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November 2007 update on chemical contaminants

Thursday 8 November 2007

This update contains information on ongoing and forthcoming issues in the European Commission relating to agricultural, industrial and environmental contaminants in food.

Full details of the update and requests for stakeholder input can be found at the link below. This page is a summary of the topics contained in the full document.

Mycotoxins

• update on the approval of the pre-export checks carried out by the United States of America
• update on the amendment to Commission Decision 2006/504 to include peanuts and products from Brazil
• publication of Commission Decision 2007/563 amending Commission Decision 2006/504 on the import of almonds from the US
• update on Article 15(5) of Commission Regulation 882/2004 which makes provision for a list of ‘high risk’ foods
• update on maximum levels for ochratoxin A in various foodstuffs and T2/HT2 in cereals and cereal products
• request for data on fusarium toxins in the 2007 harvest

Nitrates

• update on the risk-benefit evaluation on nitrates currently being undertaken by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Process contaminants

• update on the EFSA opinion regarding ethyl carbamate in alcoholic beverages

Inorganic contaminants

• update on revision of limits for cadmium in fish and shellfish
• update on the setting of limits for lead and cadmium in food supplements, algal products, herbs, spices, beverages
• update on EFSA opinions on lead and cadmium
• update on concentration factors and limits for heavy metals in processed products

Dioxins, PCBs and PAHs

• update on the setting of limits for PAHs in food supplements and various foodstuffs
• updates on the review of the existing limit for dioxins in liver, possible setting of limit for dioxins and PCBs in fish liver and harmonisation of limits for non-dioxin-like PCBs in various foodstuffs

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