Packaging industry fights back

 
Economy The Swiss Packaging Institute (SVI), together with the paint and varnish industry, the printing industry and the food industry, is opposing the planned change in food legislation regarding the approval of printing inks for food packaging. The reason for this is the technical and economic restrictions that a change to the permitted printing inks for packaging printing would entail for the Swiss industry. The new list proposed by the FOPH contains only a fraction of the printing inks currently in use and would put Swiss companies at a disadvantage compared to foreign competitors.