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News Release from: Sun Chemical Europe | Subject: Low-migration packaging printing guide
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 April 2007
Sun Provides Low-Migration Pack Printing
Guide
A best practice guide for low-migration packaging printing with UV curing or conventional offset inks has been launched by Sun Chemical.
The guide has been developed in conjunction with brand owners, printers and agencies More than 2,000 copies of the 16-page guide in English have been issued globally to printers, brand owners and consumers to meet growing demands for more knowledge in the face of increasing concerns and legislation on migration from packaging said Sun
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 23 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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A new edition is available now in French and other editions for furtherlanguages are planned for the future.
The guide includes a glossary of terms and frequently asked questions, the reasoning behind why low migration inks, coatings and consumables are used, pre-press and package design, production of low migration packaging, storage and legislation.
The guide has been sent to national and international agencies for review and comment, added Sun.
The company believes that the guide should be of interest to all parts of the graphic chain from package designers and pre-press operations, printers and converters, to print buyers, brand owners, retailers and consumer associations.
Co-ordinator and report author, John Adkin, Sun Chemical's European sheetfed product director, said: "There are more demands to minimise the risk of migration from packaging components in to the packaged food, drink, pharmaceutical, medical, tobacco or other sensitive products.
Reducing the risk of migration reduces the risk of any change in the nature, quality, organoleptic property, colour, shelf-life, or other important property of the packed product." Felipe Mellado, Sun Chemical Europe's corporate vice-president of marketing, said: "A best practice guide like this is no substitute for up-to-date information from the suppliers of equipment and consumables that are used in production, or used in the printed packaging sourced from converters.
Our aim has been to help identify areas that warrant attention when seeking the best way to achieve a reduced risk of migration from printed packaging.".
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