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Safety assessment of the process Starlinger recoSTAR PET art used to recycle postā€consumer PET into food contact materials

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datacite.subject.fosCiĆŖncias MĆ©dicas::CiĆŖncias da SaĆŗde
datacite.subject.sdg03:SaĆŗde de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorEFSA FCM Panel (EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials)
dc.contributor.authorLambrƩ, 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.authorRiviĆØre, 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 PoƧas, Maria de FƔtima
dc.contributor.authorMarano, Remigio
dc.contributor.authorLampi, Evgenia
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-09T11:39:38Z
dc.date.available2026-01-09T11:39:38Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-02
dc.descriptionEFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials Members: Claude LambrĆ©, Riccardo Crebelli, Maria da Silva, Koni Grob, Evgenia Lampi, Maria Rosaria Milana, Marja Pronk, Gilles RiviĆØre, 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 Starlinger recoSTAR PET art (EU register number RECYC331). The input is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes mainly originating from collected postā€consumer PET containers, with no more than 5% PET from nonā€food consumer applications. The flakes are dried and crystallised (step 2), melted in an extruder (step 3), crystallised (step 4) and treated in a solidā€state polycondensation (SSP) reactor under high temperature and vacuum (step 5). Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that all the four steps are critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process; the SSP being the most relevant for decontamination. The operating parameters to control the efficiency are: the pressure, the temperature, the residence time and gas flow rate. 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 Ī¼g/kg food, depending on the molar mass of a 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 longā€term storage at room temperature or below, with or without hotā€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 Jul 2;23(7):e9491. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9491. eCollection 2025 Jul
dc.identifier.doi10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9491
dc.identifier.issn1831-4732
dc.identifier.pmid40611986
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/10669
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9491
dc.relation.ispartofEFSA Journal
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectStarlinger recoSTAR PET Art
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 Starlinger recoSTAR PET art used to recycle postā€consumer PET into food contact materialseng
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue7
oaire.citation.startPagee9491
oaire.citation.titleEFSA Journal
oaire.citation.volume23
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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