The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998

PART VII Alternative Fat Tests for Overall and Specific Migration

1.  Subject to paragraph 2 of this Part of this Schedule the conditions which must be fulfilled to allow the result of either test specified in paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule to be used as an alternative to the result of a migration test carried out under Part III of this Schedule 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 simulant D; and

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

2.  The condition in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1 of this Part of this Schedule does not have to be fulfilled if it can be shown on the basis of the result of scientific experiment that the values obtained in either of the tests specified in paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule are equal to or greater than those obtained in any of the migration tests specified in Part III of this Schedule.

3.  The migration tests referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Part of this Schedule are—

(a) a test carried out using volatile media including isooctane, ethanol 95%, other volatile solvents or a mixture of solvents at such contact conditions as would result in values equal to or greater than those obtained in a test using simulant D;

(b) other tests using media having a very strong extraction power under very severe test conditions where, on the basis of scientific evidence, it is generally recognised that the results using these tests are equal to or higher than those obtained in a test using simulant D.