Zhongtang Town in Dongguan, Guangdong held a press conference on the 'Alliance Standard on Water Intake Quotas for the Papermaking Industry'. Leaders from Dongguan City, the Economic and Information Bureau, the Water Affairs Bureau and the Zhongtang Town government, as well as key municipal energy-saving and consumption-reduction enterprises and the Zhongtang Town papermaking industry, attended that day's event.

[ppzhan Summary] Driven by environmental awareness, green printing has become the main direction of the printing industry's development. After three years of implementation, China's green printing has achieved results, and it has now been decided to extend it to the bill printing industry. Recently, the state issued the 'Notice on Implementing Green Printing for Bills and Vouchers'. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Certification and Accreditation Administration of China recently jointly issued the 'Notice on

[ppzhan Summary] Recently, the 2013 China (Hangzhou) World Packaging Industry Summit Forum was held in Hangzhou, with more than 600 people from around the world attending. At the meeting, Wang Jiazhuo, executive chairman of the SME Alliance, read out the 'Hangzhou Declaration of the World Packaging Industry Center Alliance', excerpted as follows. On November 19, the 2013 China (Hangzhou) World Packaging Industry Summit Forum grandly opened in Hangzhou, and the World Packaging Industry Center invited

[ppzhan Summary] As people's health awareness keeps growing, the printing industry is 'forced' to develop in a green and environmentally friendly direction. This has become the development direction of the printing industry. Now Western developed countries also put forward various environmental requirements in different areas. The following are excerpts for reference by printing enterprises. As is well known, if heavy metal elements and phthalates accumulate in the various organs of the human body over the long term, they will certainly harm human health, especially the healthy growth of children

[ppzhan Summary] In today's market economy, no matter which country it is, once new regulations and policies are issued they will affect the development of the relevant industries. So enterprises must be clear about changes in policy, especially those whose main business is exporting. Recently, Thailand proposed implementing new prepackaged food labeling regulations, and relevant Chinese enterprises should pay close attention to their development. Recently, Thailand's Food and Drug Administration proposed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) the implementation of new prepackaged