The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2008 No. 127

SCHEDULE 3 Overall and Specific Migration Testing Using Food Simulants

PART 7 Alternative Fat Tests for Overall and Specific Migration

1.  Subject to paragraph 2 of this Part the conditions which must be fulfilled to allow the result of either test specified in paragraph 3 to be used as an alternative to the result of a migration test carried out under Part 3 are that–

(a) the result obtained in a “comparison test” shows that the values are equal to or greater than those obtained in the test with stimulant D; and

(b) the migration occurring in either test specified in paragraph 3 does not, after application of the appropriate reduction factor, exceed the appropriate migration limit.