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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-scotland-regulations-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "General Provisions",
  "text": "Where a plastic material or article is intended to come into repeated contact with food, any migration test shall (subject to paragraph 7) be carried out three times on a single sample in accordance with the conditions laid down in this Schedule and, where appropriate, Schedule 3 using separate samples of the simulant or, as the case may be food, on each occasion, and the level of the migration found in the third test shall be treated as the level relevant to that test.",
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