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Safety assessment of the process Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic 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 Utsumi (EU register number RECYC232), which uses the EREMA Basic technology. The input material is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originati...

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Autores principales: 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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9087448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35582364
http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7278
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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 Utsumi (EU register number RECYC232), which uses the EREMA Basic technology. The input material is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, including no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are heated in a continuous reactor under vacuum before being extruded. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the continuous reactor (step 2, for which a challenge test was provided) is critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of this step are temperature, pressure and residence time. 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, derived from the exposure scenario for infants when such recycled PET is used at up to 100%. 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, including drinking water, for long‐term storage at room temperature. Articles made of this recycled PET are not intended to be used in microwave and conventional ovens and such uses are not covered by this evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-90874482022-05-16 Safety assessment of the process Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic 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 Utsumi (EU register number RECYC232), which uses the EREMA Basic technology. The input material is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, including no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are heated in a continuous reactor under vacuum before being extruded. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the continuous reactor (step 2, for which a challenge test was provided) is critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of this step are temperature, pressure and residence time. 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, derived from the exposure scenario for infants when such recycled PET is used at up to 100%. 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, including drinking water, for long‐term storage at room temperature. Articles made of this recycled PET are not intended to be used in microwave and conventional ovens and such uses are not covered by this evaluation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9087448/ /pubmed/35582364 http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7278 Text en © 2022 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA on behalf of the 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 Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title Safety assessment of the process Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_full Safety assessment of the process Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_fullStr Safety assessment of the process Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_full_unstemmed Safety assessment of the process Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_short Safety assessment of the process Utsumi, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
title_sort safety assessment of the process utsumi, based on the erema basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer pet into food contact materials
topic Scientific Opinion
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9087448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35582364
http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7278
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