Aaron Industries’ recycled resins receive FDA letter of nonobjection

Aaron Industries Corp., Leominster, Massachusetts, says it has received a letter of no objection from the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition for its recycling process to produce a blended postconsumer recycled polypropylene (PP) and postconsumer high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and a postindustrial PP material that is suitable for food contact.

The finished blended PP and HDPE material is intended for use at levels up to 100 percent recycled content in manufacturing single use food-contact articles, such as disposable cutlery and trays, caps, closures, and lids for food service.  The finished articles may contact all food types under Conditions of Use C through G:

• hot filled or pasteurized above 150 F;
• hot filled or pasteurized below 150 F;
• room-temperature filled and stored (no thermal treatment in the container);
• refrigerated storage (no thermal treatment in the container); and
• frozen storage (no thermal treatment in the container).

“This letter of no objection memorializes Aaron’s commitment to provide our customers innovative solutions to their recycled content challenges at attractive price points,” says Robert M. Tocci, vice president of Aaron Industries.

Aaron’s latest food-contact compound, commercially referred to as ARPP200-NOL, began production and was available for distribution Nov. 1.