# Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 laying down Community procedures for the establishment of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin, repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 and amending Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance), Article 2: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

In addition to the definitions laid down in Article 1 of Directive 2001/82/EC, Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, the following definitions shall apply for the purposes of this Regulation:
(a) ‘residues of pharmacologically active substances’ means all pharmacologically active substances, expressed in mg/kg or μg/kg on a fresh weight basis, whether active substances, excipients or degradation products, and their metabolites which remain in food obtained from animals;
(b) ‘food-producing animals’ means animals bred, raised, kept, slaughtered or harvested for the purposes of producing food.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/470/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-470/article-2
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