A package includes a container, a flowable product dispensably disposed within the container, a closure carried by the container, and an indicator within the container and adapted, upon contact with air, irreversibly to change a characteristic of the indicator that is visible from outside of the container to indicate to a user that the package has been used, wherein the closure includes a closure member carrying the indicator and having a wedge opening, and a wedge member carried in the wedge opening.

A method for the non-invasive measurement of the gas content of at least one gas selected from O.sub.2, CO.sub.2, amines, nitrogen oxides, sulfur compounds, in transparent packages made of plastic films, glass or other light-permeable materials, in which a sensor material sensitive to the gas content in the interior of the package is excited by excitation light incident thereon to emit a fluorescent or luminescent light, the emitted fluorescent or luminescent light is detected in a detection device interacting with the sensor, whereupon the packaged materials or produced materials are subjected to sorting, and optionally counting, as a function of the gas content determined by an evaluation unit coupled to the detection device, comprising the steps of:

a) optionally deep-drawing the package;

b) applying a sensor material to the inner side of a cover for the package, or to the inner side of the package, and optionally drying the sensor material;

c) introducing into the package the materials to be packaged;

d) gas-tightly closing the package by the cover while introducing a modified atmosphere of the gas to be measured;

e) placing the package on a conveying and sorting device;

f) exciting the sensor material by at least one excitation light source arranged at a defined distance from the package;

g) detecting, in a contactless manner, the intensity of the fluorescent or luminescent light emitted by the sensor material as a function of the gas content in the interior of the package, by a detection device arranged at a defined distance from the conveying device during conveying of the package to the sorting device;

h) electrically or electronically converting in the evaluation unit a measurement value detected in the detection device;

i) optionally applying a pressure to the package, and performing steps t) to h) again;

j) outputting a confirmation signal or a rejection signal by the evaluation unit; and

k) forwarding the package to further processing or disposal as a function of the gas content in the package calculated by the evaluation unit, and a device therefore. (FIG. 1)

Disclosed herein are nutritional substance labels that communicate in a format allowing retrieval of adaptive conditioning instructions unique to an individual nutritional product at the time of conditioning and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer.

Disclosed herein are nutritional substance labels that communicate in a format allowing retrieval of adaptive conditioning instructions unique to an individual nutritional product at the time of conditioning and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer.

A laminated package for solid products in powder or grain form, includes a set of stiffening notches, a dispensing mouth with a seal, valves for loading inert gas, in which the lateral folds of the upper face are folded inwards under the front and rear flaps, and the lateral folds of the lower face are folded outward and folded and stuck on the lower face over the front and rear flaps, and a method for forming the package.

A laminated package for solid products in powder or grain form, includes a set of stiffening notches, a dispensing mouth with a seal, valves for loading inert gas, in which the lateral folds of the upper face are folded inwards under the front and rear flaps, and the lateral folds of the lower face are folded outward and folded and stuck on the lower face over the front and rear flaps, and a method for forming the package.

Apparatus and methods for providing samples (e.g., cosmetic samples) with primary product packages (e.g., cosmetic product packages) exterior to the primary product package.

A reclosable hard shell transparent container for a confectionary product includes an inner graphic branding element extending interior to the receptacle, an outer graphic branding element extending exterior to the receptacle, and overwrap layer that collectively provide visually superimposed branding graphics to provide visually distinct packages utilizing the same container. The inner graphic layer facilitates a subassembly of the confectionary products for ease of loading the confectionary product in the container.

A package and method of creating a package for dispensing a product are disclosed. The package comprises a flexible pouch comprising an elongated spout and a flowable product disposed within the pouch. A spout retainer is disposed on an exterior surface of the pouch adjacent to the spout, with opposite ends of the spout retainer attached to the exterior surface of the pouch to form two bridges, each of the bridges having a bridge width that is wider than a spout width to allow the spout to pass underneath each of the two bridges. The package may be manufactured on a vertical form-fill-seal machine where the pouch and spout retainer are formed from different supplies of film material.

A method of manufacturing a spouted pouch aseptically filled with contents includes a supplying process, a sterilizing process, a stopper opening process, a filling process, a tightly re-stopping process, and a capping process. The sterilizing process, the stopper opening process, the filling process, and the tightly re-stopping process are performed in an aseptic chamber.