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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1275/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1275",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 1275/2013 of 6 December 2013 amending Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum levels for arsenic, cadmium, lead, nitrites, volatile mustard oil and harmful botanical impurities (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1275",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 1275/2013\nof 6 December 2013\namending Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum levels for arsenic, cadmium, lead, nitrites, volatile mustard oil and harmful botanical impurities\n(Text with EEA relevance)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 May 2002 on undesirable substances in animal feed, and in particular Article 8(1) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 2002/32/EC provides that the use of products intended for animal feed which contain levels of undesirable substances exceeding the maximum levels laid down in Annex I to that Directive is prohibited.\n(2)\nCertain long-term supply formulations of complementary feed for particular nutritional purposes with a high concentration of trace elements unavoidably contain amounts of arsenic, cadmium or lead exceeding the maximum levels established for these heavy metals in complementary feed. Higher maximum levels for these heavy metals in long-term supply formulations do not, however, entail a risk for animal or public health or the environment as the exposure of the animals to the heavy metals by making use of these specific long-term supply formulations is significantly lower than in the case of other complementary feeds containing trace elements. Therefore it is appropriate to establish higher maximum levels for those heavy metals for such long-term supply formulations, containing high levels of trace elements.\n(3)\nData have been received indicating that the level of arsenic in the feed additive ferrous carbonate following change of area of production exceeds in certain cases the current maximum level. In order to guarantee the supply of ferrous carbonate on the European market it is appropriate to increase the maximum level of arsenic in ferrous carbonate. This increase does not adversely affect the animal and public health or the environment as the maximum level established for arsenic in complementary feed and complete feed remain unchanged.\n(4)\nRecently, a significant difference has been identified by the European Union Reference Laboratory for heavy metals in feed and food (EURL–HM) between the analytical results obtained by the application of different extraction methods currently used for the determination of lead in kaolinitic clay and feed containing kaolinitic clay. Before, no significant differences were observed between the levels of heavy metals in mineral feed by the application of different extraction methods. The maximum levels of heavy metals in feed relate ‘to an analytical determination of lead, whereby extraction is performed in nitric acid (5 % w/w) for 30 minutes at boiling temperature’. It is therefore appropriate to provide for the use of that method of extraction for the determination of lead in kaolinitic clay.\n(5)\nAs regards nitrite, for products and by-products from sugar beet and sugarcane and from the starch production no maximum level applies for the time being. In the light of developments in scientific and technical knowledge the same should apply to products and by-products from alcoholic drink production.\n(6)\nIn the light of developments in scientific and technical knowledge it is appropriate to establish the maximum level for volatile mustard oil in Camelina sativa and derived products to the same level as the maximum level for rapeseed cakes.\n(7)\nThe Brassica species have been listed under harmful botanical impurities because of their high volatile mustard oil (expressed as allyl isothiocyanates) content. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded in its opinion on glucosinolates (allyl isothiocyanates) as undesirable substances in animal feed that adverse effects in animals have been generally correlated to the amount of total glucosinolates in the diet. If the amount of total glucosinolates is measured, impurities caused by the presence of products from Brassica juncea ssp., Brassica nigra and Brassica carinata, would be detected as well. It is therefore appropriate to delete the products, with the exception of the seeds, of these species from Section VI of Annex I on harmful botanical impurities and to establish for feed materials derived from these Brassica species the same maximum level for volatile mustard oil as the maximum level for rapeseed cakes.\n(8)\nIt is appropriate to use the denomination for feed materials as provided for in Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2013 of 16 January 2013 on the catalogue of feed materials.\n(9)\nDirective 2002/32/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(10)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 140, 30.5.2002, p. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Determination of extractable and total lead in kaolinitic clay. Technical support from the EURL-HM to the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers – JRC 69122 – Joint Research Centre – Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "IMEP-111: Total cadmium, lead, arsenic, mercury and copper and extractable cadmium and lead in mineral feed. Report of the eleventh interlaboratory comparison organised by the European Union Reference Laboratory for heavy metals in Feed and Food – EUR 24758 EN — Joint Research Centre – Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on a request from the European Commission on glucosinolates as undesirable substances in animal feed, The EFSA Journal (2008) 590, 1-76."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ L 29, 30.1.2013, p. 1."
    }
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