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Bamboo cups are popular as reusable cup for coffee and tea. When drinking hot beverages from bamboo cups, there is a risk that formaldehyde is released into the drink. The current limit can be exceeded. Furthermore, bamboo is not authorised as part of plastic cups. Therefore, BuRO advises the minister for Medical Care and Sport, amongst other things, to inform consumers about this finding and the NVWA to ban these types of food contact materials from the market.

To the Minister for Medical Care and Sport

The current SML for formaldehyde (15 mg/kg) offers insufficient protection for children’s tableware. The necessary action should be taken to adjust this SML so that it offers sufficient protection.

To the Inspector-General of the NVWA

As long as there is no new SML, action should be taken against violations of the current SML for formaldehyde (15 mg/kg) and melamine (2.5 mg/kg) in FCM made of melamine resin. Moreover, consumer articles for young children should be tested for the migration of melamine and formaldehyde. The risks of bamboo cups should be actively communicated on the NVWA website. Plastic FCM containing the unauthorised additives bamboo and/corn should be banned from the Dutch market.

Background

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has recently conducted a market study to investigate the migration of formaldehyde from bamboo cups. Since a number of excessive violations of the migration limit for formaldehyde were found, the Enforcement Directorate of the NVWA requested the Office for Risk Assessment & Research (BuRO) for its advice and posed the following questions.

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Does bamboo have carcinogens?

The most common binding agent used in processing bamboo fibres is melamine-formaldehyde resin, a plastic which, if it is of poor quality, releases toxic components that are harmful to the kidneys (melamine) and carcinogenic (formaldehyde).

europarl.europa.eu - Harmful substances in bamboo eating utensils | E-000642/2020

Harmful substances in bamboo eating utensils 4.2.2020 Answer in writing

Question for written answer E-000642/2020

to the Commission

Rule 138

Cindy Franssen (PPE)

Plastic eating utensils, such as plates, cups, cutlery and containers (which are typically disposable) are increasingly being replaced by bamboo products. Of late, there have been more and more recalls of bamboo eating utensils, for example in France, Germany, Belgium and Denmark, particularly in the case of products intended for babies and children (plates, cups, picnic utensils and lunch boxes). Consumer organisations in these countries are therefore increasingly concerned about the safety of these products on public health grounds. Austria has already banned them. The most common binding agent used in processing bamboo fibres is melamine-formaldehyde resin, a plastic which, if it is of poor quality, releases toxic components that are harmful to the kidneys (melamine) and carcinogenic (formaldehyde). Despite this, Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food contains no EU rules on the processing of bamboo powder.