{"id":165736,"date":"2025-07-21T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=165736"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:52:34","slug":"implementation-of-japans-positive-list-confirms-fdca-approval-for-food-contact-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/implementation-of-japans-positive-list-confirms-fdca-approval-for-food-contact-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Implementation of Japan\u2019s \u201cPositive List\u201d Confirms FDCA Approval for Food-Contact Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n
\"\"
\u00a9 Avantium<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, is pleased to share that Japan has fully implemented its Positive List system for food contact plastics as of 1 June 2025. This list, part of the Food Sanitation Law, includes FDCA (2,5-furandicarboxylic acid) as an approved monomer. As a result, PEF (polyethylene furanoate), a plant-based plastic made from FDCA, is now eligible for use in food-contact applications in Japan, where only substances included on the Positive List are permitted. This is an important step forward for sustainable packaging solutions in one of the world\u2019s key markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan introduced its Positive List (PL) system for synthetic resins in 2020 to ensure that only safe, approved substances are used in food-contact materials. The now implemented Positive List system places clear emphasis on the individual components used to produce plastics for food packaging. With FDCA now included on Japan\u2019s Positive List, PEF can be more broadly adopted for sustainable food packaging across the Japanese market. This builds on existing food contact approvals already granted in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cThis is an important milestone for Avantium\u2019s FDCA and PEF,\u201d said Ana Sousa Dias, Manager Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs at Avantium<\/strong>. \u201cThe implementation of the Positive List with FDCA not only validates the safety of our innovative materials, but also paves the way for broader adoption of PEF in food packaging in Japan. It marks an exciting step forward in bringing circular and renewable solutions to one of the world\u2019s most advanced markets.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

About Avantium\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Avantium is a pioneering commercial-stage company focused on renewable & circular polymer materials. Avantium develops and commercialises innovative technologies for the production of materials based on sustainable carbon feedstocks, i.e. carbon from biomass or carbon from the air (CO2<\/sub>). The most advanced technology is the YXY\u00ae<\/sup> Technology that catalytically converts plant-based sugars into FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid), the key building block for the sustainable plastic PEF (polyethylene furanoate). PEF is known under the brand name releaf\u00ae<\/sup>, an EU registered trademark of Avantium. Avantium has successfully demonstrated the YXY\u00ae<\/sup> Technology at its pilot plant in Geleen, the Netherlands, and is in the process of starting the world’s first commercial plant for FDCA in Delfzijl, the Netherlands.  Avantium works in partnership with like-minded companies around the globe to develop revolutionary renewable chemistry solutions from invention to commercial scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avantium\u2019s shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels (symbol: AVTX). Avantium is incorporated in the Euronext Amsterdam SmallCap Index (AScX). Its offices and headquarters are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, is pleased to share that Japan has fully implemented its Positive List system for food contact plastics as of 1 June 2025. This list, part of the Food Sanitation Law, includes FDCA (2,5-furandicarboxylic acid) as an approved monomer. As a result, PEF (polyethylene furanoate), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":165738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Japan introduced its Positive List (PL) system for synthetic resins in 2020 to ensure that only safe, approved substances are used in food-contact materials","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,5847,12251,10416,11761,13465],"supplier":[742],"class_list":["post-165736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioplastics","tag-bioresins","tag-circulareconomy","tag-fdca","tag-pef","supplier-avantium-technologies-bv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165736"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=165736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}