Archives for December 8, 2009

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SPC publishes common green packaging metrics

By Guy Montague-Jones

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) has published a set of metrics and indicators on green packaging to offer companies a common standard for evaluating progress.

Nestle UK rail project will make wagons work harder

By Rod Addy

Nestle UK is close to a breakthrough on a scheme to use rail freight wagons specially designed to fit more food pallets inside them, “dramatically” improving distribution costs over road logistics, reports sister title Food Manufacture.

Special Edition: Cranberries

Regulation: Making claims on cranberry's future

By Shane Starling

For a fruit that has had more science conducted on it than most, it is surprising to some that France remains the only country to have approved a long-standing cranberry health claim.

Scientists determine safe acrylamide levels

By Stephen Daniells

Tolerable intakes of acrylamide should be set at 2.6 micrograms per kilogram of body weight to avoid the cancer risk, says a new toxicology study from the US.