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The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) (No.2) Regulations 2006

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Preliminary

    1. 1.Title, application 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.Method of testing the capability of plastic materials or articles to transfer constituents, and methods of analysis

    10. 12.Labelling

    11. 13.Provisions relating to the use of certain epoxy derivatives (BADGE, BFDGE and NOGE)

  4. PART 3 Execution and Enforcement

    1. 14.Enforcement

    2. 15.Offences and Penalties

    3. 16.General defences

    4. 17.Transitional defence relating to PVC gaskets containing epoxidised soybean oil

    5. 18.Other transitional defences and savings

    6. 19.Procedure where a sample is to be analysed

    7. 20.Secondary analysis by the Government Chemist

  5. PART 4 Application for Authorisation

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

  6. PART 5 General and Supplementary

    1. 22.Application of provisions of the Act

    2. 23.Amendment of the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990

    3. 24.Amendments to the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2005

    4. 25.Revocation

  7. Signature

    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

  9. Explanatory Note

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