Materials and objects intended to come into contact with foodstuffs: STAINLESS STEELS.

Regulation updating the Decree issued by the Minister for Health of 21 March 1973, concerning: ‘Hygienic packaging, containers and tools intended to come into contact with foodstuffs or with substances for personal use’, limited to stainless steels.

The provisions set out in the draft Regulation which are the subject of the notification concern the inclusion of new stainless steels in the positive list in Annex II – Section 6 of the Ministerial Decree of 21 March 1973. One steel is inserted in Part A (stainless steels identified by acronyms required by European or international standards) and the other in Part B (steel identified by the chemical analysis of casting, in the absence of acronyms required by European or international standards).