TY - JOUR
T1 - Safety assessment of the process Marcato, based on Starlinger Decon technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials
AU - EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP)
AU - Silano, Vittorio
AU - Barat Baviera, José Manuel
AU - Bolognesi, Claudia
AU - Chesson, Andrew
AU - Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro
AU - Crebelli, Riccardo
AU - Gott, David Michael
AU - Grob, Konrad
AU - Mortensen, Alicja
AU - Rivière, Gilles
AU - Steffensen, Inger Lise
AU - Tlustos, Christina
AU - Van Loveren, Henk
AU - Vernis, Laurence
AU - Zorn, Holger
AU - Dudler, Vincent
AU - Milana, Maria Rosaria
AU - Papaspyrides, Constantine
AU - Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima
AU - Lioupis, Alexandros
AU - Lampi, Evgenia
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Marcato (EU register number RECYC162) using the Starlinger Decon technology. The input is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, mainly bottles, with no more than 5% PET from non-food consumer applications. They are preheated before being submitted to solid-state polycondensation (SSP) in a continuous reactor at high temperature under vacuum and gas flow. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the preheating (step 2) and the decontamination in the continuous SSP reactor (step 3) are the critical steps that determine the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of these critical steps are temperature, pressure, residence time and gas flow. 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 considered 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. Trays made of this recycled PET are not intended to be used in microwave and conventional ovens and such use is not covered by this evaluation.
AB - The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Marcato (EU register number RECYC162) using the Starlinger Decon technology. The input is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, mainly bottles, with no more than 5% PET from non-food consumer applications. They are preheated before being submitted to solid-state polycondensation (SSP) in a continuous reactor at high temperature under vacuum and gas flow. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the preheating (step 2) and the decontamination in the continuous SSP reactor (step 3) are the critical steps that determine the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of these critical steps are temperature, pressure, residence time and gas flow. 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 considered 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. Trays made of this recycled PET are not intended to be used in microwave and conventional ovens and such use is not covered by this evaluation.
KW - Food contact materials
KW - Marcato Sp. z o.o.
KW - Plastic
KW - Ply(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)
KW - Recycling process
KW - Safety assessment
KW - Starlinger Decon
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074571138&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5828
DO - 10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5828
M3 - Article
C2 - 32626127
AN - SCOPUS:85074571138
SN - 1831-4732
VL - 17
JO - EFSA Journal
JF - EFSA Journal
IS - 10
M1 - e05828
ER -