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Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Question:
The first legislation that directly affects packaging
Answer:
Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938
Question:
What are the 5 Major Provisions of the Food Additives
Amendment
Answer:
(1) The additive gets defined
(2) The burden of proof gets shifted to the Industry
(3) Delaney Clause
(4) Established GRAS
(5) GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) became established
Question:
Delaney Clause
Answer:
Outlaws carcinogens; not allowed to have things that might cause cancer in foods or
packages
Question:
GRAS
Answer:
Generally Recognized As Safe; If the food is recognized as safe it gets added to a list of
GRAS substances held in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Question:
1966 Fair Package Labeling Act
Answer:
, Amended in 1990 with the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (gives the nutrition facts
label)
Question:
1970 Poison Prevention Act
Answer:
kids were getting into things like furniture polish or cleaning agents
The result was child-resistant packaging
Question:
A tool used by an industry that assesses a product and
package's impact on the environment from the very earliest
stages of raw material acquisition to how it is disposed of
when the consumer is finished using the product and package
is called...
Answer:
LCA
Question:
PLA films or plastics can be made from
Answer:
any renewable resource containing starch
Question:
The best way to design a sustainable package is to make sure
that it will break down or degrade in a landfill when a
consumer discards the package (T/F)
Answer:
False: nothing degrades well in a landfill
Question:
The main reason it is generally felt that the environmental
movement sustainability is here to stay this time and never
stuck permanently before is that it has, as part of its core
Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Question:
The first legislation that directly affects packaging
Answer:
Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938
Question:
What are the 5 Major Provisions of the Food Additives
Amendment
Answer:
(1) The additive gets defined
(2) The burden of proof gets shifted to the Industry
(3) Delaney Clause
(4) Established GRAS
(5) GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) became established
Question:
Delaney Clause
Answer:
Outlaws carcinogens; not allowed to have things that might cause cancer in foods or
packages
Question:
GRAS
Answer:
Generally Recognized As Safe; If the food is recognized as safe it gets added to a list of
GRAS substances held in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Question:
1966 Fair Package Labeling Act
Answer:
, Amended in 1990 with the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (gives the nutrition facts
label)
Question:
1970 Poison Prevention Act
Answer:
kids were getting into things like furniture polish or cleaning agents
The result was child-resistant packaging
Question:
A tool used by an industry that assesses a product and
package's impact on the environment from the very earliest
stages of raw material acquisition to how it is disposed of
when the consumer is finished using the product and package
is called...
Answer:
LCA
Question:
PLA films or plastics can be made from
Answer:
any renewable resource containing starch
Question:
The best way to design a sustainable package is to make sure
that it will break down or degrade in a landfill when a
consumer discards the package (T/F)
Answer:
False: nothing degrades well in a landfill
Question:
The main reason it is generally felt that the environmental
movement sustainability is here to stay this time and never
stuck permanently before is that it has, as part of its core
