Chapter V: HEALTH STANDARDS FOR LIVE BIVALVE MOLLUSCSX1

In addition to ensuring compliance with microbiological criteria adopted in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, food business operators must ensure that live bivalve molluscs placed on the market for human consumption meet the standards laid down in this Chapter.

1. 1..

   They must have organoleptic characteristics associated with freshness and viability, including shells free of dirt, an adequate response to percussion and normal amounts of intravalvular liquid.

2. 2..

   They must not contain marine biotoxins in total quantities (measured in the whole body or any part edible separately) that exceed the following limits:

   1. (a)

      for paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), 800 micrograms per kilogram;

   2. (b)

      for amnesic shellfish poison (ASP), 20 milligrams of domoic acid per kilogram;

   3. (c)

      for okadaic acid, dinophysistoxins and pectenotoxins together, 160 micrograms of okadaic acid equivalents per kilogram;

   4. (d)

      F1for yessotoxins, 3,75 milligrams of yessotoxin equivalent per kilogram;

      and

   5. (e)

      for azaspiracids, 160 micrograms of azaspiracid equivalents per kilogram.