LINPAC Packaging welcomes new EU Scientific Opinion on its recycling processes: reduces carbon footprint by up to 70% when compared to virgin PET
11/18/2013
LINPAC Packaging has welcomed the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) decision to give an official positive opinion regarding the Super-cleaning process used in its factories in Spain, Italy, and Germany. They all are based on the same Starlinger Decon technology.
The input of all the processes is hot caustic washed and dried PET flakes originating from collected post-consumer PET containers, mainly bottles and trays, containing no more than 5 % of PET from non-food consumer applications. Through this technology washed and dried PET flakes are pre-heated in a continuous reactor at high temperature under vacuum and gas flow
Under these conditions it was demonstrated that the recycling processes under evaluation, using the Starlinger Decon technology, are able to ensure that the level of migration of potential unknown contaminants into food is below a conservatively modelled migration of 0.1 ìg/kg food.
The Panel concluded that the recycled PET obtained from these processes intended to be used at 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. |