# The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations 1995, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3145) (“the principal Regulations”) and implement Commission Directive 93/8/EEC (OJ No. L90, 14.4.93, p.22), amending Council Directive 82/711/EEC (OJ No. L297, 23.10.82, p.26) laying down the basic rules necessary for testing migration of the constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs, and Commission Directive 93/9/EEC (OJ No. L90, 14.4.93, p.26), amending Commission Directive 90/128/EEC (OJ No. L75, 21.3.90, p.19, to be read with corrigendum in OJ No. L349, 13.12.90, p.26) relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs.
The Regulations—
(a) provide that the capacity of an article specified in regulation 5(4)(b)(i) of the principal Regulations is less than 500 millilitres or more than 10 litres (regulation 2(a));
(b) correct a drafting error in regulation 5(6) of the principal Regulations (regulation 2(b));
(c) correct an error and an omission in the principal Regulations (regulation 2(c) and (d) respectively);
(d) permit the use, sale or importation of plastic materials and articles manufactured using one or more of the monomers in Section D as inserted in Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations by these Regulations, until 1 April 1996 (regulation 2(e) and (i));
(e) add specified monomers to those listed in Section A of Part I to Schedule 1 of the principal Regulations (monomers authorised without time limit) (regulation 2(f));
(f) amend the restriction at item 26 (11- Aminoundecanoic acid) in Section A of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (regulation 2(g));
(g) substitute for Section B of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (monomers authorised to the end of 1996) an amended list with fewer authorised monomers (regulation 2(h));
(h) add two further requirements to paragraph 4 of Section A of Part I of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations specifying the conditions under which verification of compliance with migration limits is to be carried out using food and simulants respectively (regulation 2(j));
(i) amend provisions relating to simulants to be used, and their use, in migration testing (regulation 2(k) and (l));
(j) amend provisions relating to time and temperature test conditions (regulation 2(m) to (r));
(k) amend the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/2463) so that those Regulations do not apply to any sample taken under the provisions of the principal Regulations (regulation 3).
A copy of the Compliance Cost Assessment in relation to these Regulations has been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament and further copies can be obtained from the Chemical Safety of Food Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ergon House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/360/note (the official version)
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