Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ 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 RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (EU register number RECYC199), which uses the Starlinger iV+ technology. The input is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terepht...
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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 Remigio Marano 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 Remigio Marano 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 RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (EU register number RECYC199), which uses the Starlinger iV+ 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 dried and crystallised in a first reactor, then extruded into pellets. These pellets are crystallised, preheated and treated in a solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) reactor. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the drying and crystallisation (step 2), extrusion and crystallisation (step 3) and SSP (step 4) are critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of these critical steps are temperature, air flow and residence time for the drying and crystallisation step, and temperature, pressure and residence time for the extrusion and crystallisation step as well as the SSP step. 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 and conventional ovens and such uses are not covered by this evaluation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a081fd6c06d946e7a8cb3a05877178442022-12-21T18:31:36ZengWileyEFSA Journal1831-47322021-08-01198n/an/a10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6792Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ 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 LioupisRemigio MaranoEvgenia LampiAbstract The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (EU register number RECYC199), which uses the Starlinger iV+ 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 dried and crystallised in a first reactor, then extruded into pellets. These pellets are crystallised, preheated and treated in a solid‐state polycondensation (SSP) reactor. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the drying and crystallisation (step 2), extrusion and crystallisation (step 3) and SSP (step 4) are critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of these critical steps are temperature, air flow and residence time for the drying and crystallisation step, and temperature, pressure and residence time for the extrusion and crystallisation step as well as the SSP step. 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 and conventional ovens and such uses are not covered by this evaluation.https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6792Starlinger iV+RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIARECINPRAfood contact materialsplasticpoly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) |
| 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 Remigio Marano Evgenia Lampi Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials EFSA Journal Starlinger iV+ RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA RECINPRA food contact materials plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) |
| title | Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_full | Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_fullStr | Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_short | Safety assessment of the process RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA (RECINPRA), based on Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_sort | safety assessment of the process reciclados industriales de pravia recinpra based on starlinger iv technology used to recycle post consumer pet into food contact materials |
| topic | Starlinger iV+ RECICLADOS INDUSTRIALES DE PRAVIA RECINPRA food contact materials plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6792 |
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