Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
Abstract The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Cirrec Netherlands BV (EU register number RECYC283), which uses the EREMA Basic technology. The input material is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate...
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| author | EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) Claude Lambré José Manuel Barat Baviera Claudia Bolognesi Andrew Chesson Pier Sandro Cocconcelli Riccardo Crebelli David Michael Gott Konrad Grob Marcel Mengelers Alicja Mortensen Gilles Rivière Inger‐Lise Steffensen Christina Tlustos Henk Van Loveren Laurence Vernis Holger Zorn Vincent Dudler Maria Rosaria Milana Constantine Papaspyrides Maria de Fátima Tavares Poças Katharina Volk Evgenia Lampi |
| author_facet | EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) Claude Lambré José Manuel Barat Baviera Claudia Bolognesi Andrew Chesson Pier Sandro Cocconcelli Riccardo Crebelli David Michael Gott Konrad Grob Marcel Mengelers Alicja Mortensen Gilles Rivière Inger‐Lise Steffensen Christina Tlustos Henk Van Loveren Laurence Vernis Holger Zorn Vincent Dudler Maria Rosaria Milana Constantine Papaspyrides Maria de Fátima Tavares Poças Katharina Volk Evgenia Lampi |
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| description | Abstract The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Cirrec Netherlands BV (EU register number RECYC283), which uses the EREMA Basic technology. The input material is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, including less than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are heated in a continuous reactor under vacuum before being extruded. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the continuous decontamination (step 2), for which a challenge test was provided, is critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of this step are temperature, pressure and residence time. 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 0.1 μg/kg food, derived from the exposure scenario for infants when such recycled PET is used at up to 100%. 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, including drinking water, for long‐term storage at room temperature or below, with or without hotfill. This evaluation does not cover uses of the recycled PET in microwaves or conventional ovens. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-133ab4a8f8cd458a957fac910c90eee02025-08-20T03:18:46ZengWileyEFSA Journal1831-47322023-07-01217n/an/a10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8086Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materialsEFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP)Claude LambréJosé Manuel Barat BavieraClaudia BolognesiAndrew ChessonPier Sandro CocconcelliRiccardo CrebelliDavid Michael GottKonrad GrobMarcel MengelersAlicja MortensenGilles RivièreInger‐Lise SteffensenChristina TlustosHenk Van LoverenLaurence VernisHolger ZornVincent DudlerMaria Rosaria MilanaConstantine PapaspyridesMaria de Fátima Tavares PoçasKatharina VolkEvgenia LampiAbstract The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of the recycling process Cirrec Netherlands BV (EU register number RECYC283), which uses the EREMA Basic technology. The input material is hot caustic washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, including less than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are heated in a continuous reactor under vacuum before being extruded. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the continuous decontamination (step 2), for which a challenge test was provided, is critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance of this step are temperature, pressure and residence time. 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 0.1 μg/kg food, derived from the exposure scenario for infants when such recycled PET is used at up to 100%. 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, including drinking water, for long‐term storage at room temperature or below, with or without hotfill. This evaluation does not cover uses of the recycled PET in microwaves or conventional ovens.https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8086EREMA BasicCirrec Netherlands BVfood contact materialsplasticpoly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)recycling process |
| spellingShingle | EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) Claude Lambré José Manuel Barat Baviera Claudia Bolognesi Andrew Chesson Pier Sandro Cocconcelli Riccardo Crebelli David Michael Gott Konrad Grob Marcel Mengelers Alicja Mortensen Gilles Rivière Inger‐Lise Steffensen Christina Tlustos Henk Van Loveren Laurence Vernis Holger Zorn Vincent Dudler Maria Rosaria Milana Constantine Papaspyrides Maria de Fátima Tavares Poças Katharina Volk Evgenia Lampi Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials EFSA Journal EREMA Basic Cirrec Netherlands BV food contact materials plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) recycling process |
| title | Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_full | Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_fullStr | Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_short | Safety assessment of the process Cirrec Netherlands BV, based on the EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials |
| title_sort | safety assessment of the process cirrec netherlands bv based on the erema basic technology used to recycle post consumer pet into food contact materials |
| topic | EREMA Basic Cirrec Netherlands BV food contact materials plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) recycling process |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8086 |
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