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Sustainable packaging: Telles gets FDA clearance for Mirel bioplastics

-- Packaging Digest, 5/12/2010 11:57:19 AM

Metabolix, Inc. and Archer Daniels Midland Company announced that Telles received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for the formulated products Mirel F1005 and F1006, food contact injection molding grades for use in food contact applications. The FDA accepted the submitted Telles notification, and clearance is effective as of May 11, 2010.

Mirel F1005 and F1006 grades are now cleared for use in non-alcoholic food contact applications. The conditions of use range from frozen food storage to boiling water up to 212°F, including microwave reheating. Mirel is suitable for a wide range of injection molded food service and packaging applications including caps and closures, and disposable items such as forks, spoons, knives, tubs, trays, and hot cup lids. The clearance also includes products such as house-wares, cosmetics and medical packaging.

“With the Clinton plant now in operation, and this FDA clearance, we now can move forward with brand owners’ requests to use Mirel in their injection molded food packaging applications,” stated Richard Eno, CEO of Metabolix. “These applications, which currently consume billions of pounds of petroleum-based polymers per year, offer considerable opportunity for growth of our biobased, biodegradable polymer, Mirel.”

Telles engaged Intertek to help develop the full dossier for this food notification submission. Intertek is a leading provider of quality and safety solutions serving a wide range of industries around the world.

SOURCE: Metabolix, Inc.

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