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Safety assessment of the process ‘Jász-Plasztik’, based on vacurema prime technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials

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dc.contributor.authorEFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (EFSA CEP Panel)
dc.contributor.authorPoças, Maria de Fátima Tavares
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-24T18:29:25Z
dc.date.available2021-05-24T18:29:25Z
dc.date.issued2019-03
dc.description.abstractThe EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP Panel) assessed the safety of the recycling process Jász-Plasztik (EU register number RECYC0157). The input are hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers and containing no more than 5% PET from non-food applications. They are heated in a batch reactor under vacuum and then heated in a continuous reactor under vacuum before being extruded into pellets. Having examined the results of the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the decontamination in the batch reactors (step 2) and in the continuous 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 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 when used 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, is not considered of safety concern. 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.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5627pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85063635345
dc.identifier.issn1831-4732
dc.identifier.pmcPMC7009227
dc.identifier.pmid32626253
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33200
dc.identifier.wos000462702200017
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectFood contact materialspt_PT
dc.subjectPlasticpt_PT
dc.subjectPoly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)pt_PT
dc.subjectRecycling processpt_PT
dc.subjectSafety assessmentpt_PT
dc.subjectVACUREMA Primept_PT
dc.subjectJász-Plasztikpt_PT
dc.titleSafety assessment of the process ‘Jász-Plasztik’, based on vacurema prime technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materialspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.issue3
oaire.citation.titleEFSA Journalpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume17pt_PT
person.familyNamePoças
person.givenNameMaria de Fátima
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6598-6515
person.identifier.scopus-author-id15127714500
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rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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