Mineral Oil
Recycled paperboard is an important component of an environmentally responsible and sustainable future that can and should be used in a wide number of applications. Here you will be able to keep up with the most pressing issues related to the RPTA and recycled paperboard.
Currently food packaging and mineral oil is of an utmost priority. The safety of recycled paperboard food packaging is of the utmost priority to the paperboard industry.
Read more here about RPTA and Mineral Oil:
- RPTA Mineral Oil Issue Paper
- Statement on U.K. Food Standards Agency Testing, December 15, 2011
- Critical Analysis of Recent European Publications on Mineral Oil
- UK Food Standards Agency
- FDA's comments on mineral oil in Food Chemical News, March 18, 2011
- North American Response to Draft German Regulation of Mineral Oil in Recycled Paperboard, submitted on behalf of the industry by Graphic Packaging International, submitted June 25, 2013
LATEST NEWS
RPTA Certifies Member Mills After Rigorous Auditing Process
In 2018 the RPTA completed a rigorous, two-year auditing process by NSF of RPTA member mills, assuring brand owners that products produced by certified RPTA member companies are suited for direct food contact packaging applications. For more information, click here.
For a complete list of certified mills, click here.
RPTA webinar - Consistency is Often Not Consistent - Best Practices/Current Technologies
Recording now available for download to RPTA members. To access recording - Click Here
UPCOMING EVENTS
2019 Industry Profile Study
Registration for the 2019 RPTA Industry Profile Study, the annual physical properties benchmarking study is underway. RPTA members who plan to register can find information on the 2019 study including the registration form here.
2019 Production-Technical Seminar
Registration Is Now Open!
To register, click here. The RPTA Production Technical Seminar will be co-located with TAPPI's PaperCon in 2019. The 2019 conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN with the RPTA sessions taking place on May 6-7, 2019. More information on this event can be found here.