Electric Literature of C8H8O3In 2020 ,《Safety assessment of process technoplastika prima perdana, based on starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials》 was published in EFSA Journal. The article was written by Silano, Vittorio; Barat Baviera, Jose Manuel; Bolognesi, Claudia; Chesson, Andrew; Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro; Crebelli, Riccardo; Gott, David Michael; Grob, Konrad; Lambre, Claude; Mengelers, Marcel; Mortensen, Alicja; Riviere, Gilles; Steffensen, Inger-Lise; Tlustos, Christina; Van Loveren, Henk; Vernis, Laurence; Zorn, Holger; Dudler, Vincent; Milana, Maria Rosaria; Papaspyrides, Constantine; Tavares Pocas, Maria de Fatima; Lioupis, Alexandros; Lampi, Evgenia. The article contains the following contents:
The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Technoplastika Prima Perdana (EU register number RECYC185), which uses the Starlinger deCON technol. The input material is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, e.g. bottles, including no more than 5% PET from non-food consumer applications. The flakes 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 critical in determining 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 rate. It was demonstrated that this recycling process is able to ensure a level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food below the conservatively modelled migration of 0.1μg/kg food. Therefore, the Panel concluded that the recycled PET obtained from this process is not considered to be 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 hot-fill. Trays 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. The experimental part of the paper was very detailed, including the reaction process of Methyl Salicylate(cas: 119-36-8Electric Literature of C8H8O3)
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