# The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998, Paragraph 5: C. Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles which are already in contact with a known food


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—
(a) where the known food is a specific food or is within a specific group of foods described in column 2 of the Table to Part IV of this Schedule and, for the purposes of Part IV of this Schedule, a simulant is, or simulants are, specified in relation to that specific food or specific group of foods, the simulant or simulants so specified;
(b) where the known food is neither a specific food nor within a specific group of foods described in the Table to Part IV of this Schedule, the simulant or simulants in column 2 of Table 2 to this Part of this Schedule opposite the description of food in column 1 of that Table which corresponds most closely to the known food.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1376/schedule/4/part/III/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1998/schedule-4/part-III/paragraph-5
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