PMID- 35069884
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231105
IS  - 1831-4732 (Electronic)
IS  - 1831-4732 (Linking)
VI  - 20
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Jan
TI  - Safety assessment of the process Starlinger recoSTAR HDPE FC 1 - PET2PET used to 
      recycle post-consumer HDPE closures into food contact closures.
PG  - e07001
LID - 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7001 [doi]
LID - e07001
AB  - The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) 
      assessed the safety of the recycling process Starlinger recoSTAR HDPE FC 1 - 
      PET2PET. The process is intended to recycle food grade high-density polyethylene 
      (HDPE) closures from post-consumer PET beverage bottle streams to produce 
      recycled HDPE pellets using the technology Starlinger recoSTAR HDPE (FC 1). The 
      recycled pellets are intended to be used at up to 100% for the manufacture of new 
      closures for direct contact with mineral water and other beverages for long-term 
      storage at room temperature. The recycling process comprises the sorting of the 
      HDPE closures from the bottles, their conventional recycling, their pre-drying, 
      their extrusion into pellets and their decontamination in a continuous reactor. 
      The dossier contained insufficient data. Notably, the data provided did not 
      include an adequate description of the process to allow a clear understanding of 
      the main steps and operating parameters of the technology; the data did not allow 
      to demonstrate that the challenge test is representative of the industrial 
      process, hence, that it is suitable for determining the decontamination 
      efficiency of the process; the data did not allow to estimate the residual 
      concentration (C(res)) for HDPE closures from PET beverage bottles. The 
      Panel noted the limited efficiency of the technology to remove contaminants with 
      a molecular weight above 400 Da and which would migrate into water and other 
      beverages. Based on the submitted information, the Panel concluded that the 
      applicant has not demonstrated in an adequately performed challenge test or by 
      other appropriate evidence that the recycling process is able to reduce 
      contamination of the HDPE flakes originating from PET beverage bottles to a 
      concentration that does not pose a risk to human health.
CI  - (c) 2022 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and 
      Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority.
CN  - EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP)
FAU - Lambre, Claude
AU  - Lambre C
FAU - Barat Baviera, Jose Manuel
AU  - Barat Baviera JM
FAU - Bolognesi, Claudia
AU  - Bolognesi C
FAU - Chesson, Andrew
AU  - Chesson A
FAU - Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro
AU  - Cocconcelli PS
FAU - Crebelli, Riccardo
AU  - Crebelli R
FAU - Gott, David Michael
AU  - Gott DM
FAU - Grob, Konrad
AU  - Grob K
FAU - Mengelers, Marcel
AU  - Mengelers M
FAU - Mortensen, Alicja
AU  - Mortensen A
FAU - Riviere, Gilles
AU  - Riviere G
FAU - Steffensen, Inger-Lise
AU  - Steffensen IL
FAU - Tlustos, Christina
AU  - Tlustos C
FAU - Van Loveren, Henk
AU  - Van Loveren H
FAU - Vernis, Laurence
AU  - Vernis L
FAU - Zorn, Holger
AU  - Zorn H
FAU - Dudler, Vincent
AU  - Dudler V
FAU - Milana, Maria Rosaria
AU  - Milana MR
FAU - Papaspyrides, Constantine
AU  - Papaspyrides C
FAU - Tavares Pocas, Maria de Fatima
AU  - Tavares Pocas MF
FAU - Barthelemy, Eric
AU  - Barthelemy E
FAU - Lampi, Evgenia
AU  - Lampi E
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220117
PL  - United States
TA  - EFSA J
JT  - EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority
JID - 101642076
PMC - PMC8762564
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Starlinger recoSTAR
OT  - closure
OT  - criteria
OT  - food contact materials
OT  - plastic
OT  - polyethylene (PE)
OT  - recycling
OT  - safety assessment
EDAT- 2022/01/25 06:00
MHDA- 2022/01/25 06:01
PMCR- 2022/01/17
CRDT- 2022/01/24 08:50
PHST- 2021/11/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/01/24 08:50 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/01/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/01/25 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/01/17 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - EFS27001 [pii]
AID - 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7001 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - EFSA J. 2022 Jan 17;20(1):e07001. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7001. eCollection 2022 
      Jan.