Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

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

4.  In Schedule 1 (monomers authorised without time limit, monomers authorised up to the end of 2001, monomers authorised up to the end of 1998 and supplementary)–

(a) in Section A of Part I–

(i) in the case of each monomer listed in Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, the item number, PM/REF No, CAS No, name and restriction or specification specified for that monomer in that Part shall be inserted in the appropriate numerical position for that item number,

(ii) in the case of each monomer named in the second column of Part II of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, for the item number for that monomer specified opposite to it in the column headed “Item” there shall be substituted the item number for it specified in the first column (item) of that Part,

(iii) in the case of the monomer Bis (4-isocyanatocyclohexyl) methane (item 43), for the entry for that monomer specified in column 1 (PM/REF/No) there shall be substituted the entry “13560”, and

(iv) in the case of each monomer named in the first column of Part III of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, for the entry for that monomer specified opposite to it in column 4 (restrictions and specifications) there shall be substituted the entry for it specified in the second column (restrictions and specifications) of that Part;

(b) in Section B of Part I, all the entries for the monomers named in Part IV of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be deleted; and

(c) in Part II, at the end of paragraph 4 there shall be inserted the following provisions–

“(22) SML(T) in this case means that the restriction shall not be exceeded by the sum of the migration levels of the substances having PM/REF/Nos. 13620, 36840, 40320 and 87040.

(23) SML(T) in this case means that the restriction shall not be exceeded by the sum of the migration levels of the substances having PM/REF/Nos. 13720 and 40580.

(24) SML(T) in this case means that the restriction shall not be exceeded by the sum of the migration levels of the substances having PM/REF/Nos. 16650 and 51570.

(25) QM(T) in this case means that the restriction shall not be exceeded by the sum of the residual quantities of the substances having PM/REF/Nos. 14950, 15700, 16240, 16570, 16600, 16630, 18640, 19110, 22332, 22420, 22570, 25210, 25240 and 25270.”.