{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-10/annex-III/division-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-10/annex-III/division-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2011/10",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 of 14 January 2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-10",
  "path": "annex/III/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Food simulant assignment for testing overall migration",
  "text": "For tests to demonstrate compliance with the overall migration limit food simulants shall be chosen as set out in Table 3:\nTable 3\nFood simulant assignment for demonstrating compliance with the overall migration limit\nFoods covered\nFood simulants in which testing shall be performed\nall types of food\n1.\ndistilled water or water of equivalent quality or food simulant A;\n2.\nfood simulant B; and\n3.\nfood simulant D2.\nall types of food except for acidic foods\n1.\ndistilled water or water of equivalent quality or food simulant A; and\n2.\nfood simulant D2.\nall aqueous and alcoholic foods and milk products with a pH ≥ 4,5\nfood simulant D1\nall aqueous and alcoholic foods and milk products with a pH < 4,5\nfood simulant D1 and food simulant B\nall aqueous foods and alcoholic foods up to an alcohol content of 20 %\nfood simulant C\nall aqueous and acidic foods and alcoholic foods up to an alcohol content of 20 %\n1.\nfood simulant C; and\n2.\nfood simulant B.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/752 of 28 April 2017 amending and correcting Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/37 of 10 January 2019 amending and correcting Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/10/annex/III/division/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:23.550534+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}