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   Packaging and Food Safety 
  Details : Packaging is an essential medium for preserving food quality, minimising food wastage and reducing preservatives used in food. The packaging serves the important function of containing the food, protecting against chemical and physical damage whilst providing information essential to consumers and marketers.    
  Dated : 3-Apr-2009
   The Case for Packaging 
  Details : Superior packaging is about changing our habits and our mindset so that we think in a different hierarchy, with the 4 R’s nearer the top of the list. No matter what the solutions, they are likely to be part of a long-term incremental process that will employ a blend of technologies, applied in context, with a measure of common sense.    
  Dated : 3-Apr-2009
   Packaging is the Answer to World Hunger 
  Details : The World Packaging Organisation (WPO) General Secretary Carl Olsmats and the International Packaging Press Organisation (IPPO - www.ippopress.com) President Bo Wallteg, have published a joint position paper that highlights the key contribution of packaging to sustainability and the fight against hunger in the world. WPO and IPPO are promoting good packaging and logistics systems as "the answer to world hunger". Carl Olsmats and Bo Wallteg said the increased demand for food did not necessarily require increased production, but better packaging usage to ensure less food is wasted.
    
  Dated : 7-Mar-2009
   Education and Training 
  Details : WPO believes that education is a life-time companion to mankind and society. As its humble contribution to the global community, WPO through its oriented training and education support will help in creating employment opportunity, adding value, and reducing waste of precious product.
    
  Dated : 18-Sep-2008
   Market Trends and Developments 
  Details : There are a number of market developments with major implications for the packaging industry. Designs have to improve continuously to meet the changing market and sustainability needs. Emerging markets, with a growing middle class, adopting a consumption life style, implies business opportunities.    
  Dated : 17-Apr-2008
   Sustainable Packaging 
  Details : Society demands, without really knowing it, that Packaging Professionals ‘get it right.’ Efficient and effective use of resources in Packaging is essential to Society’s aim to reach Sustainability. The World Packaging Organization is committed to continuing to bring together many of the great minds within the Packaging Community as we work toward our goal of “Better Quality Of Life Through Better Packaging For More People”.    
  Dated : 17-Apr-2008
   Packaging Technology 
  Details : The advancement or improvement of other packaging technologies is now under way to respond to the three streams of environmental conservation, considering seniors and disabled people, and food safety and reassurance. In particular, further improvement has been made in the technologies of the existing aseptic fill system, foreign-matter-detection, soft-X-ray inspection, marking, in-mold labels, in-line blow fill, shrink labels, and blow-off.    
  Dated : 17-Apr-2008
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