The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2012

18.—(1) Materials and articles, other than those materials and articles controlled by Regulation 10/2011, which are manufactured with vinyl chloride polymers or copolymers—

(a) must not contain vinyl chloride monomer in a quantity exceeding 1 milligram per kilogram of the material or article; and

(b) must be manufactured in such a way that they do not transfer to foods with which they are in contact any quantity of vinyl chloride exceeding 0.01 milligrams of vinyl chloride per kilogram of food.

(2) No person may—

(a) place on the market; or

(b) use in the course of a business in connection with the storage, preparation, packaging, selling or service of food,

any material or article that does not comply with paragraph (1).

[F1 (3) The method of analysis used for checking compliance with paragraph (1) must comply with the criteria set out in paragraphs (4), (5) and (6).

(4) The level of vinyl chloride in materials and articles and the level of vinyl chloride released by materials and articles to foodstuffs are determined by means of gas-phase chromatography using the ‘headspace’ method.

(5) For the purposes of determining vinyl chloride released by materials and articles to foodstuffs, the detection limit is 0.01 milligrams of vinyl chloride per kilogram of food.

(6) Vinyl chloride released by materials and articles to foodstuffs is in principle determined in the foodstuffs. When the determination in certain foodstuffs is shown to be impossible for technical reasons, a food authority may permit determination by simulants for these particular foodstuffs.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 18(3)-(6) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Regulated Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/425), regs. 1(3), 3(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)