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Safety assessment of the process AMB, based on bandera 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 (CEP)
dc.contributor.authorPoças, Maria de Fatima Tavares
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-15T15:47:33Z
dc.date.available2021-05-15T15:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) evaluated the safety of the recycling process AMB (EU register number RECYC154). The input is washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers with no more than 5% PET from non-food applications. It is decontaminated in a reactor at high temperature under vacuum and extruded to sheets. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that two steps, the decontamination in the vacuum reactor (step 2) and the extrusion (step 3), are critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of these critical steps are temperature, residence time and pressure for step 2 and temperature, residence time, pressure and screw speed for step 3. 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. Articles 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.2019.5770pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85070192720
dc.identifier.issn1831-4732
dc.identifier.pmcPMC7009300
dc.identifier.pmid32626383
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33157
dc.identifier.wos000477937200022
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectAMBpt_PT
dc.subjectBanderapt_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.titleSafety assessment of the process AMB, based on bandera technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materialspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.issue7pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEFSA Journalpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume17pt_PT
person.familyNamePoças
person.givenNameMaria de Fátima
person.identifier.ciencia-id1513-5F90-0B67
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6598-6515
person.identifier.scopus-author-id15127714500
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rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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