Polymer Comply Europe to help train auditors

Polymer Comply Europe (PCE), a service company of the European Plastics Converters (EuPC), has announced plans to co-organize training sessions for national hygiene auditors for auditing plastic recycling processes involved in food contact applications.

To accomplish this, PCE will hold a number of three-day training sessions called “Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF). The sessions will be organized under the European Commission and will take place six times throughout 2019 and 2020.

BTSF is an EC initiative aimed at organizing an EU-wide training strategy in the areas of food law, feed law, animal health and animal welfare rules, as well as plant health rules. The upcoming training series will focus specifically on aspects of mechanical recycling of plastics intended to come into direct contact with foodstuffs. The national auditors of the EU member states will also about the regulatory background, as well as practical implications and examples of how the recycling facilities operate.

PCE will organize the part of the training where participants visit a recycling facility and receive the opportunity to see the entire recycling process. The training sessions will take place in Germany, Italy and Austria.

The auditing of plastic recycling processes for food contact will be one of the topics of the European Food Contact Plastics Seminar, scheduled to take place April 11-12, 2019, in Brussels.