Container glass industry welcomes green claim proposal
Read moreBrussels, 6 October 2016
Boosting Recycling Rates Yes – But Not at Expense of Consumer Safety, says European Parliament
Brussels, 06/10/2016
The European Container Glass Federation – FEVE – welcomes the European Parliament’s report on Food Contact Materials (FCM) (1) which calls for ‘better synergies between the Framework Regulation on FCMs and the Circular Economy’. The report points out the need to safeguard consumer safety by making sure that materials in contact with food such as packaging are safe for health, whether or not they are produced with recycled materials.
The circular economy package, calling for higher recycling rates for all packaging materials, can pose a safety challenge for food contact materials. The future recycling targets for all materials under the Packaging & Packaging Waste Directive (94/62/EC) must be accompanied by adequate control measures to ensure this safety aspect, but also to avoid that the use or reuse of FCMs made from recycled products leads to a higher number of contaminants and/or residues in the final product.
In order to guarantee safety while increasing recycling rates, a stronger traceability of chemicals intentionally used in the production of materials in contact with food is needed. A robust and harmonized assessment of the inherent migration properties of all recycled materials in contact with food is essential for consumers to fully back the principles of the circular economy. “We have no problem in recycling more and more glass because permanent and inert materials allow for this” – states Adeline Farrelly, FEVE Secretary General. “That is one of the reasons why the industry is investing in closed loop recycling”.
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