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Annex V X1

United Kingdom

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Annex V to Directive 2002/72/EC is amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    Part A is replaced by the following:

    ‘ Part A:

    General specifications

    Plastic material and articles shall not release primary aromatic amines in a detectable quantity (DL = 0,01 mg/kg of food or food simulant). The migration of the primary aromatic amines appearing in the lists in Annex II and III is excluded from this restriction. ’

  2. (2)

    In Part B, the following new specifications are inserted, in the appropriate numerical order:

    Ref. No OTHER SPECIFICATIONS
    ‘ 42080

    Carbon black

    Specifications:

    • Toluene extractables: maximum 0,1 %, determined according to ISO method 6209.

    • UV absorption of cyclohexane extract at 386 nm: < 0,02 AU for a 1 cm cell or < 0,1 AU for a 5 cm cell, determined according to a generally recognised method of analysis.

    • Benzo(a)pyrene content: max 0,25 mg/kg carbon black.

    • Maximum use level of carbon black in the polymer: 2,5 % w/w

    72081/10

    Petroleum hydrocarbon resins (hydrogenated)

    Specifications:

    Petroleum hydrocarbon resins, hydrogenated are produced by the catalytic or thermal polymerisation of dienes and olefins of the aliphatic, alicyclic and/or monobenzenoid arylalkene types from distillates of cracked petroleum stocks with a boiling range not greater than 220 °C, as well as the pure monomers found in these distillation streams, subsequently followed by distillation, hydrogenation and additional processing.

    Properties:

    • Viscosity: > 3 Pa.s at 120 °C.

    • Softening point: > 95 °C as determined by ASTM Method E 28-67.

    • Bromine number: < 40 (ASTM D1159)

    • The colour of a 50 % solution in toluene < 11 on the Gardner scale

    • Residual aromatic monomer ≤ 50 ppm

    76845

    Polyester of 1,4-butanediol with caprolactone

    MW fraction < 1 000 is less than 0,5 % (w/w)

    81500

    Polyvinylpyrrolidone

    The substance shall meet the purity criteria established in Commission Directive 96/77/EC f1

    88640

    Soybean oil, epoxidized

    Oxirane < 8 %, iodine number < 6

Annotations

Editorial notes

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Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Directive 2007/19/EC of 30 March 2007 amending Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Official Journal of the European Union L 91 of 31 March 2007).

Footnotes

f1

OJ L 339, 30.12.1996, p. 1 . ’