Packaura
/ September 2, 2026
Slapping a leaf icon and the words “carbon neutral” on a box used to be enough to win over eco-conscious shoppers. Not anymore. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are now treating unverified carbon claims as deceptive advertising, and in the EU, offset-based product
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Packaura
/ August 26, 2026
If your packaging is labeled compostable in the U.S., regulators, retailers, and buyers increasingly expect proof, not just a marketing claim. ASTM D6400 is the technical standard behind that proof, and third-party certification, most commonly through the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), is how you demonstrate
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Packaura
/ August 25, 2026
If you sell essential oils, the biggest legal risk usually isn’t your ingredient list — it’s your marketing copy. The FDA doesn’t regulate essential oils as a category; it regulates them based on what your label, website, and sales reps say they do. Cross the
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Packaura
/ August 21, 2026
If you’ve seen “GS1 Sunrise 2027” mentioned by a retailer partner or packaging vendor and aren’t sure what it actually requires you to do, you’re not alone. It sounds like a hard deadline, but it’s really a market-readiness target: by the end of 2027, GS1
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Packaura
/ August 19, 2026
Energy drink brands face a labeling puzzle the FDA never fully spelled out in one place: is your product a beverage or a dietary supplement, and does that choice change what has to be on the can? Get it wrong and you risk a warning
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Packaura
/ August 16, 2026
Maine made history in 2021 as the first U.S. state to pass an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging. But headlines about Oregon’s and Colorado’s programs going live have left a lot of brands assuming Maine’s is right behind them — it isn’t. Implementation
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Packaura
/ August 16, 2026
If you manufacture, import, or sell packaging in the EU, REACH isn’t optional paperwork — it’s a chemical restriction regime that can hold up a shipment at customs or trigger a recall if you get it wrong. The rules cover everything from printed cardboard to
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Packaura
/ August 15, 2026
A box that looks sturdy on a shelf can still fail on its way to a customer’s door — crushed in a stack, punctured on a conveyor belt, or rattled loose by a delivery van driving over potholes. ASTM D4169 is the standard packaging engineers
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Packaura
/ August 14, 2026
Washington became the seventh U.S. state to pass a packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) law when Governor Bob Ferguson signed SB 5284, the Recycling Reform Act, on May 17, 2025. If your brand sells packaged consumer products into Washington, the law creates a new set
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Packaura
/ August 13, 2026
As of January 1, 2026, Ontario’s Blue Box program is fully funded and operated by the producers who supply packaging, paper products, and packaging-like products to Ontario consumers. Municipalities no longer run curbside recycling collection contracts or foot the bill, and the legacy Stewardship Ontario
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Packaura
/ August 9, 2026
If your product packaging contains a cleaning agent, adhesive, coating, solvent, or any substance classified as hazardous, it likely needs a GHS-compliant label before it can legally ship in the US. Getting this wrong doesn’t just risk an OSHA citation — it can hold up
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Packaura
/ August 7, 2026
The EU Medical Device Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/745, or MDR) sets out exactly what has to appear on a device’s label and packaging before it can carry a CE mark and go on sale in the European Union. The rules live mainly in Annex I,
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Packaura
/ August 6, 2026
If you sell packaged products in the U.S., you’ve probably run into a compliance form asking you to certify that your packaging is free of “CONEG metals.” That requirement traces back to a single piece of model legislation from 1989 that still shapes packaging decisions
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Packaura
/ August 5, 2026
If you pack, process, or ship foods on the FDA’s high-risk list, FSMA Section 204 is going to reshape how your labels, cartons, and cases are printed — even though the rule itself never mentions the word ‘label.’ The requirement is about recordkeeping, but in
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Packaura
/ August 1, 2026
Aerosol cans sit at the intersection of two federal regulatory regimes at once: the Department of Transportation (DOT), which governs how they move, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which governs how they’re labeled and sold. Brands launching an aerosol product — deodorant, spray
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Packaura
/ July 29, 2026
If you sell a toy, game, or kids’ product with small pieces, you’ve probably seen the yellow-bordered “WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD” label on competitors’ packaging and wondered whether you need one too. Getting this wrong in either direction is a problem: skip a required label and
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Packaura
/ July 29, 2026
If you sell CBD gummies in Texas and hemp beverages in New York, you don’t get to print one label and ship it everywhere. Federal law sets a floor for what a hemp or CBD label must say, but each state layers on its own
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Packaura
/ July 27, 2026
A rejected pallet or a chargeback notice is usually the first time a supplier learns their packaging wasn’t actually “retail ready.” Big-box retailers like Walmart, Target, Amazon, Costco, and Kroger score every inbound shipment against packaging, labeling, and shipping standards long before a product ever
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Packaura
/ July 25, 2026
If you sell or ship vapor products, “PACT Act compliance” usually gets used as a catch-all for packaging rules — but the child-resistant packaging requirement, the nicotine addiction warning, and the shipping label statement actually come from three different federal authorities, each with its own
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Packaura
/ July 21, 2026
If you sell prepacked food anywhere in the EU, your packaging has to satisfy Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers — usually shortened to the FIC Regulation, or just “1169.” It’s the single rulebook that replaced a patchwork of
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