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Commission Directive 2002/72/EC (repealed)Show full title
Commission Directive 2002/72/EC of 6 August 2002 relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)
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[X1Special provisions relating to overall migration U.K.
6. If the aqueous simulants specified in Directives 82/711/EEC and 85/572/EEC are used, the analytical determination of the total quantity of substances released by the sample may be carried out by evaporation of the simulant and weighing of the residue. U.K.
If rectified olive oil or any of its substitutes is used, the procedure given below may be followed.
The sample of the material or article is weighed before and after contact with the simulant. The simulant absorbed by the sample is extracted and determined quantitatively. The quantity of simulant found is subtracted from the weight of the sample measured after contact with the simulant. The difference between the initial and corrected final weights represents the overall migration of the sample examined.
Where a material or article is intended to come into repeated contact with foodstuffs and it is technically impossible to carry out the test described in paragraph 5, modifications to that test are acceptable, provided that they enable the level of migration occurring during the third test to be determined. One of these possible modifications is described below.
The test is carried out on three identical samples of the material or article. One of these shall be subjected to the appropriate test and the overall migration determined (M 1 ). The second and third samples shall be subjected to the same conditions of temperature but the period of contact shall be two and three times that specified and overall migration determined in each case (M 2 and M 3 , respectively).
The material or article shall be deemed to be in compliance provided that either M 1 or M 3 - M 2 does not exceed the overall migration limit.
7. A material or article that exceeds the overall migration limit by an amount not greater than the analytical tolerance mentioned below should therefore be deemed to be in compliance with this Directive. U.K.
The following analytical tolerances have been observed:
20 mg/kg or 3 mg/dm 2 in migration tests using rectified olive oil or substitutes,
12 mg/kg or 2 mg/dm 2 in migration tests using the other simulants referred to in Directives 82/711/EEC and 85/572/EEC.
8. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 3(2) of Directive 82/711/EEC, migration tests using rectified olive oil or substitutes shall not be carried out to check compliance with the overall migration limit in cases where there is conclusive proof that the specified analytical method is inadequate from a technical standpoint. U.K.
In any such case, for substances exempt from specific migration limits or other restrictions in the list provided in Annex II, a generic specific migration limit of 60 mg/kg or 10 mg/dm 2 , according to the case, is applied. However, the sum of all specific migrations determined shall not exceed the overall migration limit.]
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