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FDA denies call for phthalate food ban


Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied a petition calling on it to reconsider an earlier decision not to ban the use of eight ortho-phthalate plasticisers in food contact applications and not to revoke sanctioned uses for five. The reconsideration petition had been filed by Washington, DC, US-based public interest legal group Earthjustice and referred to the FDA’s earlier denial of a citizen petition submitted in 2016 by Earthjustice and a number of other groups, including the Center for Food Safety, Center for Environmental Health, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Con- sumer Federation of America, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. That original petition had called on the agency to ban the use of eight ortho-phthalate plasticisers —DIBP, DBP, BBP, DCHP, DnHP, DIOP, DEHP and DiNP — in all food contact applications and to remove five prior-sanctioned uses for BPBG, DEP,


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The agency was responding to a petition from legal group Earthjustice


EPEG, DEHP and DIOP. The FDA said in its response to the


reconsideration petition that it had evaluated it and concluded that it did not provide a basis for modifying its original decision. “Our response explains that we


adequately considered relevant information and views contained in the administrative record when


from the middle of the year.” However, Russia’s aggression intensified the challenge with spikes in gas prices at levels not seen previously. It also cut the company off from its supply of propylene in Ukraine. “This was the first and most challenging problem of last year. Within a month, we constructed an alternative system for securing the Oxoplast Business Unit in basic raw material and implemented a mechanism for short-term planning and operation that is flexible and adapted to the conditions we face,” Budner says. The Pro-Environment Oxo portfolio of products


from Sweden’s Perstorp includes plasticisers, polyols, acids, and alcohols made from mass balanced renewable or recycled raw materials. The company’s Pro-Environment products and mass balance method, as well as its greenhouse gas calculations, are ISCC Plus certified. The company’s portfolio of plasticisers based on


ISCC Plus certified renewable raw materials include its Pevalen Pro non-phthalate polyol ester material, which was launched in 2014 and is based on 8% or 36% renewable carbon content, and its Emoltene 100 Pro C10 general-purpose grade with 14%


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responding to the original citizen petition,” it said. “Additionally, we have considered the information submitted in the reconsideration petition and other relevant informa- tion in the administrative record. The FDA’s decision to deny the original petition remains unchanged.” � www.fda.gov � www.earthjustice.org


renewable carbon content produced using biogas and launched in 2020. Last year Perstorp announced the development


of a partly bio-based 2-Ethylhexanol (2-EH). 2-EH is widely used in the production of plasticisers for flexible vinyl and acrylate applications, according to Magnus Hindsö, Business Manager for the company’s Pro-Environment OXO portfolio. The new 2-EH is chemically identical to its fossil-based counterpart but offers the benefit of a reduced carbon footprint and lower CO2


emissions. The


company says there is no trade-off in terms of performance and the grade can be used as a drop-in replacement in existing formulations.


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