Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/79 of 18 January 2018 amending Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (Text with EEA relevance. )

• CELEX: Regulation (EU) 2018/79
• Articles: 4

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Plastic materials and articles complying with Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 as applicable before the entry into force of this Regulation, may be placed on the market until 8 February 2019 and may remain on the market until exhaustion of stocks.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 is amended as follows:

(1)

in point 1, Table 1 is amended as follows:

(a)

the entry concerning FCM substance No 856 is replaced by the following:

‘856

40563

25101-28-4

(butadiene, styrene, methyl methacrylate, butyl acrylate) copolymer cross-linked with divinylbenzene or 1,3-butanediol dimethacrylate

yes

no

no

Only to be used in:

—

rigid poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) at a maximum level of 12 % at room temperature or below; or

—

at up to 40 % w/w in blends of styrene acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN)/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) repeat-use articles at room temperature or below, and when either in contact only with aqueous, acidic and/or low alcoholic (< 20 %) foodstuffs for less than 1 day, or when in contact only with dry foodstuffs for any duration of time.’

(b)

the following entries are inserted in numerical order of the FCM substance numbers:

‘1061

80512-44-3

2,4,4′-trifluorobenzophenone

no

yes

no

Only to be used as a co-monomer in the manufacture of polyether ether ketone plastics up to 0,3 % w/w of the final material.

1063

1547-26-8

2,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluoro-1-pentene

no

yes

no

Only to be used together with tetrafluoroethylene and/or ethylene co-monomers to manufacture fluorocopolymers for application as polymer processing aid at up to 0,2 % w/w of the food contact material, and when the low-molecular mass fraction below 1 500  Da in the fluorocopolymer does not exceed 30 mg/kg.

1064

39318-18-8

tungsten oxide

yes

no

no

0,05

Stoichiometry: WO n , n = 2,72-2,90

(25)

1065

85711-28-0

mixture of methyl-branched and linear C 14 -C 18 alkanamides, derived from fatty acids

yes

no

no

5

Only to be used in the manufacture of articles made of polyolefins, and which do not come into contact with foods for which food simulant D2 is assigned in Table 2 of Annex III.

(26)’

(2)

in point 3, in Table 3, the following entries are added:

‘(25)

When used as reheat agent in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) verification of compliance with the specific migration limit is not required; in all other cases compliance with the specific migration limit shall be verified in accordance with Article 18; the specific migration limit is expressed as mg tungsten/kg food.

(26)

Migration of stearamide, listed in Table 1 under FCM substance No 306 to which no specific migration limit applies, shall be excluded from verification of the compliance of the migration of the mixture with the specific migration limit laid down for the mixture.’