The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2009 No. 481 (W. 49)

SCHEDULE 3 Overall and Specific Migration Testing Using Food Simulants

PART 3 Selection of Food Simulants

Testing, reduction factors and definition of food types

3.  Food types are defined in Table 1 below as follows —

Table 1:

Food types

Definition	Meaning
Aqueous foods having a pH > 4.5	Foods in relation to which simulant A only is specified in the Table to Part 4
Acidic foods having a pH ≤ 4.5	Foods in relation to which simulant B only is specified in Table to Part 4
Alcoholic foods	Foods in relation to which simulant C only is specified in the Table to Part 4
Fatty foods	Foods in relation to which simulant D only is specified in the Table to Part 4
Dry Foods	Foods in relation to which no simulant is specified in the Table to Part 4