The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2008

Made: 30 April 2008

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 30 April 2008

Coming into force

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PART 1 — Preliminary

Title, application 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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Offences by corporate bodies or Scottish partnerships

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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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Other transitional defences and savings

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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 — Application for Authorisation

Applications for inclusion of an additive in the Community list of authorised additives

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PART 5 — General and Supplementary

Application of provisions of the Act

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Amendment of the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990

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Amendments to the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 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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Signed

Gwenda Thomas — Under authority of the Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers — 30 April 2008

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 16, section 1(1) and (2) (definition of “food”) was substituted by S.I. 2004/2990. Sections 17 and 48 were amended by paragraphs 12 and 21 respectively of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c. 28), “the 1999 Act”. Section 48 was also amended by S.I. 2004/2990. Section 26(3) was amended by Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act. Section 53(2) was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 16 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (1994 c. 40), Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act and S.I. 2004/2990.

[^f00002]: Functions of the Secretary of State so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act, and thereafter transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 and Schedule 11 of paragraph 30 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c. 32).

[^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. 575/2006 (OJ No. L100, 8.4.2006, p.3).

[^f00005]: S.I. 1998/1376, as amended in relation to Wales by S.I. 2001/1263 (W.70), S.I. 2002/2834 (W.272), S.I. 2003/302 (W.44), S.I. 2005/182 (W.15) and S.I. 2005/1649 (W.130). It was revoked by S.I. 2006/2982 (W.273).

[^f00006]: S.I. 2007/3252 (W.287).

[^f00007]: 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).

[^f00008]: 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).

[^f00009]: OJ No. L184, 15.7.1988, p.61.

[^f00010]: OJ No. L40, 11.2.1989, p. 27.

[^f00011]: OJ No. L178, 28.7.95, p.1. This was last amended by Commission Directive 2004/46, OJ No. L114, 21.4.2004, p.15.

[^f00012]: OJ No. L226, 22.9.95, p.1. This was last amended by Commission Directive 2004/47, OJ No. L113, 20.4.2004, p.24.