{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006/schedule-6/part-3/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006/schedule-6/part-3/paragraph-8.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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles which are accompanied by a specific indication",
  "text": "A specific indication referred to in paragraph 7 is expressed in accordance with this paragraph if it is expressed—\n(a) at a marketing stage other than retail, by using the reference number in column 1 of the Table to Part 4 of these Regulations or the description of food in column 2 of that Table which, in either case, corresponds to the food;\n(b) at the retail stage, by using an indication which refers to only a few foods or groups of foods described in the Table to Part 4.\nTable 2: Simulants to be selected for testing food contact materials in special cases\nContact foods\nSimulant\nOnly aqueous foods\nSimulant A\nOnly acidic foods\nSimulant B\nOnly alcoholic foods\nSimulant C\nOnly fatty foods\nSimulant D\nAll aqueous and acidic foods\nSimulant B\nAll alcoholic and aqueous foods\nSimulant C\nAll alcoholic and acidic foods\nSimulant C and B\nAll fatty and aqueous foods\nSimulants D and A\nAll fatty and acidic foods\nSimulants D and B\nAll fatty, alcoholic and aqueous foods\nSimulants D and C\nAll fatty, alcoholic and acidic foods\nSimulants D, C and B",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1401/schedule/6/part/3/paragraph/8",
    "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."
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