The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2009

Testing, reduction factors and definition of food types

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

Table 1:
Food types
DefinitionMeaning
Aqueous foods having a pH > 4.5Foods in relation to which simulant A only is specified in the Table to Part 4
Acidic foods having a pH ≤ 4.5Foods in relation to which simulant B only is specified in Table to Part 4
Alcoholic foodsFoods in relation to which simulant C only is specified in the Table to Part 4
Fatty foodsFoods in relation to which simulant D only is specified in the Table to Part 4
Dry FoodsFoods in relation to which no simulant is specified in the Table to Part 4