{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006/schedule-6/part-3/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006/schedule-6/part-3/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1401",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/6/part/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles which are already in contact with a known food",
  "text": "The simulant or simulants to be used in testing a plastic material or article which is already in contact with a known food shall be —\n(a) where —\n(i) the known food is a specific food or is within a specific group of foods described in column 2 of the Table to Part 4 and,\n(ii) for the purposes of that Part, a simulant is, or simulants are, specified in relation to that specific food or specific group of foods,\nthe simulant or simulants so specified;\n(b) where —\n(i) the known food is neither a specific food, nor\n(ii) within a specific group of foods described in the Table to Part 4 of this Schedule,\nthe simulant or simulants in column 2 of Table 2 opposite the description of food in column 1 of that Table which corresponds most closely to the known food.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1401/schedule/6/part/3/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:28:33.333266+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."
}