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All rights reserved. Videojet Technologies Inc.’s policy is one of continued product improvement. LAS VEGAS • MIAMI • MONTREAL • TORONTO We reserve the right to alter design and/or specifi cations without notice. 1905_PAX_DoubtAd_CanadianPkg_11x14.875_PUB.inddCPK_Weightpac_Paxion_March18_CSA.indd 1 1 2018-03-051/9/18 9:38 7:40 AM AM CPACK_MARCH_BAS.indd 2 2018-03-14 10:52 AM CPK_Videojete_June.indd 1 2017-06-09 1:58 PM The smarter way to print is with true CIJ innovation 4 3 2 BECAUSE DOUBT HAS NO PLACE IN THE BUYING PROCESS 1 PAXIOM’s Xperience Centers™ are four strategically-located demonstration centers, housing a variety of machinery for the sole It’s here! purpose of allowing you to see, touch and operate our equipment... even with your own product. The new Videojet 1860 Continuous Inkjet Printer Hundreds of buyers have already been through our doors, * making PAXIOM’s re-invention of the sales process 1. True predictability 2. True remote services 3. True IP rating 4. 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VideojetConnect™ Remote design. and functionalities, and to Service, and help to improve meet growing demands. machine uptime and customer PAXIOM X PERIENCE CENTER experience. * Subject to availability in your country The Videojet 1860 – Discover the smarter way to print videojet.com/1860 1.833.4PAXIOM paxiom.com ©2017 Videojet Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. Videojet Technologies Inc.’s policy is one of continued product improvement. LAS VEGAS • MIAMI • MONTREAL • TORONTO We reserve the right to alter design and/or specifi cations without notice. 1905_PAX_DoubtAd_CanadianPkg_11x14.875_PUB.inddCPK_Weightpac_Paxion_March18_CSA.indd 1 1 2018-03-051/9/18 9:38 7:40 AM AM CPACK_MARCH_BAS.inddCPK_Videojete_June.indd 1 1 2018-03-142017-06-09 10:52 1:58 AMPM WE INSPECT TO HIGHER STANDARDS... YOUR CUSTOMERS’. Your customers have more on the line than dinner...that’s why we built the XR75 X-Ray. It protects consumers by detecting XR75 the smallest contaminants in the industry, while advancing product quality and overall food safety. Learn more about the industry’s most precise and reliable inspection detection equipment with unmatched performance and low cost of ownership at anritsu.com. CPK_ Anritsu_March18_CSA.indd 1 2018-02-21 9:24 AM CPACK_MARCH_BAS.indd 2 2018-03-14 10:52 AM UPFRONT WE INSPECT TO NO TRADE-OFFS ON FOOD SAFETY o now that we have had food production, processing, distribution and HIGHER STANDARDS... about a year-and-a-half to preparation; Stry to come to grips with it, • Share and interpret food safety testing and sur- it seems fair to say that the only veillance data gathered across North America and YOUR CUSTOMERS’. MARCH 2018 predictable thing about the cur- globally; VOLUME 71, NO. 3 rent White House administration is its uncanny • Examine emerging risks, establish relationships SENIOR PUBLISHER unpredictability, whereby no existing agreement or between prevalence and levels of contamination Stephen Dean • (416) 510-5198 policy is immune from one-sided revisionism. and update risk assessment models accordingly; [email protected] As the recent diplomatic maelstrom over the pro- • Build harmonized systems for traceability of meat, EDITOR posed punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum export poultry and other food products throughout the George Guidoni • (416) 510-5227 to the U.S. demonstrates, predicting the future of the supply chain, from origin to consumer. [email protected] NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) The truth is that here are many more similarities to FEATURES EDITOR deal uniting the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a be found in our Canada’s Safe Food for Canadians Act, Andrew Joseph • (416) 510-5228 well-integrated trinational trading block is nowadays adopted in 2012, and the Food Safety Modernization [email protected] a largely rhetorical exercise in futility. So one can Act (FSMA), legislated in the U.S. in 2011, than any MEDIA DESIGNER only hope that some of the considerable recent efforts significant differences that could potential serve to Brooke Shaw • (519) 428-3471 on both sides of the border to enhance the movement disrupt the existing trade flows in food-and-bever- [email protected] of goods between Canada and the U.S., specifically age products. ACCOUNT COORDINATOR food products, will not fall by the wayside. That’s why the Canadian Food Inspection Barb Comer • (888) 599-2228 ext 210 While there’s a world of difference between legis- Agency (CFIA) and Health Canada signed [email protected] lating food safety into the existing trade framework an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug CIRCULATION MANAGER and achieving it, there is a lot to be said for the Administration (FDA) in 2016 recognizing each Anita Madden • (416) 442-5600 x3596 AMadden@@annexbusinessmedia.com viability of some proactive ideas put forth during the other’s food safety systems as comparable. so-called NAFTA 2.0 talks held in Ottawa in 2017, And while comparable does not mean identical, it’s VICE PRESIDENT which resulted on mutually endorsed proposal for a a sound starting point for making real progress on Tim Dimopoulos • [email protected] “joint risk assessment organization” that would: food safety. COO • Assess and prevent emerging food-borne threats With both countries ostensibly committed to the Ted Markle • [email protected] (microbiological, chemical and physical, includ- principle that the biggest job governments have is PRESIDENT & CEO ing, where relevant, those linked to animal and to serve their people, discarding all the joint hard- Mike Fredericks plant health); earned advances on food safety to date would be a • Recommend food safety risk thresholds for patho- highly regrettable disservice to the North American ANNEX BUSINESS MEDIA gens, chemical residues, allergens, etc.; public at large, any way you care to spin it. 111 Gordon Baker Rd., Suite 400, Toronto, ON M2H 3R1; Tel: 416-442-5600. • Approve food safety interventions, technologies and analytical test methods; George Guidoni, Editor Canadian Packaging, established 1947, is published 10 times per year except • Validate food safety best practices at all levels of for occasional combined, expanded or premium issues, which count as two subscription issues. 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