《科学委员会/科学小组的意见: 玻璃光纤施胶剂》

  • 来源专题:食物与营养
  • 编译者: xinning
  • 发布时间:2015-07-28
  • Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to review Commission proposals for classification of the substances used as sizing agents and provide an opinion on whether or not the proposed classifications could imply an unacceptable risk to human health. Glass fibre-reinforced plastics are composite materials made of a polymer matrix reinforced with glass fibres. The glass fibres therein are coated with a surface treatment (‘sizing agent’) to hold individual filaments together and to promote adherence to the polymer matrix. Glass fibre-reinforced plastic is covered by Regulation (EU) No 10/2011, which stipulates that substances used for its manufacture should be listed in the Union List. From January 2016, the Plastics Regulation will also apply to glass fibre-sizing agents, and these substances shall be included in the Union List. On the basis of the low migration from glass fibre-reinforced plastics and the low consumer exposure expected, the CEF Panel does not expect any particular health risks from sizing agents compared with other plastics. For substances classed as coupling agents and for the substances considered polymer production aids, aids to polymerisation or solvents used to make plastics, any use of glass fibre-reinforced plastics does not seem to merit deviation from risk management decisions that were taken earlier.

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