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

Food safety

Food standards

Public order, justice and rights

Food legislation

Food additives

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Government Printer for Northern Ireland

2016-06-30

FOOD

These Regulations revoke the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, (S.R. 2006 No. 420) and re-enact those Regulations with certain changes. The main changes are —implementation of the further amendments made to Commission Directive 2002/72/EC and to Council Directive 85/572/EEC by Commission 2007/19/EC (corrected version at OJ No. L 97, 12.4.2007, p.50) (“the new Commission Directive”), which introduces new specifications and restrictions relating to plastic multi-layer materials and articles and to substances used in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles in contact with food in general, and amends certain specifications relating to migration testing in fatty foods; andprovision that a reference in these Regulations to an Annex to Commission Directive 2002/72/EC is to be construed as a reference to that Annex as it may be amended from time to time.