Addivant earns formal food-contact approval in Canada
Addivant, the world’s leading supplier of liquid phosphite antioxidants for plastics, announced that its nonylphenol-free stabilizer, WESTON 705, has received a letter of no objection from the Bureau of Chemical Safety within Health Canada’s Food Directorate allowing the material to be used in a broad range of food-contact applications.
This latest authorization expends further WESTON 705’s usability in food-contact materials and is based on its recent U.S. FDA approval. It covers the use of WESTON 705 at levels up to 2000 ppm in linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) in contact with all types of food at temperatures up to 121 deg. C. These conditions cover the vast majority of packaging applications and allow for a ubiquitous and flexible usage of WESTON 705 in food-contact packaging.