TY - JOUR
T1 - Safety assessment of the process Nosoplas, based on Starlinger iV+ technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials
AU - EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP)
AU - Lambré, Claude
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 - Mengelers, Marcel
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 - Poças, Maria de Fátima Tavares
AU - Croera, Cristina
AU - Lioupis, Alexandros
AU - Lampi, Evgenia
N1 - Funding Information:
The Panel wishes to thank Stavroula Sampani for the support provided to this scientific output.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Nosoplas (EU register number RECYC190), 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.
AB - The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Nosoplas (EU register number RECYC190), 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.
KW - Food contact materials
KW - Nosoplas
KW - Plastic
KW - Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)
KW - Recycling process
KW - Safety assessment
KW - Starlinger iV+
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114046156&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6798
DO - 10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6798
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 34429781
AN - SCOPUS:85114046156
SN - 1831-4732
VL - 19
JO - EFSA Journal
JF - EFSA Journal
IS - 8
M1 - e06798
ER -