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HomeGuidance and criteria for safe recycling of post consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into new food packaging applications
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The development of modern recycling processes allows cleansing and reconditioning of used beverage bottles (Post-Consumer Recycled-Polyethylene Terephthalate: PCR-PET) to be reused as packaging material in direct contact with foodstuffs. This publication gives practical guidelines and reliable criteria for the safe recycling of PCR PET using modern "super clean" technologies and harmonised test protocols so that recycled PET can be reused for food packaging applications meeting food safety and consumer health protection demands. It also summarises the state of the art in PCR PET reprocessing for food packaging from a historical, legal and food safety point of view with short notices an technological aspects. This publication is a partial outcome of project FAIR-CT98-4318 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission, DG-RTD, E.2-Food Quality.
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- Corporate author(s): Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (European Commission) , Fraunhofer Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung (IVV) (DE) , The Coca-Cola Company (USA)
- Personal author(s): Bayer, Forrest ; Welle, Frank ; Franz, Roland
- Themes: Food technology and food safety
- Subject: applied research , food safety , packaging , plastics , product quality , waste recycling
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| ISSN | ISBN 92-894-6776-2 | DOI | Catalogue number KI-57-03-071-EN-C |
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