Packaging

DUNCAN, S.C -- The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has awarded the Cryovac Food Packaging Division of Sealed Air Corporation, based here, a handful of its 2006 Top Packaging Awards.

BOSTON -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) here last week introduced a new certification program that will reward stores with regulatory relief if they voluntarily develop sustainable programs for reusing organics and other wastes, rather than discarding them.

Spring House, Pa. -- AgroFresh based here, maker of the SmartFresh Quality System, has received two prestigious French industry awards for innovation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The American Meat Institute Foundation held a teleconference briefing yesterday to try to blunt further controversy surrounding modified atmosphere packaging technology that uses carbon monoxide to help maintain meat's natural red color.

LANDOVER, Md. -- Giant Food, LLC said late last week that would sell its dairy operation and processing plant here to the Reston, Va.-based Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative for an undisclosed sum. The cooperative, which has provided all of the facility's raw milk for over 30 years, will buy the plant and 11 surrounding acres on March 25.

LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- In the sixth apparent instance of metal objects discovered in foods bought in local supermarkets here, a man told police that he found a pellet resembling buckshot in ground beef from Lexington, Ky. Laura's Lean Beef, which he said he had bought at a local Giant Food store.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Herb Thyme Farms, Inc. here has acquired the business operations of McCormick Fresh Herbs, LLC., in a deal that will integrate the fresh herb farms, facilities, employees and management team of McCormick Fresh Herbs into Herb Thyme Farms.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) here will begin mailing posters and brochures to retailers and others this month explaining how to increase revenue and take advantage of the new recyclability standard for corrugated shipping containers.