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Safety assessment of the process brtCOMBIPET used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Médicas::Ciências da Saúde
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorEFSA FCM Panel (EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials)
dc.contributor.authorLambré, Claude
dc.contributor.authorCrebelli, Riccardo
dc.contributor.authorda Silva, Maria
dc.contributor.authorGrob, Koni
dc.contributor.authorMilana, Maria Rosaria
dc.contributor.authorPronk, Marja
dc.contributor.authorRivière, Gilles
dc.contributor.authorŠčetar, Mario
dc.contributor.authorTheodoridis, Georgios
dc.contributor.authorVan Hoeck, Els
dc.contributor.authorWaegeneers, Nadia
dc.contributor.authorDudler, Vincent
dc.contributor.authorPapaspyrides, Constantine
dc.contributor.authorTavares Poças, Maria de Fátima
dc.contributor.authorLioupis, Alexandros
dc.contributor.authorTsochatzis, Emmanouil
dc.contributor.authorLampi, Evgenia
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-06T11:41:37Z
dc.date.available2026-01-06T11:41:37Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-11
dc.descriptionEFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM) Members: Claude Lambré, Riccardo Crebelli, Maria da Silva, Koni Grob, Evgenia Lampi, Maria Rosaria Milana, Marja Pronk, Gilles Rivière, Mario Ščetar, Georgios Theodoridis, Els Van Hoeck, and Nadia Waegeneers.
dc.description.abstractThe EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM) assessed the safety of the recycling process brtCOMBIPET (EU register number RECYC338). The input is washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes mainly originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, with no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. The flakes are dried (step 6), melted in an extruder (step 7) and pelletised, dried and crystallised (step 8). The pellets are then preheated, further crystallised, then decontaminated in a solid‐state polymerisation (SSP) reactor (step 9) and cooled down. Having examined the challenge tests provided, the Panel concluded that the extrusion, the preheating and the SSP are critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the performance are the temperature and the pressure for step 7 (extrusion) as well as the temperature, residence time and gas flow rate for step 9 (preheating and SSP). It was demonstrated that this recycling process ensures that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is below the conservatively modelled migration of 0.0481 or 0.0962 μg/kg food, depending on the molar mass of the contaminant substance. Therefore, the Panel concluded that the recycled PET obtained from this process is not 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 hot‐fill. Articles 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.eng
dc.identifier.citationEFSA J. 2025 Dec 11;23(12):e9766. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9766. eCollection 2025 Dec
dc.identifier.doi10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9766
dc.identifier.eissn1831-4732
dc.identifier.pmid41394337
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/10666
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9766
dc.relation.ispartofEFSA Journal
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectZhejiang BORETECH Environmental Engineering Co. LTD
dc.subjectbrtCOMBIPET
dc.subjectFood Contact Materials
dc.subjectPlastic
dc.subjectPoly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)
dc.subjectRecycling Process
dc.subjectSafety Assessment
dc.subjectGenotoxicidade Ambiental
dc.titleSafety assessment of the process brtCOMBIPET used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materialseng
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue12
oaire.citation.startPagee9766
oaire.citation.titleEFSA Journal
oaire.citation.volume23
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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