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

Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles which are already in contact with a known food

5.  The simulant or simulants to be used in testing a plastic material or article which is already in contact with a known food shall be —

(a) where —

(i) the known food is a specific food or is within a specific group of foods described in column 2 of the Table to Part 4 and,

(ii) for the purposes of that Part, a simulant is, or simulants are, specified in relation to that specific food or specific group of foods,

the simulant or simulants so specified;

(b) where —

(i) the known food is neither a specific food, nor

(ii) within a specific group of foods described in the Table to Part 4 of this Schedule,

the simulant or simulants in column 2 of Table 2 opposite the description of food in column 1 of that Table which corresponds most closely to the known food.