TY - GEN
T1 - Safety assessment of the process ‘Coexpan Montonate’, based on Starlinger Decon technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials
AU - EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF)
AU - Silano, Vittorio
AU - Bolognesi, Claudia
AU - Castle, Laurence
AU - Cravedi, Jean-Pierre
AU - Engel, Karl-Heinz
AU - Fowler, Paul
AU - Grob, Konrad
AU - Gürtler, Rainer
AU - Husøy, Trine
AU - Kärenlampi, Sirpa
AU - Mennes, Wim
AU - Penninks, André
AU - Smith, Andrew
AU - Tavares Poças, Maria de Fátima
AU - Tlustos, Christina
AU - Wölfle, Detlef
AU - Zorn, Holger
AU - Zugravu, Corina-Aurelia
AU - Dudler, Vincent
AU - Gontard, Nathalie
AU - Lampi, Eugenia
AU - Nerin, Cristina
AU - Papaspyrides, Constantine
AU - Croera , Cristina
AU - Volk, Katharina
AU - Milana, Maria Rosaria
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - This scientific opinion of the EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids deals with the safety evaluation of the recycling process Coexpan Montonate (EU register No RECYC0141), which is based on the Starlinger Decon technology. The decontamination efficiency of the process was demonstrated by a challenge test. The input of this process is washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, mainly bottles, containing no more than 5% of PET from non-food consumer applications. In this technology, washed and dried PET 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 the critical steps that determine the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters that control their performance are well defined and are temperature, pressure, residence time and gas flow for step 2 and 3. Under these conditions, it was demonstrated that the recycling process under evaluation, using the Starlinger Decon technology, is able to ensure that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is below a conservatively modelled migration of 0.1 μg/kg food. Therefore, the Panel concluded that the recycled PET obtained from this process intended to be 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 PET are not intended to be used, and should not to be used in microwave and conventional ovens.
AB - This scientific opinion of the EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids deals with the safety evaluation of the recycling process Coexpan Montonate (EU register No RECYC0141), which is based on the Starlinger Decon technology. The decontamination efficiency of the process was demonstrated by a challenge test. The input of this process is washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, mainly bottles, containing no more than 5% of PET from non-food consumer applications. In this technology, washed and dried PET 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 the critical steps that determine the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters that control their performance are well defined and are temperature, pressure, residence time and gas flow for step 2 and 3. Under these conditions, it was demonstrated that the recycling process under evaluation, using the Starlinger Decon technology, is able to ensure that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is below a conservatively modelled migration of 0.1 μg/kg food. Therefore, the Panel concluded that the recycled PET obtained from this process intended to be 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 PET are not intended to be used, and should not to be used in microwave and conventional ovens.
KW - Starlinger Decon technology
KW - Coexpan Montonate
KW - food contact materials
KW - plastic
KW - poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)
KW - recycling process
KW - safety assessment
U2 - 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4848
DO - 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4848
M3 - Article
SN - 1831-4732
VL - 15
SP - e04848
JO - EFSA Journal
JF - EFSA Journal
PB - European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
ER -