The global label industry looking up for the future
Posted on November 23rd, 2009
Here are some interesting facts about the label industry in North America.
- NA label market is projected to increase to 11 billion dollars by 2013 (bigger than Western Europe and Japan)
- The food market is the biggest contributor to label market, but this expects to change hands to the pharmaceutical market by 2013.
- The US is the biggest producer and consumer of labels.
- Canada consumed 775 million square meters of labels in 2008.
Interestingly enough the reason that the pharmaceutical will end up being the largest player in the label industry is due to all the new and changing regulations that are expected to take effect in the coming years requiring more detailed and extensive material be placed on these labels.
With the changes will also come the need for proper label inspection and packaging inspection tools. Automated inspection solutions will be come more and more important in quality control, regulatory and design departments.
There is more information available in a great article called North America: The World’s Label Powerhouse in the Sept. issue of Flexography Magazine.
Tags: FDA, pharmacetuical quality control, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical labeling, quality control
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Packaging quality control issue or just a hoax?
Posted on October 23rd, 2009
After taking a sip of a Diet Pepsi a customer found something funny in the can… After dumping out the can, Mr. Denigris said it looked like “pink linguini followed by black stuff.” The FDA was called in to pick up the “foreign matter”, they confirmed it was in fact remnants of a toad.
Confident in their quality control process, Pepsi denied that it could have ever entered the can during the manufacturing process. The FDA later conducted an inspection of the manufacturing facility and said there was no cause for concern.
Denigris also said that after they gave the specimen to the FDA, Pepsi has neglected to call them or even issue an apology.
Could this have all been a hoax by Denigris or does Pepsi really have a bigger quality control issue on their hands?
Tags: packaging, quality control
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Manual Inspection or Automated Label Inspection…That is the question.
Posted on September 23rd, 2009
So some of you might be reading about automated proofreading solutions or automated inspection solutions for the first time and wondering, what the heck is the difference and does it really work? Well, let me just outline a few of the differences between the two here for you:
Manual proofreading:
- lots of proofreaders
- lots of time
- high potential for errors
- higher costs
Automated Proofreading:
- 100% accuracy
- complete confidence
- perfect quality control
- faster turnarounds
- total process control
Not convinced? Read the Global Vision whitepaper; “How to Prevent Packaging Errors on Copy & Artwork”, its sure to change your mind…
Tags: automated proofreading, proofreading, quality control
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