|
 |
|
Responsible for the
content:
Initiative PVC-free
Closures
c/o !Wir: Kommunikation
und
Unternehmensberatung GmbH
Frau Dagmar Schumann
Mühlenkamp 4
22303 Hamburg / Germany
tel.: +49 40 279 24 02
fax: +49 40 270 39 75
email: dagmar.schumann@wirkomm.de |
|
Deutsch |
| |
 |
It was covered by ÖKO-Test:
"ÖKO-TEST has long criticized lid closures containing PVC. Not only
because PVC pollutes the environment but also because it integrates
plasticizers which can migrate into food. But now there is a PVC-free
lid alternative available." |
|
|
In its 9/2011 issue, "Schrot & Korn" included an article on the issue
of food packaging: "Meanwhile there are alternatives to seals
containing PVC", quoting Zwergenwiese, among others: "We have been
wanting PVC-free lids for decades ... and this is what we've ordered." |
|
|
|
Where's the
positive part? asks the editor of the Greenpeace magazine in their
special edition "Food from A to Z". This was a reference to German
writer Erich Kästner who once posed this question, answering "Yes, the
devil knows what's happened to it!". "There's plenty that's positive
in our Food Special..." he goes on to say, and he's right. Alongside a
great deal of scandalous news the 84-page magazine also includes many
examples of gratifying developments. The article on packaging "Looks
good on the outside but inside is horrible - points out that lids and
cartons contain large amounts of chemicals which can get into the
food. |
|
|
|
The lid was a
reason for German consumer magazine ÖKO-Test (9/12) to take another
close look at the herbed olives produced by Dittmann Feinkost. Quote:
"Because they have a blue ring that says PVC-free seal. So at last it
looks like there's a manufacturer who's managed to bring jars without
PVC in the lids onto the market. We had that tested in the lab. And
indeed, no PVC/PVDC/chlorinated plastics were detected in the lid. And
the labs that we contracted did not find any other dubious substances
in the lid either." |
|
|
|
The
internet-platform "Kochen & Kuchen - Das Küchen College" reported
recently the topic PVC-free closures to be on the march: "Things are
progressing. More and more food manufacturers now choose PVC-free
sealants.
|
|
|
|
Foods are
often packed expensively. This can not only grow the piles of rubbish
- also a lot of chemicals be hiding in closures and boxes that
migrates into food and will be swallowed.
Packaging protects
our food - but are themselves often a source of undesirable substances.
"Probably 100,000 substances migrate from packaging into food"
estimates Konrad Grob, a leading european analyst for packaging.
read more <Ger.> |
PROVALIN® is a
registered trademark of ACTEGA, Bremen
BLUESEAL® is a
registered trademark of PANO, Itzehoe
PROVALIN®. The PVC-free Solution by ACTEGA
www.provalin.com
|
