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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1998/schedule-4/part-III/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1376",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1998",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "D. Selection of simulants for testing materials and articles which are accompanied by a specific indication",
  "text": "A specific indication referred to in paragraph 7 of this Part of this Schedule 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 IV of these Regulations or the decription 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 IV of this Schedule.\nTABLE 2\nSimulants 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\nSimulants 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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    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/325",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/1649",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2005"
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      "type": "am (S)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/92",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2005"
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  "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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