Regulation on the testing of food contact products and substances.

This Regulation defines the method of testing of articles and substances (in their final state) that shall or can come into contact with food; this Regulation further sets out the methodology for preparing samples for related tests and performance of passage or substance migration measurements. These rules are in accordance with the provisions of the Council Directive 85/572/EEC of 19 December 1985 laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs, and several other documents as listed in the article 1.
The classification here established is in the same form Annex I of the Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and repealing Directives 80/590/EEC and 89/109/EEC
The Annex is also part of this publication (Annex I: Basic rules for conducting migration tests for plastic materials and articles; Annex II: Basic rules for testing total and specific migration for plastics materials and articles; Annex III: Analytical method for the determination of the content of vinyl chloride monomers in food contact materials and articles; Annex IV: Analytical method for the determination of vinyl chloride which is converted from materials and products into foodstuffs; Annex V: Basic rules for determining the migration of N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosable substances and analytical procedures for determining migration).