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Safety assessment of the process EREMA Vacurema Basic_Sheet 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 Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM)
dc.contributor.authorLambrƩ, Claude
dc.contributor.authorCrebelli, Riccardo
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Maria da
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.accessioned2026-01-06T16:06:40Z
dc.date.available2026-01-06T16:06:40Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-15
dc.descriptionEFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM) 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 Waegeneer.
dc.description.abstractThe EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM) assessed the safety of the recycling process EREMA Vacurema Basic_Sheet (EU register number RECYC 337). The input is washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes mainly originating from collected postā€consumer PET containers, with below 5% PET from nonā€food consumer applications. The flakes are heated in a continuous flake reactor (step 2) under vacuum before being extruded. Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the step 2 is critical in determining the decontamination efficiency of the process. The operating parameters to control the efficiency are the temperature, the pressure (vacuum) and the residence time. 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 0.156 or 0.312 Ī¼g/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 foodstuffs, excluding drinking water, reconstituted infant formula and human milk, and used 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 Dec 15;23(12):e9765. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9765. eCollection 2025 Dec
dc.identifier.doi10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9765
dc.identifier.eissn1831-4732
dc.identifier.pmid41404626
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/10667
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9765
dc.relation.ispartofEFSA Journal
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEREMA Vacurema Basic_Sheet
dc.subjectFood Contact Materials
dc.subjectPlastic
dc.subjectPoly(ethylene terephthalate)
dc.subjectPET
dc.subjectRecycling Process
dc.subjectSafety Assessment
dc.subjectGenotoxicidade Ambiental
dc.titleSafety assessment of the process EREMA Vacurema Basic_Sheet used to recycle postā€consumer PET into food contact materialseng
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue12
oaire.citation.startPagee9765
oaire.citation.titleEFSA Journal
oaire.citation.volume23
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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