SCHEDULE 5Provisions Applicable when Testing Compliance with the Migration Limits

Special provisions relating to overall migration7

1

Any plastic material or article which exceeds its overall migration limit by an amount not exceeding the analytical tolerance specified in sub-paragraph (2) shall be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations not to exceed its overall migration limit.

2

The following analytical tolerances shall be applied for limits of overall migration—

a

20 mg/kg or, as the case may be, 3 milligrams per square decimetre in migration tests using as a simulant rectified olive oil or substitutes;

b

12mg/kg or, as the case may be, 2 milligrams per square decimetre in migration tests using other simulants referred to in Schedule 6.