date:Oct 18, 2013
containers, mainly bottles, containing no more than 5 % of PET from non-food consumer applications. Through this process, washed and dried PET flakes are extruded into pellets, crystallised and subsequently further decontaminated in a continuous countercurrent reactor under high temperature and inert gas flow. Having examined the challenge tests provided, the Panel concluded that the fourth step, the decontamination in continuous countercurrent reactor for solid state polymerisation (SSP) is the