INDIA – The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned the use of plastic containers as primary packaging for drug products.
CHINA – Six senior executives at Shanghai Husi Food have been formally arrested and charged with producing and selling counterfeit products, in the latest action taken by authorities in the expired meat scandal.
INDIA - Cigarette packs sold in India have to carry health warnings covering at least 85% of its printed surface from 1 April 2015.
INDIA – Coca-Cola is abandoning a US$25 million bottling line in India because of “inordinate delay” from authorities in granting approval to draw more groundwater at the facility site.
VIETNAM – The Ministry of Industry and Trade is looking to stick labels on beer products in a bid to stop counterfeiting – a move that has already been implemented for tobacco products sold in Vietnam.
PAKISTAN – A new government regulation now requires infant formula products sold in Pakistan to include a label that encourages breast-feeding.
Packaging Supply Chain news from the Asia Pacific
