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Board Resolution RDC No. 20 approving the Technical Regulation on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) post-consumer recycled food packaging (PET-PCR food) intended to come into contact with food.

Country/Territory
Brazil
Document type
Regulation
Date
2008
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Access-to-information Packaging/labelling Food additives Food quality control/food safety Procedural matters Registration Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings International trade Classification/declassification
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic
Entry into force notes
This Resolution enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Resolution approves the Technical Regulation on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) post-consumer recycled food packaging (PET-PCR for food use) intended to come into contact with food. The Regulation establishes the general requirements and criteria for the evaluation, approval/authorization and registration of PET packaging made with variable proportions of virgin PET (for food use) and post-consumer recycled decontaminated PET (for food use), intended to come into contact with food. This Regulation applies to final products (PET-PCR food packaging), and raw material (PET-PCR for food use).

Full text
Portuguese
Website
portal.anvisa.gov.br