Clamshell Blog

In real life there are many aspects to avoid the harmful effects of plasticizer, but because people misuse of plastic packaging, and indirectly should not eat the stomach of the toxic substances into the body to eat. The public should learn a lesson from a variety of improper use of the method, to correct as soon as possible.

“Thin plastic bags donut” — current heavy use of transparent market-like, low-cost thin film plastic bags, and more for the PVC (polyvinyl chloride) material. Just blow out the donut and the temperature about 90 ℃, and this PVC plastic bags at 80 ℃ high temperature melt solution will be met, the release of toxic and harmful substances such as plasticizers.

“Preservation of film equipment malatang” — that many shopkeepers in the dishes containing the guests malatang Lay a layer of “plastic film preservation” is in charge of the guests health, thinking that to avoid the spread of bacteria. As everyone knows, and preservation of films produced by heat, toxic substances, “but it is likely a result of dirty dishes eat 100 times more harmful bacteria.”

“Where the plastic foam lunch boxes are put in the microwave” — not all of the plastic foam lunch boxes are suitable for high-temperature heating in the microwave. Many materials of plastic foam lunch boxes generally heating food in the process, because the heat penetrated into food oil, and then melted, producing harmful substances. Such as foam lunch boxes, signs of fusion have occurred after heating, food must not eat.

“Colored plastic bags directly mounted cooked” — with a plastic bag of cooked food, snacks and other food for immediate consumption, better not to use colored plastic bags. There are two reasons: First, the permeability for plastic pigment dyeing and more volatile, easily met oil to heat leakage; If it is an organic dye, which will contain aromatics. Second, many colored plastic bags are made from recycled plastic, recycled plastic impurities as more manufacturers have to add the paint, to cover up.

MVNO adds touch-screen music device to its growing range of high-end handsets

It wasn’t that long ago that Virgin Media’s portfolio of handsets could have been described at best as being mid-tier. However, with the capture of a number of highly-equipped handsets the mobile virtual network operator is becoming more and more of an attractive proposition. The Nokia X6 is their latest prize asset. Boasting an impressive 3.2-inch touch-screen, the X6 also has a colossal 16GB of internal memory, which equates to about 7,000 songs. There’s also a five-megapixel camera, free sat nav with OVI Maps and a host of shortcuts to all your favourite social networks.

Available on both 12 and 18 month contracts, the longer of the two will mean you receive the phone for free. Though Virgin Media’s offering doesn’t include Nokia’s unlimited music service, ‘Comes With Music’, customers will be able to have unlimited access to the internet from as little as 30p a day, while for the first three months you will also be insured for free.

Other handsets that Virgin Media are currently offering include the HTC HD2, BlackBerry Curve 8520 and most recently LG’s Google Android-enabled InTouch Max GW620.

Consumers across categories express frustration with the difficulty of opening clamshell packages, and Victorinox Swiss Army Inc. believes it has come up with one solution in redesigning the packages for its Original Swiss Army Knife.
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The company has replaced its clamshell packaging with sustainable, paperboard blister packaging. The new packages make use of MeadWestvaco’s Natralock®, a primarily paperboard design that uses 60% less plastic on average than petroleum-based polyvinyl chloride clamshells and 65% less energy in production.

“As a brand that just celebrated 125 years of iconic design and innovation, as well as a long heritage of environmental responsibility, we are proud to incorporate more sustainable packaging into our product line with Natralock,” says Rick Taggart, Victorinox Swiss Army President. “It has resulted in a better-designed, more responsible and consumer-friendly package that we believe will amplify the experience with the Victorinox Swiss Army brand.”

The new packages are high-strength and tear-resistant, and are made from sustainably sourced paperboard with a clear plastic APET or rPET bubble.

LG Lollipop GD580 is a stylish clamshell phone, which has an external hidden OLED display, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3G connectivity, 8GB expandable memory, GPRS/EDGE, Stereo FM and so on. This handset was released on January 2010 and it comes in three exciting colors – Blue, Pink and Black.

The guys at Mobile 01 shared some amazing pics of this device. Check out all the exclusive hands-on pics of LG Lollipop below.

Of the 20th century the development of synthetic resin material and industrialization, made of plastic packaging material is given an unprecedented development, the same time, plastic food packaging materials has become the most important packaging material.
Plastic food packaging has the following characteristics:
1. Applied very widely, from fresh food to which means that the cooked food, from cereals to meat, from a single package to transport packaging, from solid food to liquid food, covering the entire food production, processing and sales chain, has become a food part of industry itself.
2. Packaged in various forms, with tray type, container type, tube type, bag type, single-layer plastic film, multilayer film class and so on.
3. Use of plastic packaging when conditions vary, there is cold, but also microwave heating, high temperature cooking, etc..
4. Direct contact with food within the packaging as the main packaging, and packing the contents has a very diverse species composition.
5. Packaging plastic varieties, products of chemical composition is extremely complex.
The face of such deep integration with the food industry plastic packaging, its potential health and safety risks can not be ignored, is the current food safety control system we are an important part.
The following plastic packaging materials to major potential security risk to do a brief analysis:
The first type of plastic container packaging. Common plastic containers for food packaging mainly polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester, etc., packing container security risk is mainly of plastic processing additives, such as plasticizers, antioxidants, functional additives, such as anti-static agent and coloring agents. These processing aids in the migration to the food, plastic production in the residual monomer and catalyst to move food, plastics processing, thermal decomposition, the product of the aging of the migration to food. These migratory movements of food safety hazards.
The second type is single-layer plastic film-like material. Common single plastic food packaging film is polyethylene, polypropylene, cellophane, the security risk is similar to packaging containers.
The third type of plastic composite packaging materials. As the colorful composite packaging materials and various forms of functional and has become the main form of packaging food packaging. The composite materials are widely used in packaging materials, process complexity, the potential safety problems are most difficult to control the most.
Four problems:
First, the plastic material itself residual monomers, additives and processing a variety of low molecular weight substances produced migration.
Second, bring the solvent printing plastic residues, especially ketones, benzene solvent, ink and various additives in heavy metal.
Third, the composite adhesive, AC agent into the solvent residue, especially polyurethane adhesives Tour divorce NCO content and aromatic isocyanate polyurethane adhesives in the aromatic esters of isocyanate reacting with water, the aromatic primary amine (PAA) problem . Water or alcohol-soluble polyurethane production of dispersing agent, blocking agent, protective agent problem.
Fourth, the bag, squeezing complex processes smoothness powder.
These packaging materials in contact with food during the great migration to food in food safety.
In addition to the packaging material itself and the processing of security risks arising from products in the transportation, storage, use also may be secondary pollution, some food manufacturers and non-food packaging materials generated by the management of mixed-production also brings the corresponding holes risk.
At present our country’s plastic packaging for food did not achieve effective control, resulting in a significant security risk.
Therefore, we must be in plastic food packaging materials monitoring system to ensure product safety. I recommend: First, to establish material security database, whereby legislation, the provisions of which can be used in food packaging materials, chemical additives which can be used for food packaging materials, which materials can be used for direct contact food packaging, migration to the maximum food is. Furthermore, we should develop the appropriate test method standards. Third, monitoring the whole process of food packaging materials, raw materials, production processes, finished products, storage and use. Should at least implement retrospective control system to achieve effective control of the safety of plastic food packaging.

This practical and sleek camera concept from designers Sun Ho Sin and Jeong Eun Park takes inspiration from laptop design to

protect both LCD screen and lens when not in use.

There have been folding cameras around almost forever, but this was usually to protect just the lens, or to make a bulky box

more portable. This flip around design, called the Zero Angle, fixes a very modern problem: both the front and the back of a

digicam have easy-to-scratch parts. The camera opens up like a clamshell and the hard front cover swings 360-degrees to

become the screen at the back. This makes it pretty much pocket-proof.

The hinge also acts as a chunky hand-grip, especially useful on such a small camera. What I like most is that this is

effectively a case and a camera in one: you don’t have to spend time taking the camera out, or finding somewhere to stow a

padded pouch while you shoot.

The render of the design is a little odd, though. The redundant lens-cover makes us think that the flap was digitally added

to a photo of an existing model. Still, the idea is great, if not completely original. Canon: add this to your already

wonderful S90 compact and you probably wouldn’t be able to make enough of them.

Alcatel OT-808 available from next month for £49.99

Open up most clamshell phones and you’ll find a run of the mill 3×4 standard keypad. Not so the Alcatel OT-808, no siree. Sporting a full QWERTY keyboard, you’ll be able to bang out those text messages without having to resort to predictive text, or update your social networking statuses with shortcuts to Facebook, Bebo and Twitter. The colour screen measures a satisfactory 2.4-inch while there’s also a smaller OLED display on the outer shell alerting you to any incoming calls or messages. Other highlights include a two-megapixel camera, with the ability to store microSD cards of up to 4GB.

According to Alcatel the handset is designed exclusively for women, presumably on account of it being pink and (not our words) being “perfect for catching up with the gossip.” That aside, there’s no denying the £49.99 price point is very appealing.

The Alcatel OT-808 is available from April on Pay As You Go, exclusive to Carphone Warehouse.

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Of the 20th century the development of synthetic resin material and industrialization, made of plastic packaging material is given an unprecedented development, the same time, plastic food packaging materials has become the most important packaging material.
Plastic food packaging has the following characteristics:
1. Applied very widely, from fresh food to which means that the cooked food, from cereals to meat, from a single package to transport packaging, from solid food to liquid food, covering the entire food production, processing and sales chain, has become a food part of industry itself.
2. Packaged in various forms, with tray type, container type, tube type, bag type, single-layer plastic film, multilayer film class and so on.
3. Use of plastic packaging when conditions vary, there is cold, but also microwave heating, high temperature cooking, etc..
4. Direct contact with food within the packaging as the main packaging, and packing the contents has a very diverse species composition.
5. Packaging plastic varieties, products of chemical composition is extremely complex.
The face of such deep integration with the food industry plastic packaging, its potential health and safety risks can not be ignored, is the current food safety control system we are an important part.
The following plastic packaging materials to major potential security risk to do a brief analysis:
The first type of plastic container packaging. Common plastic containers for food packaging mainly polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester, etc., packing container security risk is mainly of plastic processing additives, such as plasticizers, antioxidants, functional additives, such as anti-static agent and coloring agents. These processing aids in the migration to the food, plastic production in the residual monomer and catalyst to move food, plastics processing, thermal decomposition, the product of the aging of the migration to food. These migratory movements of food safety hazards.
The second type is single-layer plastic film-like material. Common single plastic food packaging film is polyethylene, polypropylene, cellophane, the security risk is similar to packaging containers.
The third type of plastic composite packaging materials. As the colorful composite packaging materials and various forms of functional and has become the main form of packaging food packaging. The composite materials are widely used in packaging materials, process complexity, the potential safety problems are most difficult to control the most.
Four problems:
First, the plastic material itself residual monomer, various additives and processing substances produced by the migration of low molecular weight problems.
Second, bring the solvent printing plastic residues, especially ketones, benzene solvents, inks, heavy metals and various additives.
Third, the composite adhesive, AC agent into the solvent residue, especially polyurethane adhesives Tour divorce NCO content and aromatic isocyanate polyurethane adhesives in the aromatic esters of isocyanate reacting with water, the aromatic primary amine (PAA) problem . Water or alcohol-soluble polyurethane production of dispersing agent, blocking agent, protective agent problem.
Fourth, the bag, squeezing complex processes in the slippery powder.
These packaging materials in contact with food during the great migration to food in food safety.
In addition to the packaging material itself and the processing of security risks arising from products in the transportation, storage, use also may be secondary pollution, some manufacturers food and non food packaging material produced by mixing the management of the production also brings the corresponding Loudong risk.
At present our country’s plastic packaging for food did not achieve effective control, resulting in a significant security risk.
Therefore, we must be in plastic food packaging materials monitoring system to ensure product safety. I recommend: First, to establish material security database, whereby legislation, the provisions of which can be used in food packaging materials, chemical additives which can be used for food packaging materials, which materials can be used for direct contact food packaging, migration to the maximum food is. Furthermore, we should develop the appropriate test method standards. Third, monitoring the whole process of food packaging materials, raw materials, production processes, finished products, storage and use. Should at least implement retrospective control system to achieve effective control of the safety of plastic food packaging.

Currently, people always have plastic food packaging concerns about this or that, even suggested that plastic “toxic.” But industry experts say: plastic food packaging is safe for use, but do not use colored plastic bags of food.

Experts remind, packed in plastic bags of cooked food, snacks and other food for immediate consumption, it is best not to use colored plastic bags. Because of the permeability for plastic dye pigment and volatile strong case of oil, when heated, when the easy leakage. If it is an organic dye, which will contain aromatics, have some impact on health. In addition, many colored plastic bags are made from recycled plastic, recycled plastic as a lot of impurities, in which manufacturers have to add paint to cover up. However, some in plastic bags, recycled plastic as raw material is white. Experts also pointed out that currently no effective way to distinguish between the special plastic grocery bags, but one thing is certain, non-formal manufacturers, in street stalls do not sell plastic bags for food packaging. In addition, the plastic bags if there is a special smell, can not be used to hold food.

According to reports, the current plastics used for packaging food products of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester, polystyrene, etc., its health properties are eligible for food packaging is safe. But consumers can not distinguish between food and non-food bags, there are a considerable part of the unqualified plastic bags to be used in food packaging a serious threat to people’s health.

While the plastic food packaging bag is safe, but should also pay attention to methods in use. Do not use plastic bags a long hot food. In daily life, often see people with plastic bags of steaming fried cake, fried dough sticks, etc., if eaten within a short time, not much harm, but a long time to cover their food hot in the bag, would make plastic bags, some of the material leakage and impact on health. Microwave heating of food, the best microwave special plastic bags and special containers. Refrigerator, cold storage and frozen food wrap applications, rather than using plastic bags instead of the ordinary. In addition, buying plastic wrap should look for QS logo.

In the “Food Safety Law”, “used in food packaging materials and containers that package food or food additives used in full bloom of paper, bamboo, wood, metal, enamel, ceramic, plastic, rubber, natural fiber, chemical fiber and glass products, and direct contact with food or food additive paint. ”

As food of the “personal clothing”, the safety of food packaging materials will directly affect food quality, substandard food packaging in the course of adverse effects to human health, particularly the health of children and young people will have a significant safety development hidden.

Understand consumer

Plastic preferred “PE” logo

1, to the regular supermarkets to buy the regular product, obtain a copy of notes of evidence in future when the only evidence of complaints or reports.

2, carefully read the product packaging information, including name of manufacturer, production license (QS), production numbers, corporate logos and trademarks.

3, buy fresh film and plastic products, look for product packaging are not specified by the polyethylene (PE) is made of plastic wrap or plastic products, packaging is marked with “PE”, “do not contain PVC” or “can be used for microwave heating,” such a symbol, written material of PVC or do not do not buy as much as possible.

4, pay attention to product use and application and, if inappropriate equipment plastic oil, acidic food.

5, when the food is any plastic film packaging, must not use the microwave cooking or in the steamer, rice cooker heating.

Plugging the new law

Article 27: Food production and operation shall comply with food safety standards and meet the following requirements:

(E) tableware, drinking, and in full bloom with the direct import of food containers should be washed before use, disinfection, cooking utensils, appliances should be cleaned after use to keep clean;

(F) the storage, transport and handling of food containers, tools and equipment should be safe, sound, clean to prevent food contamination and meet the required temperature to ensure food safety and other special requirements, may not be food and toxic, hazardous materials with transport;

(G) directly imported food should be small packets or in nontoxic, clean packaging materials, utensils.