The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 No. 167

SCHEDULE 3 Overall and Specific Migration Testing Using Food Simulants

PART 1 Basic Rules

49.  In migration testing it is permissible to—

(a) reduce the number of tests to be carried out to that or those which, in the specific case under examination, is or are generally recognised to be the most severe on the basis of scientific evidence;

(b) omit the migration, the substitute or the alternative tests where —

(i) there is conclusive proof that the migration limits cannot be exceeded in any foreseeable conditions of use of the material or article, or

(ii) the conditions for non-compulsory testing set out in Article 8(2) or 8(3) of the Directive are met.