Is masterbatches safe material to produce plastics for human?

by Tran Hoa Marketing

Masterbatches is being considered as a new revolution for the plastic industry because plastic products are always around us and contribute significantly to human life today. However, many afraid that plastics products made from masterbatches can be harmful to human health? So how do I know if that masterbatch material is harmful or not? This articles will discuss about this concern by exploring the origin of this materials.

What common ingredients is used to produce Masterbatch?

It can be said that masterbatches is made mostly from primary plastic including PE, PP, PS, ...The reason these materials are preferred since it not contain any toxic that is suitable for producing food and drink packagings such as trays , box, glass, ... As for PVC, people do not tend to use it to produce food plastic products because PVC masterbatch contains chlorine-based compounds, and when this compound experience oxidize process, this will create bad effects to human health. Although PVC is not applied to the production of food boxes, it is still used to produce water pipes.

In order to identify each kind of primary plastic that produce masterbatches, people often do an experiment with burning fire, if it do not release any burning smell, so it is PP, HDPE and PE. But if you see a fire with black smoke and a burning smell, it must be PET and ABS. As for PVC, this resin will not burn under fire (because it contains Clo content). In addition, there is a method to know the product has harmful ingredient to human or not. Particularly, the weight of product contain toxic is often heavy and easy to sink to the water, in contrast, the products is light and easy to float on water tend to safe to human health.

The right way to use plastic products made from masterbatches?

If we use plastic products made from masterbatches properly, the problem will not be as much harmful as people often think. But if we use it in the wrong way, the effects can be very serious. Many people keep use repeatedly plastics packaging such as old water bottles, ...you will see that the color of product is gradually changing and turning into dark color, and if you continue to do that, the plastic products will produce more toxic substances.

Each type of masterbatches from primary plastic has different physical properties, it requires a certain basic understanding to distinguish and use them properly. We should use PET bottles for products like household, plastic, such as plastic bottles containing cooking oil, fish sauce, medicinal alcohol. And using PE on producing bottles of milk, soft drinks and some other liquid foods.