{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-10/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-10/article-12.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": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Overall migration limit",
  "text": "1. Plastic materials and articles shall not transfer their constituents to food simulants in quantities exceeding 10 milligrams of total constituents released per dm2 of food contact surface (mg/dm2).\n2. By derogation from paragraph 1, plastic materials and articles intended to be brought into contact with food intended for infants and young children, as defined by Commission Directives 2006/141/EC and 2006/125/EC, shall not transfer their constituents to food simulants in quantities exceeding 60 milligrams of total of constituents released per kg of food simulant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 401, 30.12.2006, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 339, 6.12.2006, p. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/10/article/12",
    "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."
}