Bolognesi, Claudia

Castle, Laurence

Cravedi, Jean-Pierre

Dudler, Vincent

EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF)

Engel, Karl-Heinz

Fowler, Paul

Gontard, Nathalie

Grob, Konrad

Gürtler, Rainer

Husøy, Trine

Kärenlampi, Sirpa

Lampi, Eugenia

Lioupis, Alexandros

Mennes, Wim

Milana, Maria Rosaria

Nerin, Cristina

Papaspyrides, Constantine

Penninks, André

Silano, Vittorio

Smith, Andrew

Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima

Tlustos, Christina

Wölfle, Detlef

Zorn, Holger

Zugravu, Corina-Aurelia

EFSA Journal

English

This scientific opinion of the EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF Panel) deals with the safety assessment of the recycling process Alimpet (EU register number RECYC0136), which is based on the EREMA Multi-Purpose Reactor (MPR) technology. The input to this process is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, containing no more than 5% PET from non-food consumer applications. In this technology, post-consumer washed and dried PET flakes are heated in a continuous reactor under vacuum. Having examined the results of the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the continuous reactor step (step 2) is the critical step that determines the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters controlling its performance are well defined and are temperature, pressure and residence time. It was demonstrated that, depending on the operating conditions, the recycling process under evaluation is able to ensure that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is below a conservatively modelled migration of 0.15 lg/kg food derived from the exposure scenario for toddlers. The Panel concluded that recycled PET obtained from the process is not of safety concern when used in extruded PET sheet for thermoforming trays and containers made with up to 100% recycled post-consumer PET, and used for contact with all types of foodstuff except packaged water, for long-term storage at room temperature. Thermoformed trays are not intended to be used and should not be used in microwave and conventional ovens

European Food Safety Authority

Engel, Karl‐Heinz

Zugravu, Corina‐Aurelia

ProdInra

Safety assessment of the process ‘Alimpet’, based on EREMA MPR technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials

Cravedi, Jean Pierre,

HAL Descartes

International audienceThis scientific opinion of the EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF Panel) deals with the safety assessment of the recycling process Alimpet (EU register number RECYC0136), which is based on the EREMA Multi-Purpose Reactor (MPR) technology. The input to this process is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, containing no more than 5% PET from non-food consumer applications. In this technology, post-consumer washed and dried PET flakes are heated in a continuous reactor under vacuum. Having examined the results of the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the continuous reactor step (step 2) is the critical step that determines the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters controlling its performance are well defined and are temperature, pressure and residence time. It was demonstrated that, depending on the operating conditions, the recycling process under evaluation is able to ensure that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is below a conservatively modelled migration of 0.15 lg/kg food derived from the exposure scenario for toddlers. The Panel concluded that recycled PET obtained from the process is not of safety concern when used in extruded PET sheet for thermoforming trays and containers made with up to 100% recycled post-consumer PET, and used for contact with all types of foodstuff except packaged water, for long-term storage at room temperature. Thermoformed trays are not intended to be used and should not be used in microwave and conventional ovens

Cravedi, Jean Pierre, J. P.

Engel, Karl‐heinz

Zugravu, Corina‐aurelia

Portail HAL Um  (Université de Montpellier)

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Vittorio Silano

Claudia Bolognesi

Laurence Castle

Jean‐Pierre Cravedi

Karl‐Heinz Engel

Paul Fowler

Konrad Grob

Rainer Gürtler

Trine Husøy

Sirpa Kärenlampi

Wim Mennes

André Penninks

Andrew Smith

Maria de Fátima Tavares Poças

Christina Tlustos

Detlef Wölfle

Holger Zorn

Corina‐Aurelia Zugravu

Vincent Dudler

Nathalie Gontard

Eugenia Lampi

Cristina Nerin

Constantine Papaspyrides

Alexandros Lioupis

Maria Rosaria Milana

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Safety assessment of the process ‘Alimpet’, based on EREMA MPR technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials

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https://hal.science/hal-01606839v1/file/10.2903_j.efsa.2017.4845_1.pdf

Safety assessment of the process ‘Alimpet’, based on EREMA MPR technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials

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