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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-853/annex-III/section-VII/chapter-V",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/853",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-853",
  "path": "annex/III/section/VII/chapter/V",
  "kind": "chapter",
  "number": "V:",
  "heading": "HEALTH STANDARDS FOR LIVE BIVALVE MOLLUSCS",
  "text": "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.\n1.. 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.\n2.. They must not contain marine biotoxins in total quantities (measured in the whole body or any part edible separately) that exceed the following limits:\n(a) for paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), 800 micrograms per kilogram;\n(b) for amnesic shellfish poison (ASP), 20 milligrams of domoic acid per kilogram;\n(c) for okadaic acid, dinophysistoxins and pectenotoxins together, 160 micrograms of okadaic acid equivalents per kilogram;\n(d) for yessotoxins, 3,75 milligrams of yessotoxin equivalent per kilogram;\nand\n(e) for azaspiracids, 160 micrograms of azaspiracid equivalents per kilogram.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 786/2013 of 16 August 2013 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the permitted limits of yessotoxins in live bivalve molluscs (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Substituted by Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (Official Journal of the European Union L 139 of 30 April 2004)."
    }
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}