Our food model is in clear transformation, providing answers to the global challenges we face, and for that reason it’s very important to focalize the food safety in the strategies. Food safety is essential for consumer protection and their confidence...
The Global Food Safety Initiative (international organism that involves the principal food safety standards, like BRC, IFS, FSSC) promotes the concept of product safety culture in food companies for years (food processors, packaging manufacturers and related) in order to observe...
Currently there is a tendency to “demonize” the use of plastics as containers, especially those for single use. It is not strange to see in the media images of the clearly negative environmental effect of this material. The truth is...
Cheap is expensive. And, when we talk about “cheap” and “expensive”, we not only refer to an economic investment, but also to the importance of knowing how to use resources and entrust them to expert professionals. Some companies, whether due...
Ecological labels or eco-labels are a form of labelling that refers to the environmental performance of a product and is usually represented by symbols. The main objective of these tools is to ensure truthful and reliable environmental communication, avoiding deception...
On 20th June 2019, Ecoembes Administration Council approved the 25% increase average of Green Dot fees as of 1st January 2020. It involves that in the next statement presentation, before 28th February 2020, all business with packaging in market will pay 25%...
PLASTIC SENSE FOUNDATION aims to provide transparency and visibility to the work carried out by companies in the value chain of the PET food tray in terms of circular economy. Its principal objective is promoting the use and recycling of...
In the “Food contact materials. Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 and (EC) 2023/2006” post these regulations were covered in detail, in other words, was explained the header of the regulatory frame of food contact materials. In this post we will expose the...
In other posts, there are described several practical modes for palletizing optimization: CAPE PACK and IPS, but, how can you report what is going on during transport? Are we sure that the cold chain is maintained from the origin until...
“A outstanding issue in the consumer goods production industries is the packaging optimization, including its palletization and subsequent logistics plan”. We resumed the logistics optimization articles serie started with the presentation of an essential tool: CAPE PACK. Another software for...
An outstanding issue for the consumer goods industries is the packaging optimization, including its palletization and posterior logistic planification. It is essential to know the logistic saving, during its storage and distribution, which is given when analyzing the packaging, its...
Today, 12th June 2019, the Directive which restricts the use of certain plastic products has been published. The long-awaited publication is called DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/904, on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. What have...
Food Defence is an important element in protecting your business and consumers from internal and external threats. It encompasses a range of potential threats from relatively common tamper hoaxes to less probable terrorist attacks. Often supply chain or manufacturing threats...
Analise the pastics inconvenients due to a mismanagement and proposals on sustainability to achieve a circular economy
As you will all have already read, European Union was elaborate a commented legislation project: as of 2021, begins the ban of single-use plastics, such as cotton swabs, cutlery, plates, straws, drink stirrers and plastic balloon sticks. What does the...
