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The new Cleaner Production Promotion Law took effect yesterday, setting explicit provisions to curb excessive packaging and ending the practice of making enterprises pay for cleaner production audits. Liquor, tea, health products and other goods often come wrapped in three or four layers of inner and outer packaging and cost far more than similar products in ordinary packaging, and the problem of some goods being "dressed too thickly" is expected to ease with the implementation of the Cleaner Production Promotion Law, curbing waste and lowering commodity prices. National People's Congress Environment and Resources Protection

[ppzhan abstract] In recent years, the problem of excessive packaging of commodities has increasingly become a hot topic of public concern, and the media have repeatedly exposed and criticized it. The phenomenon of excessive commodity packaging is to some extent widespread, involving many categories of goods such as tea, tobacco and alcohol, health products, cosmetics, stationery and clothing, and most of the packaging materials are paper boxes and bags, glass bottles, plastic products and metal boxes and cans. For Shanghai, among the harms brought about by excessive commodity packaging, the more pressing issue is gar

[ppzhan abstract] The Ministry of Health recently published the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods on its website, requiring prepackaged foods to carry nutrition labeling information, a regulation that will take effect on January 1 next year. Industry insiders say the rules compel food manufacturers to use nutrition labels, which will help gradually reduce the use of salt, fat and sugar, allow consumers to select nutritious foods in a targeted manner, and promote balanced dietary nutrition and public health. Prepackaged food does not have

[ppzhan abstract] For printing enterprises mainly engaged in export-oriented processing trade, or printing-related enterprises with trade operations, changes in bonded zone policies and the strength of incentives have always attracted much attention and remain a focus of close concern for domestic and overseas customers. A person in charge of the relevant department of the Shanghai Municipal Press and Publication Bureau, in an interview with a reporter from China Press and Publication News, said: "Shanghai's printing manufacturing industry, which was originally based mainly on processing, is now facing a new development issue; at present, printing enterprises undertaking overseas

[ppzhan abstract] Shanghai is exploring local legislation to curb excessive packaging of goods. Yesterday, the Draft Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging, submitted for deliberation at the current session of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, explicitly stipulated that from now on, if goods sold by a seller are excessively packaged, the seller could face a fine of up to 100,000 yuan, tightening regulation at the sales end to force manufacturers to stop excessively packaging their goods. Excessive packaging has its roots with the manufacturers of the goods. Why

[ppzhan abstract] The Draft Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging, recently submitted for deliberation at the current session of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, clearly stipulates that from now on, if goods sold by a seller are excessively packaged, the seller may face a fine of up to 100,000 yuan, starting with strict control at the sales end to force manufacturers to stop over-packaging their goods. This policy is good news for the tea packaging market, when "over-packaged" tea cannot be sold, or brings a 100,000 yuan fine

Standardization work in China's printing industry got off to a relatively late start, companies have a weak awareness of standardization and the level of standardization is not high, particularly in the field of screen printing. Competition in the screen printing market therefore urgently needs the implementation of standardization to bring it into order. With the rapid growth of the national economy, China's screen printing industry has been growing at a double-digit rate every year, especially after China's accession to the WTO, when more and more multinational companies entered the competition in the Chinese market, while some Chinese enterprises

Will the new measure keep the rim of paper cups "blank" and save drinkers from swallowing ink? Tomorrow the national standard for paper cups officially takes effect. From this standard, numbered GB/T27590-2011 (hereafter "the national standard"), the reporter noted that the eye-catching provision is that there should be no printed patterns within 15 mm of the cup rim down the cup body or within 10 mm of the cup base up the cup body. This means that the paper cups we use from now on will no longer be colored all over. The national standard also stipulates that paper cups should not have

[ppzhan abstract] On July 23, the 35th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress deliberated on China's first local regulation on commodity packaging reduction — the Several Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging (Draft) (hereinafter referred to as the "Provisions (Draft)") — and widely solicited opinions from the public. The Provisions (Draft) sets out explicit provisions on the scope of responsibilities of each department. The Provisions (Draft) makes clear that the sales link, the terminal end, is to be taken as the regulatory lever

[ppzhan abstract] 1. GB/T4857.14—1999 Packaging — Transport packages — Toppling test method. The revisions to this standard adopt ISO8768:1987, Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages — Toppling test. The standard specifies the main performance requirements for the test equipment used in the "toppling test for transport packages", the test procedures and the content of the test report. This standard can be used to evaluate the impact sustained by transport packages when toppled