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Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON 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 BPCL (EU register number RECYC220), which uses the Starlinger deCON technology. The input material is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating fr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8527368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34707720 http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6866 |
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author | Lambré, Claude Barat Baviera, José Manuel Bolognesi, Claudia Chesson, Andrew Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro Crebelli, Riccardo Gott, David Michael Grob, Konrad Mengelers, Marcel Mortensen, Alicja Rivière, Gilles Steffensen, Inger‐Lise Tlustos, Christina Van Loveren, Henk Vernis, Laurence Zorn, Holger Dudler, Vincent Milana, Maria Rosaria Papaspyrides, Constantine Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima Lioupis, Alexandros Lampi, Evgenia |
author_facet | Lambré, Claude Barat Baviera, José Manuel Bolognesi, Claudia Chesson, Andrew Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro Crebelli, Riccardo Gott, David Michael Grob, Konrad Mengelers, Marcel Mortensen, Alicja Rivière, Gilles Steffensen, Inger‐Lise Tlustos, Christina Van Loveren, Henk Vernis, Laurence Zorn, Holger Dudler, Vincent Milana, Maria Rosaria Papaspyrides, Constantine Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima Lioupis, Alexandros Lampi, Evgenia |
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description | The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process BPCL (EU register number RECYC220), which uses the Starlinger deCON technology. The input material is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, e.g. bottles, including no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are preheated before being submitted to solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) in a continuous reactor at high temperature under vacuum and ■■■■■. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the preheating (step 2) and the decontamination in the ■■■■■ SSP reactor (step 3) are critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of these critical steps are temperature, pressure, residence time and ■■■■■. It was demonstrated that this recycling process is able to ensure a level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food below the conservatively modelled migration of 0.1 μg/kg food. Therefore, the Panel concluded that the recycled PET obtained from this process is not considered to be of safety concern, when used at up to 100% for the manufacture of materials and articles for contact with all types of foodstuffs for long‐term storage at room temperature, with or without hotfill. The final articles made of this recycled PET are not intended to be used in microwave or conventional ovens and such uses are not covered by this evaluation. |
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spelling | pubmed-85273682021-10-26 Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials Lambré, Claude Barat Baviera, José Manuel Bolognesi, Claudia Chesson, Andrew Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro Crebelli, Riccardo Gott, David Michael Grob, Konrad Mengelers, Marcel Mortensen, Alicja Rivière, Gilles Steffensen, Inger‐Lise Tlustos, Christina Van Loveren, Henk Vernis, Laurence Zorn, Holger Dudler, Vincent Milana, Maria Rosaria Papaspyrides, Constantine Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima Lioupis, Alexandros 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 BPCL (EU register number RECYC220), which uses the Starlinger deCON technology. The input material is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, e.g. bottles, including no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are preheated before being submitted to solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) in a continuous reactor at high temperature under vacuum and ■■■■■. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the preheating (step 2) and the decontamination in the ■■■■■ SSP reactor (step 3) are critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of these critical steps are temperature, pressure, residence time and ■■■■■. It was demonstrated that this recycling process is able to ensure a level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food below the conservatively modelled migration of 0.1 μg/kg food. Therefore, the Panel concluded that the recycled PET obtained from this process is not considered to be of safety concern, when used at up to 100% for the manufacture of materials and articles for contact with all types of foodstuffs for long‐term storage at room temperature, with or without hotfill. The final articles made of this recycled PET are not intended to be used in microwave or conventional ovens and such uses are not covered by this evaluation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8527368/ /pubmed/34707720 http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6866 Text en © 2021 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ (https://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 Lambré, Claude Barat Baviera, José Manuel Bolognesi, Claudia Chesson, Andrew Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro Crebelli, Riccardo Gott, David Michael Grob, Konrad Mengelers, Marcel Mortensen, Alicja Rivière, Gilles Steffensen, Inger‐Lise Tlustos, Christina Van Loveren, Henk Vernis, Laurence Zorn, Holger Dudler, Vincent Milana, Maria Rosaria Papaspyrides, Constantine Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima Lioupis, Alexandros Lampi, Evgenia Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
title | Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
title_full | Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
title_fullStr | Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
title_full_unstemmed | Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
title_short | Safety assessment of the process BPCL, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
title_sort | safety assessment of the process bpcl, based on starlinger decon technology, used to recycle post‐consumer pet into food contact materials |
topic | Scientific Opinion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8527368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34707720 http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6866 |
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