Materials and articles in contact with food - Plastics substances subject to limitation - Guide to test methods for the specific migration of substances from plastics to foods
1 Scope
This Standard specifies test methods for the specific migration of substances subject to limitation from plastics materials or articles in contract with foodstuffs to foods and food simulants. This Standard provides a guide to the selection of the appropriate conditions of the migration test.
This Standard is applicable to the plastics materials or articles in contact with foodstuffs.
2 Normative References
The following Standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Standard. For dated references, subsequent amendments to, or revisions of, any of these publications do not apply. However, parties to agreements based on this Part are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the normative documents indicated below. For undated references, the latest edition of the normative document referred to applies.
Foreword II
1 Scope 1
2 Normative References 1
3 Terms and Definitions 2
4 General 4
5 Types of Test 7
6 Food Simulants, Test Media and Reagents 8
7 Selection of Food Simulants 10
8 Migration Test, Substitute Test and Alternative Test Conditions and Conditions of Residual Content Determination 15
9 Apparatus 20
10 Samples and Sample Geometry 21
11 Sampling 25
12 Precision 26
13 Expression of Results 27
14 Test Reports and Statements of Compliance 30
15 Exposure by Total Immersion in a Thermostatically Controlled Oven, Incubator or Refrigerator 31
16 Exposure by Total Immersion at Reflux Temperatures 34
17 Single-side Exposure in a Cell in a Thermostatically Controlled Oven, Incubator or Refrigerator 35
18 Single-side Exposure with a Pouch in a Thermostatically Controlled Oven, Incubator or Refrigerator 37
19 Single-side Exposure by Article Fill in a Thermostatically Controlled Oven, Incubator or Refrigerator 39
Appendix A (Normative) Criteria for Classification of Volatile Substances 41
Appendix B (Normative) Characteristics of Fatty Food Simulants and Test Media 42
Appendix C (Normative) Tolerances on Contact Times and Contact Temperatures Applicable to this Standard 44
Appendix D (Informative) Supports and Cells 45
