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  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998",
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  "heading": "A. General provisions",
  "text": "When the results of the migration tests specified in this Schedule and, where appropriate, Schedule 4 are analytically determined the specific gravity of any simulants used shall be assumed to be 1, so that milligrams of any substance released per litre of simulant will correspond numerically to milligrams of that substance released per kilogram of that simulant.",
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