9000 Plymouth Ave North, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55427 1.800.245.5615 www.medallionlabs.com Why Study Shelf Life? The modern food industry has developed and expanded because of its ability to deliver a wide variety of high quality food products to consumers on a nationwide and worldwide basis. This feat has been accomplished by building stability into the products through processing, packaging, ...

The flexible packaging industry has registered a significant growth over the last years, especially due to rising demand from healthcare, automotive, construction, food, beverage, and retail industries. It is essential for production plants regularly assess their ability achieve performance target objectives and, at same time, compare with that of factories industry. By combining qualitative qu...

The article presents the latest solutions for sustainable flexible packaging materials, covering articles published in 2017–2022. Discussed, among others bio-based, biodegradable, and recycled polymers, paper, which are slowly being adopted by industry expected to replace traditional materials from non-renewable sources coming years.

This paper reviews the major influencers that will drive change in meat packaging. A review of the current state of fresh-meat packaging in the US has shown a continued evolution to case ready packaging, with 60% of the packages audited being in the case ready format, versus 49% just two years earlier. Additionally, the market is moving to a higher degree of convenience in the meat case, and re...

INTRODUCTION To systematically review the evidence regarding the effect of standardized packaging on illicit tobacco use. METHODS Data sources were EMBASE, Web of Knowledge, Scopus, PsycInfo, Medline, and the British Library catalogue, from 01/01/1987 to 28/11/2016. Reference lists of included studies were hand searched for additional papers. Search strategies were based on the terms ‘tobacco’,...

The New Economic Policy of 1991 opened up the Indian markets to the world. Indian manufacturers, which once operated in the protected economy, were now open to the competition from organizations world-wide. It became imperative for the organizations to develop a competitive advantage to tide over the crisis. They were quick to evolve with a restructured strategy of neo-manufacturing from simply...

Background: Noise mapping in industry can be useful to assess the risks of harmful noise, or to monitor noise in machine rooms. Using GIS -based software for plot of noise maps in an indoor noisy work environment can be helpful for occupational hygienists to monitor noise pollution. Methods: This study was carried out in noisy packaging unit of a food industry in Ghazvin industrial zone, to ev...