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Your FDA Checklist for Personal Care and Beauty Product Packaging Requirements

All personal care and beauty products manufactured in the US or imported are monitored and regulated by the FDA. The ...
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Digital vs. Flexography: What is the right printing process for your labels?

“I don’t care if my labels come out of a cereal box, as long as they look as expected, perform ...
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Supply Chain Challenges

Nearly every aspect of our lives has been affected by one or more supply chain issues recently. Whether it is ...
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Understanding the Total Applied Cost of Label Procurement

The traditional approach to purchasing product labels is to obtain price quotations from an approved vendor list, and then select ...
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Recycling: It’s not automatic.

Even though a package is labeled as "recyclable," it doesn't mean you can just toss it and forget it. You’re ...
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Touchy Packaging

No, we’re not talking about overly sensitive packaging that you need to be mindful of, and careful about what you ...
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Does your product suffer from Category Camouflage?

You may have the best product in the world, and a marketing strategy that generates a ton of interest, but ...
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Flexible Packaging is Sustainable!

We said it, and it’s true. For specific applications, flexible packaging beats alternative packaging for sustainability hands down. Now you ...
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Five Hot Trends in Labels & Packaging

It’s summer. it’s hot. So what better time to catch up on what’s hot in labels and packaging? Normally these ...
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Sustainability Design Guide: The Road to Greener Packaging

We have all been there: When taking on a project or goal, we often have an idea of what we ...
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Labels that Last

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Retirement is indeed a wonderful thing.  Although I’m not quite 100% retired, as I’m still consulting up a storm for the AWT mothership a solid…

What is ‘Legible’?

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Once again HealthPack, this year in Denver, was a fine way to augment your medical device packaging knowledge, both by listening to the presentations and by…

Die Stuff

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A couple years ago I wrote a blog post on dies, technical and informative but deadly boring. The topic does need some expansion, especially with…

Label Haiku

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The one certain thing about developing new labels for the medical device market is that you know for before you begin that you are not…

Hey, how much is that label?

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The continuing trend of corporations to focus almost exclusively on shareholder value, rather than stakeholder value (eg customers, suppliers, employees, etc.), has made the cost…

Label Mania at HealthPack

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I thought it would be good to get a blog post out before the big event starts in Louisville tomorrow. Packing? Heck, I get that…

Die, die, or…….DIE!

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Once again the English language proves to be a baffling tongue. Depending on context the word die can either mean the singular of dice, the…