GMO Labeling Law to Stress Packaging Departments

by Rob Kaszubowski: Packaging Engineering Manager, Chainalytics

 In case you had missed it, the latest verdict in the Vermont genetically modified organisms (GMO) labeling saga is in: Food manufacturers have until July 1^st to update their package labeling to include GMO information.

Before and After: Food manufacturers across the country will be required to update their package labeling to communicate if their products use genetically modified organisms

As a recap: Back in 2014, Vermont initiated a law to require all foods containing GMOs to be clearly labeled on all food packaging.

Congress had established a committee to block the labeling change. However, the Senate failed to advance a bill that would ban states from requiring food packaging to disclose the presence of GMOs. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar helped lead efforts to stomp this one down, likely thinking of the holistic impact this change would have on Minnesota-based food producers General Mills, Land O’Lakes and Hormel. This puts the GMO law back in motion and will go into effect in July 2016—in barely more than two months!

Click here to read more at Packaging Digest on how this new labeling requirement will stress packaging engineering departments.

==============================================================

Rob Kaszubowski is the Engineering Manager at Chainalytics, where he is focused on reducing product damage and implementing packaging cost savings while leading a team of packaging consultants in Design for Distribution initiatives.

Connect with Rob on LinkedIn and on Twitter @KazPack1

Meet the Packaging Matters Team!

Whether you bump into us from time to time through web searches or if you are a loyal email or RSS subscriber, we appreciate you reading the Packaging Matters blog. Our Certified Packaging Professionals are unmatched in expertise and know testing protocols like the back of their hands. We enjoy what we do and hope you enjoy reading about it.

We have a question for you, though: Have you ever wondered who the authors are behind all these packaging-inspired blog articles? If so, check out this quick "Who We Are" video to learn more about Chainalytics' Packaging Optimization Practice.

And now that you know “we don’t make the box, but we make the box better,” we hope that you’ll continue visiting Packaging Matters and share it with your colleagues.

If you have any packaging-related questions, be sure to leave a comment below, and we'll do our best to answer them directly or in a future blog post. Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter and connect with us on LinkedIn.

Chainalytics Acquires Packaging Solutions Business From Adalis

Chainalytics to Provide Packaging Consulting and Engineering Services in New Minnesota-based Practice

Atlanta, GA – July 19, 2011 – Chainalytics LLC, a leading supply chain research, analytics and consulting firm focused on enabling fact-based supply chain decisions, announced today its acquisition of the packaging engineering and supply chain solutions consulting business from Adalis Corporation. Adalis is a global packaging solutions provider that offers package reinforcement and opening technologies to customers around the world and is a subsidiary of H.B. Fuller Company. The Adalis packaging engineering and consulting team, located in Minnesota, will form a new practice within Chainalytics that will focus on optimizing supply chain packaging solutions. Tom Blanck will lead Chainalytics’ packaging optimization practice as principal.

The Adalis packaging consulting team is a group of certified packaging engineers with significant packaging expertise and a proven track record across multiple industries, including food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, high tech and retail, in which Chainalytics has a strong existing presence, as well as several target markets like medical and industrial. The combination of the team’s technical capability with its cost-minimizing, environmentally-conscious approach strategically expands the scope of supply chain optimization services offered by Chainalytics.

“Packaging design can have a significant impact on overall supply chain performance and sustainability,” states Mike Kilgore, President and CEO, Chainalytics. “Our new packaging optimization practice will provide deep expertise, which, when combined with our robust knowledge of transportation and supply chain tradeoffs, will deliver exceptional value to our existing and future clients.”

Adalis acquired the Packaging Solutions Group in 2004 and has helped clients save millions of dollars by improving packaging and logistics design. The team has developed an approach and proven methodology to solve rigorous packaging and transportation challenges, including those related to high-value and sensitive products.

“Our team is truly excited to join forces with Chainalytics’ supply chain and transportation professionals,” says Tom Blanck. “Our value propositions are naturally aligned, and our clients will benefit from expertise and experience that uniquely blends operations, packaging and logistics. Supply chain stakeholders will be able to leverage packaging further upstream to influence the entire distribution system.”

Chainalytics’ packaging optimization services will help companies balance the performance of physical supply chain packaging activities – such as transportation load factors and product protection – against the impact of packaging on marketing and sales objectives. Services will include:

• Packaging Design and Development to improve the design or material use for cost reduction or improved packaging performance;
• Packaging Optimization to increase shipping densities of containers and improve cube utilization for decreased logistics cost; and
• Sustainable Packaging Improvement to leveraging packaging materials and processes to reduce emissions and improve carbon footprint.

About Chainalytics
Chainalytics is a professional services firm that enhances competitive advantage and shareholder value through optimized supply chain strategies. Using a fact-based decision making approach, Chainalytics accelerates and improves supply chain performance. Chainalytics offers both project-based and managed services using a unique combination of domain expertise, resilient methodologies, and exclusive research and content — all supported by the world’s most advanced decision sciences tools and techniques. Chainalytics targets enterprises with a high degree of complexity created by their unique combination of scale, variability, and geography. With locations in North America and Asia, Chainalytics serves companies globally in a borderless fashion. www.Chainalytics.com

Anatomy of the Packaging-Matters Blog

by Rich Lindgren, CPP - Chainalytics

This post is to help all readers optimize their time spent on the Packaging-Matters Blog. This entry breaks down the different functions and options you have when visiting our blog.


Back to Main Page - anytime you want you can click on Title of Blog; will get you back home no matter what area you are in blog or comments.

Subscribe to Blog - enter your email here and you will get our new posts delivered to your inbox as soon as they are published.

Category Labels- We assign a category to every post, that way you can browse categories to find info quickly. Foe example, click on Sustainability Scene to read all the entries about greener packaging movements and other sustainable packaging stories.

Blog Archive - Browse by previous months, go back to April 2009 and see the humble beginnings of our blog

Quicksearch - In the upper left corner of screen, there is a search box, great way to look up a topic or word and see all the posts that contain that info.

BlogRoll Links - This is a listing of other sites that we enjoying reading and provide good information. info that we like, check them out at your leisure

RSS Subscription - These are links for RSS (Real Simple Syndication) basically you can sign up using these links and content will be pushed to your Feed Reader, there are many and MyYahoo and MyMSN have them built in, if you are interested. We can help you if you get stuck. Just another way to be on the cutting edge of getting information.

- if you see this symbol, it is a link to help you get RSS feeds setup through FeedBurner, click here and its falling down easy to get recent entries of the blog to show up on your MyYahoo or MyMSN home pages


Packaging Business News Feed: Helps you stay tuned to packaging news at a glance, updated constantly through out the day.

Hope you find this helpful and just write a comment if you have any questions.

What is Packaging Matters?

by Packaging-Matters' Team

Packaging-Matters' Blog is a compilation of articles, excerpts and opinion pieces about general packaging topics, written by packaging experts.

• Topics will likely cover but not be limited to:
• Cool Packaging Designs
• Sustainable Packaging Issues
• Marketing Trends
• Packaging & Supply Chain interactions
• Transport packaging
• Wrap Rage
• Packaging Education
• Packaging Guidelines
• Packaging Humor
• Value Engineering
• Dimensional Weight
• Technical packaging questions
• Much more....

Come back often; ask questions, we are dedicated to make this a great packaging resource!