Safety assessment of the process Bandera Twin 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, Ester Heath, 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, Katharina Volk, Evgenia Lampi · 2026
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Description
Claude Lambré chaired an EFSA panel that judged a plastic recycling method for food packaging in a 2026 safety opinion. The Bandera Twin process, listed as RECYC341, starts with washed flakes from used PET bottles, with at most 5% from non-food uses.
Flakes pass through hot extrusion under vacuum, named as the key cleaning step in the assessment. Challenge testing checked temperature, pressure and one further controlled factor against movement of unknown contaminants into food. The panel found the output acceptable for stated uses, including a capped share for drinking water containers stored at room temperature.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM), Claude Lambré, Riccardo Crebelli, Maria da Silva, Koni Grob, Ester Heath, 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, Katharina Volk, Evgenia Lampi |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37603 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |