Plastics protect our health and safely shape our modern lives : Come and see for yourself !

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A typical driver’s reaction time is 1 second. Therefore, French authorities impose a 2-second-distance between 2 cars is kept by drivers.
→ The safety factor is 2

Would a usual food contact regulatory safety factor be applied to traffic and road safety, drivers should keep a 100-second-distance between 2 cars !

Part.3 - How the EU ensures the safety of plastics

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Before a consumer can actually use any plastic product, the latter has to go through many tests and regulations that producers must comply with.

For example, when evaluating the safety of a food contact plastic material, authorities assess the toxicity of all its constituents, and then define for each of them an acceptable limit of migration, carefully set with significant safety factors.

The allowed maximum exposure to each constituent can never exceed 1/100th of the tolerable daily intake !

01. Migrations are highly limited and closely monitored

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Before a consumer can actually use any plastic product, the latter has to go through many tests and regulations that producers must comply with.

For example, when evaluating the safety of a food contact plastic material, authorities assess the toxicity of all its constituents, and then define for each of them an acceptable limit of migration, carefully set with significant safety factors.

The allowed maximum exposure to each constituent can never exceed 1/100th of the tolerable daily intake !