Safety assessment of the process EREMA Vacurema Basic used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials
EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM), Claude Lambré, Riccardo Crebelli, Maria da Silva, Koni Grob, Maria Rosaria Milana, Marja Pronk, Gilles Rivière, Mario Ščetar, Georgios Theodoridis, Els Van Hoeck, Nadia Waegeneers, Vincent Dudler, Constantine Papaspyrides, Maria de Fátima Tavares Poças, Re · 2025
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Description
The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials judges a recycling process that turns used PET bottles back into food-grade plastic. Their twenty twenty-five opinion covers the EREMA Vacurema Basic process. The input is washed, dried flakes from collected drink containers, with a small share from non-food uses.
Flakes are heated in a reactor under vacuum, then extruded into new material. A challenge test, where dirtied flakes were run through, set how well the process cleans. The panel found the hot vacuum step to be the make-or-break stage. Heat, pressure, and time in that step must stay in bounds. Passing this bar lets recycled PET touch food again in Europe.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM), Claude Lambré, Riccardo Crebelli, Maria da Silva, Koni Grob, Maria Rosaria Milana, Marja Pronk, Gilles Rivière, Mario Ščetar, Georgios Theodoridis, Els Van Hoeck, Nadia Waegeneers, Vincent Dudler, Constantine Papaspyrides, Maria de Fátima Tavares Poças, Re |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |