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Aflatoxins in Food:
| Commodity |
Maximum Level |
| B1 |
Total |
M1 |
| Groundnuts to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs. |
8 ppb |
15 ppb |
- |
| Nuts and dried fruit to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or as an ingredient in foodstuffs. |
5 ppb
|
10 ppb |
- |
| Groundnuts, nuts, dried fruit and processed products thereof, intended for direct humanconsumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs. |
2 ppb |
4 ppb |
- |
| Oilseed intended for direct human consumption. |
2 ppb |
4 ppb |
- |
| Oilseed for processing. |
8 ppb |
15 ppb |
- |
|
Maize to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs.
|
5 ppb |
10 ppb |
- |
| Cereals (including buckwheat, Fagopyrim spp.) and processed products there of intended for direct human consumption or as an ingredient in foodstuffs. |
2 pbb |
4 ppb |
- |
| Cereals (including buckwheat, Fagopyrim spp.), with the exception of maize, to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption. |
2 ppb |
4 ppb |
- |
| Rice, including brown rice (intended for milling). |
5 pbb |
10 ppb |
- |
| Rice, including brown rice (intended for direct human consumption). |
2 ppb |
4 ppb |
- |
| Following species of spices: |
5 ppb |
10 ppb |
- |
- Capsicum spp. (dried fruits thereof, whole or ground, including chillies, chilli powder, cayane and paprika)
|
- |
- Piper spp. (fruits thereof, including white and black pepper)
|
- |
- Myristica fragrans (nutmeg)
|
- |
- Zingiber officinale (ginger)
|
- |
|
|
- |
| Milk (raw milk, milk for the manufacturer of milk based products and heat treated milk). |
- |
- |
0.05 ppb |
| Baby foods and processed cereal, cereal based foods for infants and young children. |
0.1 ppb |
- |
- |
| Infant formulae and follow-on formulae, including infant milk and follow-on milk. |
- |
- |
0.025 ppb |
| Dietary foods for special medical purposes intended specifically for infants. |
0.1 ppb |
- |
0.025 ppb |
Deoxynivalenol in Food:
Commodity |
Maximum Level |
| Unprocessed cereals (excluding durum wheat, oats and maize). |
1250 ppb |
| Unprocessed durum wheat and oats. |
1750 ppb |
| Unprocessed maize. |
1750 ppb |
| Cereals intended for direct human consumption, cereal flour (including maize flour, maize meal and maize grits), bran as end product intended for direct human consumption. |
750 ppb |
| Bread, biscuits, pastries, cereal snacks and breakfast cereal. |
500 ppb |
| Dry pasta. |
750 ppb |
| Processed cereal based baby and infant food |
200 ppb |
Fumonisins in Food:
| Commodity |
Maximum Level
(B1 & B2)
|
| Unprocessed maize. |
4000 ppb |
| Maize and maize based foods intended for direct human consumption. |
1000 ppb |
| Maize based breakfast cereals and maize based snacks. |
800 ppb |
| Processed maize based foods and baby foods for infants and young children. |
200 ppb |
* Levels currently under discussion.
Ochratoxin A in Food:
| Commodity |
Maximum Level |
| Unprocessed cereals. |
5 ppb |
| All products derived from unprocessed cereals (including cereal products and cereal grains intended for direct human consumption). |
3 ppb |
| Dried vine fruit (currants, raisins and sultanas). |
10 ppb |
| Roasted coffee beans and ground roasted coffee. |
5 ppb |
| Soluble coffee (instant coffee). |
10 ppb |
| Wine (including sparkling wine, excluding liqueur wine and wine with an alcoholic strength of not less than 15% volume) and fruit wine. |
2 ppb |
| Aromatised wine, aromatised wine based drinks and aromatised wine product cocktails. |
2 ppb |
| Grape juice, concentrated grape juice as reconstituted, grape nectar, grape must and concentrated must as reconstituted, intended for direct human consumption. |
2 ppb |
| Capsicum spp. (dried fruits thereof, whole or ground, including chillies, chilli powder, cayane and paprika). |
30 ppb
15ppb (from 01.01.2015) |
| Piper spp. (fruits thereof, including white and black pepper). |
15 ppb |
| Myristica fragrans (nutmeg). |
| Zingiber officinale (ginger) |
| Curcuma longa (tumeric). |
| Mixtures of spices containing one of the abovementioned spices. |
15 ppb |
| Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra, Glycyrrhiza inflate and other species), liquorice root, ingredient for herbal infusion. |
20 ppb |
| Liquorice extract for use in food, particular beverages and confectionery. |
80 ppb |
| Baby foods and processed cereal based foods for infants and young children. |
0.5 ppb |
| Dietary foods for special medical purposes intended specifically for infants. |
0.5 ppb |
| Wheat gluten not sold directly to the consumer. |
8 ppb |
Patulin in Food:
| Commodity |
Maximum Level |
| Fruit juices and in drinks containing apple juice or derived from apples. |
50 ppb |
| Solid apple products, such as apple puree, intending for direct consumption. |
25 ppb |
| Apple juice and solid apple products for infants and young children. |
10 ppb |
T-2 & HT-2 Toxin in Food:
| Commodity |
Guidance Level
(T-2 & HT-2)
|
| Unprocessed cereals |
| - Barley (including malting barley) and maize |
200 ppb |
| - Oats (with husk) |
1000 ppb |
| - Wheat, rye and other cereals |
100 ppb |
| Cereal grains for direct human consumption |
| - Oats |
200 ppb |
| - Maize |
100 ppb |
| - Other cereals |
50 ppb |
| Cereal products for human consumption |
| - Oat bran and flaked oats |
200 ppb |
| - Cereal bran except oat bran, oat milling products other than oat bran and flaked oats, and maize milling products |
100 ppb |
| - Other cereal milling products |
50 ppb |
| - Breakfast cereals including formed cereal flakes |
75 ppb |
| - Bread (including small bakery wares), pastries, biscuits, cereal snacks, pasta |
25 ppb |
| - Cereal-based foods for infants and young children |
15 ppb |
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