Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

C. Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles which are already in contact with a known food

5.  The simulant or simulants to be used in testing a plastic material article which is already in contact with a known food shall be—

(a) where the known food is a specific food or is within a specific group of foods described in column 2 of the Table to Part IV and, for the purposes of Part IV, a simulant is, or simulants are, specified in relation to that specific food or specific group of foods, the simulant or simulants so specified;

(b) where the known food is neither a specific food nor within a specific group of foods described in the Table to Part IV, the simulant or simulants in column 2 of Table 2 to this Part opposite the description of food in column 1 of that Table which corresponds most closely to the known food.