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1. Definitions
Packaging is defined as any object made of materials of any kind, designed to contain and protect goods, from raw materials to finished products, to enable their handling and transport from producer to consumer or user, and to ensure their presentation.
More generally, product packaging can be defined as: "everything inside the product that isn't the product itself".
1.1 Categories
Depending on the main roles it will have to play, a packaging can be qualified by the following terms (figure 1 ):
sales packaging or primary packaging ;
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Bibliography
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Regulations
Recueil de textes concernant les matériaux au contact des aliments et denrées destinées à l'alimentation humaine. Fascicule n° 1227, periodically updated. Direction des Journaux officiels.
French Pharmacopoeia. 10th edition, Agence du Médicament.
European Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste. Official Journal of the European Communities, Dec. 31, 1994....
Organizations
Comité de liaison des industries françaises de l'emballage (CLIFE)
Association française de normalisation (AFNOR) http://www.afnor.fr
Conseil national de l'emballage (CNE) http://www.conseil-emballage.org
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