India's Green Leap: Food-Grade rPET Regulations Pave Way for Sustainable Packaging
India has taken a giant leap towards reducing its environmental footprint with the introduction of food-grade rPET regulations by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India FSSAI This move is expected to revolutionize the packaging industry by promoting the use of recycled plastics in food contact materials The guidelines permit the use of rPET in food packaging provided it meets stringent decontamination and safety benchmarks paving the way for the responsible use of post-consumer PET bottles to manufacture new food-grade containers What Does This Mean for the Packaging Industry The FSSAI guidelines apply exclusively to recycling processes that transform post-consumer food-grade PET into Food Contact Material-rPET FCM-rPET This approach guarantees that materials reintroduced into the food supply chain meet strict safety and performance standards The approved recycling processes include advanced technologies with validated decontamination steps such as - Super-clean mechanical recycling A process that ensures the removal of contaminants
