SCHEDULE 4Overall and Specific Migration Testing Using Food Simulants

Part IIISelection of Food Simulants

D.Selection of simulants for testing materials or articles which are accompanied by a specific indication

8.

A specific indication referred to in paragraph 7 is expressed in accordance with this paragraph if it is expressed—

(a)

at a marketing stage other than retail, by using the reference number in column 1 of the Table to Part IV or the description of food in column 2 of that Table which, in either case, corresponds to the food;

(b)

at the retail stage, by using an indication which refers to only a few foods or groups of foods described in the Table to Part IV.

TABLE 2Simulants to be selected for testing food contact materials in special cases

Contact foods

Simulant

Only aqueous foods

Simulant A

Only acidic foods

Simulant B

Only alcoholic foods

Simulant C

Only fatty foods

Simulant D

All aqueous and acidic foods

Simulant B

All alcoholic and aqueous foods

Simulant C

All alcoholic and acidic foods

Simulant C and B

All fatty and aqueous foods

Simulant D and A

All fatty and acidic foods

Simulant D and B

All fatty, alcoholic and aqueous foods

Simulant D and C

All fatty, alcoholic and acidic foods

Simulant D, C and B