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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| author | 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 |
| author_facet | 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 |
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| description | 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 originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, with no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are extruded into pellets, crystallised and treated in a solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) reactor. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the SSP (step 4) is critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of this critical step are temperature, pressure and residence time. It was demonstrated that this recycling process is able to ensure that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is 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 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 | doaj.art-21a30d91437347619163a854ec6164b72022-12-21T21:31:55ZengWileyEFSA Journal1831-47322021-08-01198n/an/a10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6794Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materialsEFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP)Claude LambréJosé Manuel Barat BavieraClaudia BolognesiAndrew ChessonPier Sandro CocconcelliRiccardo CrebelliDavid Michael GottKonrad GrobMarcel MengelersAlicja MortensenGilles RivièreInger‐Lise SteffensenChristina TlustosHenk Van LoverenLaurence VernisHolger ZornVincent DudlerMaria Rosaria MilanaConstantine PapaspyridesMaria de Fátima Tavares PoçasAlexandros LioupisEvgenia LampiAbstract 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 originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, with no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are extruded into pellets, crystallised and treated in a solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) reactor. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the SSP (step 4) is critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of this critical step are temperature, pressure and residence time. It was demonstrated that this recycling process is able to ensure that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is 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 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.https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6794ProtecNovapet S.A.food contact materialsplasticpoly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)recycling process |
| spellingShingle | 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 Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials EFSA Journal Protec Novapet S.A. food contact materials plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) recycling process |
| title | Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_full | Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_fullStr | Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_short | Safety assessment of the process Novapet, based on Protec technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_sort | safety assessment of the process novapet based on protec technology used to recycle post consumer pet into food contact materials |
| topic | Protec Novapet S.A. food contact materials plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) recycling process |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6794 |
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