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rePAPER’s environmentally friendly coatings RP-series are now confirmed to be compliant with GB standards, National Food Safety Standard in China. Now, RP-series’ safety being proven in China along with the EU, the US, and Japan, we are ready to leap high for the Chinese market. First, we will check about the Chinese national standards, GB in more detail?   China’s New National Standards System, GB GB, required for all the products in China, are mandatory national standards. They are the standards to evaluate a product’s safety or suitability for its functions, which is equivalent to Korea Standards(KS). GB are China’s distinctive regulations mainly corresponding to European or the United States’ testing methods and standards and a product is tested at official testing institutions, CNAS or CMA. GB standards are different from internationally used regulations that they act as Technical Barriers to Trade. It is a kind of non-tariff barriers, protectionism, which is the economic poli...

  On July 31 st , the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified certain types of PFAS to be highly hazardous and decided to phase out the production and use of the material in the US. Let’s find out why the organization disapproves PFAS and a safe food packaging alternative rePAPER suggests. “Forever Chemical” PFAS, Accumulated in Our Bodies PFCs (Poly- and Per-fluorinated Compounds) refer to the group of materials which their hydrogen in hydrocarbon is substituted to fluorine. Among PFCs, PFAS(Per– and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) has been widely used from the surface coating for cookware, surgical gowns and drapes, cell phones, semiconductor, low-emission vehicles, clothing, furniture to fast food and take-out food packaging. However, certain types of PFAS such as PFOA and PFOS had already been banned in the US market due to their notorious effects on humans, causing hormone changes, increased cholesterol, weakened the immune system, certain types of cancer and low birt...

  Have you heard of the movie, “Dark Waters”? Inspired by a true story, the movie talks about how dangerous PFCs(Per- and polyfluoro compounds) could be. It starts with 190 milk cows dying around the town where one of the major chemical manufacturing companies, DuPont, is located. People suffer from diseases for no apparent reason. Later, it turns out that they are related to PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic Acid), a harmful kind of PFCs, secretly released from the plant. Finding out the truth, Robert Bilott, an attorney of the case, started to fight for the case for 20 years since 1998 and finally had DuPont make reparations of $671 million.   PFCs(fluoropolymer), Carcinogen That Might Be Around Us All the Time PFCs are compounds that all – or some parts- of hydrogen in hydrocarbons are substituted for fluorine. They are used widely from various industry fields such as firefighting foams and cleaning in semiconductor manufacturing plants to consumer products like cookware, food pa...

  A giant waste land floating in Pacific ocean called GPGP(Great Pacific Garbage Patch) discovered in 1997 by a yacht player put the world in shock. Spotted the marine creatures suffering from the waste flown into the ocean, it became a wake-up call for the generation. 2020 as a starting point, a ‘Plastic-free Movement’ occurred in every country and industry. Green marketing and practices have been the main issues; hotels replace their amenities to bulk dispensers and encourage their customers to use reusable cups. The fashion industries produce items made of recycled materials.   The food packaging industry also actively started developing and applying environmentally friendly packaging that are recyclable and compostable instead of conventional plastics. The painful video clip of a turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril in Costa Rica triggered the plastic-free movement around the world and a plastic straw became the first target to be eliminated. For the busine...