EU Eco Label Certifications Reaches Nearly 100,000 Products
The European Commission’s latest statistics, released on Thursday, reveal continued growth in the number of products and services awarded the EU Ecolabel. This steady increase is accelerating, with nearly 100,000 certified goods and services now available—10,000 more than at the same time last year. Each of these products meets strict environmental standards throughout their lifecycle, […]
The Global Chemical Warehouse and Storage Market Report 2024
The global chemical warehouse and storage market is a crucial segment within the chemical industry, serving as the backbone for safe handling, storage, and distribution of various chemicals. The industry has witnessed steady growth due to increasing industrial activities, stricter regulations on chemical safety, and rising demand from end-use sectors such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and […]
The Windsor Framework: Are your Medicine Labels up to date from Jan 2025?
The Windsor Framework is an agreement reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union in February 2023 to address challenges arising from the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The Protocol was part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, designed to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic […]
Country of Origin Labels in Supermarkets is Failing, Here’s Why
Consumers are increasingly aware of the environmental and ethical profile of their purchases. Amid the demand for ‘greener’ products, there is also a growing interest in purchases perceived as more local. A survey by GlobalData last summer showed 80% of consumers would pay up to 5% more for a locally sourced product and 33% would […]
The Top 5 Seaweed Packaging Companies of 2024
If you need more proof that companies and consumers are concerned about the environment, consider the push for seaweed packing. Making plastic waste disappear is a great goal; of the billions of metric tons of plastic produced each year, National Geographic says 91% isn’t recycled. Finding an alternative to all this waste is desirable for […]
New EU Label Changes for Fertiliser Labels
In the EU, digital labelling is already used for some products containing chemicals, for instance batteries, and rules for digital labelling are under consideration for other products, like detergents, cosmetics and chemicals. The simplification of labelling obligations is expected to reduce annual costs by, on average, €57 000 for a large company and €4 500 […]
QR Codes on Labels: The Future of Smart Digital Product Labelling
We keep seeing QR Codes popping up all over the place – in our favourite magazines, on storefront windows, boarding passes, and real estate signs… we can’t escape them! You don’t even need some fancy device to scan them. These days, most of us can just download a free barcode app onto our smartphones, iPads, […]
Ultimate Guide 2023: Amazon multi-lingual labels for PAN EU sales
If you have only offered your goods on Amazon.de up to now and only shipped them within Germany, you only had to adhere to the known German requirements regarding labelling, which also includes the manufacturer’s name / distributor in the European Economic Area (EEA), including the legal form supplement, as well as the exact contact […]
UK Salad Shortage and fragile food industry in 2023
On a simplistic level the story of the ongoing shortage of salad items in UK supermarkets is an easy one to tell: unseasonable weather in southern Spain and Morocco has impacted the crop, leading to a lack of imports from key supplier countries. But underneath lies a plethora of issues that go far beyond the […]
Electronic Labelling – How E-labels Can Solve Skyrocketing Global Paper Waste
Electronic labelling could be good news for consumers and the planet. It is important that buyers of electronic goods understand the products they have purchased and are confident in the safety of their new equipment. But with hundreds of millions of items sold across the EU each year, physically providing user manuals and other information […]
Pork Farming 2023 Report: How Pig Farming Can Become More Sustainable
A study was conducted at Cambridge University on identifying ways of producing pigs more sustainably, with an emphasis on trade-offs and co-benefits in land and antimicrobial use. The following are the highlights of that study. The swine industry is set to provide high-quality protein to feed the world’s increasing population. To meet this goal, the […]
Country of Origin Labels: What are the Rules in the UK from September 2022?
From 1 Jan 2021 food produced in GB and sold in the EU must not be labelled as ‘EU origin’. Food produced and sold in NI can continue to use ‘origin EU’. Food produced and sold in GB can continue to be labelled with ‘EU origin’ until 30 September, 2022. After this date relevant food […]
Controversial EU Retained Law Bill “Bonfire” Will Affect Chocolate, Food and Environmental Labelling
Key EU legislation relating to a raft of economic areas including laws relating to the standardised marketing and labelling of chocolate product ranges is potentially set to be axed under UK government plans. Westminster MPs voted through the first stage of the controversial EU retained law Bill – which is seeking to remove what it […]
World Braille Day! Why Braille Labels Should be Commonplace
In packaging and labelling, the focus is often on functionality and the appearance of the product. However, the World Health Organization estimates that there are 45 million people who are either fully blind or visually impaired – meaning millions of people will experience products through touch, not through sight. While some countries have mandated braille […]
Recycling Shouldn’t Create More Toxins
The US has a serious plastic problem. Over the summer it emerged that the recycling rate of the ubiquitous material had sunk to less than 6 per cent. For context, the European Union together with Norway, Switzerland and the UK recycled on average 37 per cent of the plastic waste they generated in 2020. The […]
New EU Labelling Requirements for Smart Phones from 2023
The European Commission, part of the European Union, has made two new proposals that are designed to establish new energy design and ecosmart labelling for tablets and smart phones. These proposals were introduced at the end of August 2022 and they accepted public feedback about the labelling proposals until the 28th of September. These new […]
Carnage As Household Names Scramble to Rebrand Following Queen’s Passing
News of the death of Queen Elizabeth II shocked the world on September 8, 2022. Of course, the death of a monarch sets about a chain of historic events, which the UK hasn’t experienced on a wide scale for decades. While the nation was going through its period of mourning and the rest of the […]
Is the Much Needed EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy About to be Scraped?
In May 2020, the European Commission presented the Farm-to-Fork Strategy, the European Union’s flagship initiative for a more sustainable, healthy and fair food system. The strategy combines almost 30 regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives to enable sustainable food production, promote sustainable food consumption, stimulate sustainable food processing and food service practices, and reduce food loss and […]