Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials

Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials

Abstract The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Novapet (EU register number RECYC208), which uses the Protec technology. The input is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes mainly origin...

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Main Authors: EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP), Claude Lambré, José Manuel Barat Baviera, Claudia Bolognesi, Andrew Chesson, Pier Sandro Cocconcelli, Riccardo Crebelli, David Michael Gott, Konrad Grob, Marcel Mengelers, Alicja Mortensen, Gilles Rivière, Inger‐Lise Steffensen, Christina Tlustos, Henk Van Loveren, Laurence Vernis, Holger Zorn, Vincent Dudler, Maria Rosaria Milana, Constantine Papaspyrides, Maria de Fátima Tavares Poças, Alexandros Lioupis, Evgenia Lampi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-08-01
Series:EFSA Journal
Subjects:
Protec
Novapet S.A.
food contact materials
plastic
poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)
recycling process
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6794

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https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6794

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