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Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials

The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process RecyPET Hungária (EU register number RECYC0146). The input is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET c...

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Autores principales: Silano, Vittorio, Barat Baviera, José Manuel, Bolognesi, Claudia, Brüschweiler, Beat Johannes, Chesson, Andrew, Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro, Crebelli, Riccardo, Gott, David Michael, Grob, Konrad, Mortensen, Alicja, Rivière, Gilles, Steffensen, Inger‐Lise, Tlustos, Christina, Van Loveren, Henk, Vernis, Laurence, Zorn, Holger, Castle, Laurence, Dudler, Vincent, Gontard, Nathalie, Milana, Maria Rosaria, Nerin, Cristina, Papaspyrides, Constantine, Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima, Volk, Katharina, Lampi, Evgenia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7009352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32625763
http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5481
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author Silano, Vittorio
Barat Baviera, José Manuel
Bolognesi, Claudia
Brüschweiler, Beat Johannes
Chesson, Andrew
Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro
Crebelli, Riccardo
Gott, David Michael
Grob, Konrad
Mortensen, Alicja
Rivière, Gilles
Steffensen, Inger‐Lise
Tlustos, Christina
Van Loveren, Henk
Vernis, Laurence
Zorn, Holger
Castle, Laurence
Dudler, Vincent
Gontard, Nathalie
Milana, Maria Rosaria
Nerin, Cristina
Papaspyrides, Constantine
Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima
Volk, Katharina
Lampi, Evgenia
author_facet Silano, Vittorio
Barat Baviera, José Manuel
Bolognesi, Claudia
Brüschweiler, Beat Johannes
Chesson, Andrew
Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro
Crebelli, Riccardo
Gott, David Michael
Grob, Konrad
Mortensen, Alicja
Rivière, Gilles
Steffensen, Inger‐Lise
Tlustos, Christina
Van Loveren, Henk
Vernis, Laurence
Zorn, Holger
Castle, Laurence
Dudler, Vincent
Gontard, Nathalie
Milana, Maria Rosaria
Nerin, Cristina
Papaspyrides, Constantine
Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima
Volk, Katharina
Lampi, Evgenia
collection PubMed
description The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process RecyPET Hungária (EU register number RECYC0146). The input is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, containing no more than 5% of PET from non‐food applications. The flakes are dried and extruded. The output of the extrusion step is cut into pellets in an underwater chamber and then recrystallised. The crystallised pellets may then be fed into a solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) reactor. The recycled plastic is intended for manufacture of bottles for soft drinks or water. The applicant provided a challenge test, but the flakes contaminated with the surrogates and the pellets obtained after extrusion and crystallisation were extracted with n‐hexane without showing sufficient recovery. The Panel considered the extraction as unreliable and could therefore not conclude on the efficiency of the decontamination process. Furthermore, the flow charts provided by the applicant did not enable a clear identification of the steps relevant for the decontamination efficiency, and no sufficiently clear overview of the operational parameters of the steps of the process and the challenge test was provided. Without this information, a proper safety evaluation could not be performed. The Panel concluded that the process RecyPET Hungária is not sufficiently characterised and the applicant has not demonstrated in an adequately performed challenge test or by other appropriate evidence that the recycling process RecyPET Hungária is able to reduce contamination of the PET input to a concentration that does not pose a risk to human health.
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spelling pubmed-70093522020-07-02 Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials Silano, Vittorio Barat Baviera, José Manuel Bolognesi, Claudia Brüschweiler, Beat Johannes Chesson, Andrew Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro Crebelli, Riccardo Gott, David Michael Grob, Konrad Mortensen, Alicja Rivière, Gilles Steffensen, Inger‐Lise Tlustos, Christina Van Loveren, Henk Vernis, Laurence Zorn, Holger Castle, Laurence Dudler, Vincent Gontard, Nathalie Milana, Maria Rosaria Nerin, Cristina Papaspyrides, Constantine Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima Volk, Katharina Lampi, Evgenia EFSA J Scientific Opinion The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process RecyPET Hungária (EU register number RECYC0146). The input is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, containing no more than 5% of PET from non‐food applications. The flakes are dried and extruded. The output of the extrusion step is cut into pellets in an underwater chamber and then recrystallised. The crystallised pellets may then be fed into a solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) reactor. The recycled plastic is intended for manufacture of bottles for soft drinks or water. The applicant provided a challenge test, but the flakes contaminated with the surrogates and the pellets obtained after extrusion and crystallisation were extracted with n‐hexane without showing sufficient recovery. The Panel considered the extraction as unreliable and could therefore not conclude on the efficiency of the decontamination process. Furthermore, the flow charts provided by the applicant did not enable a clear identification of the steps relevant for the decontamination efficiency, and no sufficiently clear overview of the operational parameters of the steps of the process and the challenge test was provided. Without this information, a proper safety evaluation could not be performed. The Panel concluded that the process RecyPET Hungária is not sufficiently characterised and the applicant has not demonstrated in an adequately performed challenge test or by other appropriate evidence that the recycling process RecyPET Hungária is able to reduce contamination of the PET input to a concentration that does not pose a risk to human health. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7009352/ /pubmed/32625763 http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5481 Text en © 2018 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and no modifications or adaptations are made.
spellingShingle Scientific Opinion
Silano, Vittorio
Barat Baviera, José Manuel
Bolognesi, Claudia
Brüschweiler, Beat Johannes
Chesson, Andrew
Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro
Crebelli, Riccardo
Gott, David Michael
Grob, Konrad
Mortensen, Alicja
Rivière, Gilles
Steffensen, Inger‐Lise
Tlustos, Christina
Van Loveren, Henk
Vernis, Laurence
Zorn, Holger
Castle, Laurence
Dudler, Vincent
Gontard, Nathalie
Milana, Maria Rosaria
Nerin, Cristina
Papaspyrides, Constantine
Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima
Volk, Katharina
Lampi, Evgenia
Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_full Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_fullStr Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_full_unstemmed Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_short Safety assessment of the process ‘RecyPET Hungária’, based on RecyPET Hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_sort safety assessment of the process ‘recypet hungária’, based on recypet hungária technology, used to recycle post‐consumer pet into food contact materials
topic Scientific Opinion
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7009352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32625763
http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5481
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