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

Made: 18th February 2009

Coming into operation: 13th March 2009

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PART 1 — Preliminary

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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PART 2 — Requirements for Materials and Articles

Restriction on the use, sale or import of plastic materials and articles

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Restriction on the use of monomers in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles

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Restriction on the use of additives in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles

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Required standard for non-migration of constituents of monomers

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Required standard for non-migration of constituents of additives

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Required standard for products obtained by bacterial fermentation

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Required standards relating to overall migration limits

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Required standard for non-migration of primary aromatic amines

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Required standard relating to plastic multi-layer materials and articles

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Provisions relating to the use of certain epoxy derivatives (BADGE, BDGE and NOGE)

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

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Labelling and documentation

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PART 3 — Execution and Enforcement

Enforcement

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Offences and Penalties

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Time limit for prosecutions

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Offences due to the act or default of a third party

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Defence of exercising due diligence etc

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Transitional defence relating to PVC gaskets containing epoxidised soybean oil

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Procedure where a sample is to be analysed

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Secondary analysis by the Government Chemist

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PART 4 — General and Supplementary

Application of provisions of the Order

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Amendment of the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

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Amendments to the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — Supplementary provisions relating to Annexes II and III

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SCHEDULE 2 — Provisions Applicable when Testing Compliance with the Migration Limits

General Provisions

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Special provisions relating to the fat reduction factor

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Special provisions relating to the correction of specific migration in simulant D

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Special provisions relating to overall migration

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Special provisions relating to caps, lids, gaskets, stoppers and similar sealing articles

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SCHEDULE 3 — Overall and Specific Migration Testing Using Food Simulants

PART 1 — Basic Rules

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PART 2 — Food Simulants to be used in Migration Testing

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PART 3 — Selection of Food Simulants

Testing, reduction factors and definition of food types

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Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles intended for contact with all food types

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

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Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles which are accompanied by a specific indication

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PART 4 — Simulants to be used in relation to a Specific Food or Group of Foods

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PART 5 — Migration Test Conditions (Times and Temperatures)

General criteria

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Volatile migrants

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Special cases

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PART 6 — Substitute Fat Test for Overall and Specific Migration

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PART 7 — Alternative Fat Tests for Overall and Specific Migration

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SCHEDULE 4 — Information to be contained in a declaration of compliance

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SCHEDULE 5 — Transitional arrangements

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 18th February 2009.

Sean Donaghy — A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) Article 3(6)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1991/762 (N.I.7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1663 (N.I.12), paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c.28 and S.R. 2004 Nos. 482 and 505

[^f00003]: 1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (2006, c.51)

[^f00004]: OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1.). That Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 202/2008 (OJ No. L60, 5.2.2008, p.17)

[^f00005]: OJ No. L297, 23.10.1982, p.26. This was last amended by Commission Directive 97/48/EC (OJ No. L222, 12.8.1997, p.10)

[^f00006]: OJ No. L372, 31.12.1985, p.14. This was last amended by Commission Directive 2007/19/EC (OJ No. L97, 12.4.2007 p.50)

[^f00007]: OJ No. L184, 15.7.1988, p.61

[^f00008]: OJ No. L40, 11.2.1989, p. 27

[^f00009]: OJ No. L220, 15.8.2002, p.18. This was amended by Commission Directives 2004/1/EC (OJ No. L7, 13.1.2004, p.45), 2004/19/EC (OJ No. L71, 10.3.2004, p.8), 2005/79/EC (OJ No. L302, 19.11.2005, p.35), 2007/19/EC (published in revised and corrected form in OJ No. L97, 12.4.2007, p.50), and 2008/39/EC (OJ No. L63, 7.3.2008, p.6)

[^f00010]: OJ No. L158, 18.6.2008, p.17

[^f00011]: OJ No. L6, 10.1.2009, p.20

[^f00012]: OJ No. L253, 20.9.2008, p.1

[^f00013]: OJ No. L338, 13.11.2004, p.4

[^f00014]: OJ No. L302, 19.11.2005, p.28

[^f00016]: 1954 c.33 (NI)

[^f00017]: S.R. 2008 No. 167 as amended by S.R. 2008 No. 271

[^f00018]: OJ No. 196, 16.8.1967, p.1, to which there have been numerous amendments and as last amended by Regulation EC No. 1272/2008 (OJ No. L353, 31.12.2008, p.1)

[^f00019]: OJ No. L401, 30.12.2006, p.1

[^f00020]: OJ No. L339, 6.12.2006, p.16

[^f00021]: S.R. 2006 No. 251

[^f00022]: OJ No. L109, 6.5.2000, p.29, as last amended by Directive 2003/89/EC (OJ No. L308, 25.11.2003, p.15)

[^f00023]: S.R. 1991 No. 198; the relevant amending statutory rule is S.R. 2008 No. 271

[^f00024]: S.R. 2008 No. 167

[^f00025]: S.R. 2008 No. 271

[^f00026]: OJ No. L71, 10.3.2004, p.8

[^f00027]: OJ No. L302, 19.11.2005, p.35

[^f00028]: OJ No. L91, 31.3.2007, p.17

[^f00029]: OJ No. L63, 7.3.2008, p.6

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