Tag: Food-contact rPET

India: Seizure of 18,000 boxes of rPET liquor bottles at Diageo highlights compliance risks for food safety

Aug 11, 2026

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by

Manvendra Chauhan

in PET

Rising recycled content targets for plastic packaging to support demand India’s food-contact rPET capacity reaches 439,000 t/year in FY’26 India’s food-contact recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) market is coming under greater compliance focus after authorities seized around 18,000 boxes of PET liquor bottles at a Diageo facility in Bengaluru on 11 August. Inspectors reportedly found that…