The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 Preliminary

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2 Requirements for Materials and Articles

   1. 3. Restriction on the use, sale or import of plastic materials and articles

   2. 4. Restriction on the use of monomers in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles

   3. 5. Restriction on the use of additives in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles

   4. 6. Required standard for non-migration of constituents of monomers

   5. 7. Required standard for non-migration of constituents of additives

   6. 8. Required standard for products obtained by bacterial fermentation

   7. 9. Required standards relating to overall migration limits

   8. 10. Required standard for non-migration of primary aromatic amines

   9. 11. Required standard relating to plastic multi-layer materials and articles

   10. 12. Provisions relating to the use of certain epoxy derivatives (BADGE, BDGE and NOGE)

   11. 13. Method of testing the capability of plastic materials or articles to transfer constituents, and methods of analysis

   12. 14. Labelling and documentation

4. PART 3 Execution and Enforcement

   1. 15. Enforcement

   2. 16. Offences and Penalties

   3. 17. Time limit for prosecutions

   4. 18. Offences due to the act or default of a third party

   5. 19. Defence of exercising due diligence etc

   6. 20. Transitional defence relating to PVC gaskets containing epoxidised soybean oil

   7. 21. Other transitional defences and savings

   8. 22. Procedure where a sample is to be analysed

   9. 23. Secondary analysis by the Government Chemist

5. PART 4 Application for Authorisation

   1. 24. Applications for inclusion of an additive in the Community list of authorised additives

6. PART 5 General and Supplementary

   1. 25. Application of provisions of the Order

   2. 26. Amendments to the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

   3. 27. Revocations

7. Signature

8. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      Supplementary provisions relating to Annexes II and III

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Provisions Applicable when Testing Compliance with the Migration Limits

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      Overall and Specific Migration Testing Using Food Simulants

      1. PART 1 Basic Rules

      2. PART 2 Food Simulants to be used in Migration Testing

      3. PART 3 Selection of Food Simulants

      4. PART 4 Simulants to be used in relation to a Specific Food or Group of Foods

      5. PART 5 Migration Test Conditions (Times and Temperatures)

      6. PART 6 Substitute Fat Test for Overall and Specific Migration

      7. PART 7 Alternative Fat Tests for Overall and Specific Migration

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      Information to be contained in a declaration of compliance

9. Explanatory Note