PET | REGULATION
New EU authorisation for food-contact processes
A new EU regulation is significant for recycling companies in the food packaging sector, writes Peter Mapleston
New European Union rules on the safety of recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food came into force in October. Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1616 replaces Regulation (EC) 282/2008. According to the Directorate General for Health
and Food Safety, the regulation “makes it possible to authorise recycling processes for manufacturing safe recycled plastic materials for use in food packaging. It will also help the recycling industry establish suitable ways for recycling plastics that presently cannot be recycled into food packaging.” “In addition, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will have a clearer basis to evaluate the
suitability of recycling technologies and the safety of the recycled plastic in food packaging manufac- tured with processes using these technologies.” The Regulation will allow granting individual
authorisations for more than 200 mechanical PET recycling processes, says the DG. The Regulation has various provisions relating especially to PET recycling processes: Processes subject to an application received by
EFSA before 10 July 2023 may continue after that date to be used by recyclers without authorisation, until they are notified of a decision on their authorisation; The first of those authorisation decisions,
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