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  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "Where, in the Table to this Part of this Schedule, a reduction factor is specified relation to a specific food or a specific group of foods, that reduction factor shall be applied to the result of any migration test using the simulant specified in relation to that food or group of foods by dividing the result of the test by that reduction factor.",
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