Safety Assessment of Recycled Plastics from Post-Consumer Waste with a Combination of a Miniaturized Ames Test and Chromatographic Analysis

Safety Assessment of Recycled Plastics from Post-Consumer Waste with a Combination of a Miniaturized Ames Test and Chromatographic Analysis

European circular economy goals require the use of recycled polymers in sensitive applications such as food packaging. As plastic recyclates can contain unknown post-consumer substances, the European Food Safety Authority evaluates recycling processes using a worst-case assumption: all contaminants...

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Main Authors: Elisa Mayrhofer, Lukas Prielinger, Victor Sharp, Bernhard Rainer, Christian Kirchnawy, Christian Rung, Anita Gruner, Mladen Juric, Arielle Springer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Recycling
Subjects:
exposure
food packaging
food contact materials
miniaturized Ames
polymer contaminants
polyolefins
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-4321/8/6/87

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