{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-488/annex",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/488",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 488/2014 of 12 May 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels of cadmium in foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-488",
  "path": "annex",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 is amended as follows:\n(1) Subsection 3.2. (Cadmium) is replaced by the following:\n‘\n3.2\nCadmium\n3.2.1\nVegetables and fruit, excluding root and tuber vegetables, leaf vegetables, fresh herbs, leafy brassica, stem vegetables, fungi and seaweed (27)\n0,050\n3.2.2\nRoot and tuber vegetables (excluding celeriac, parsnips, salsify and horseradish), stem vegetables (excluding celery) (27). For potatoes the maximum level applies to peeled potatoes\n0,10\n3.2.3\nLeaf vegetables, fresh herbs, leafy brassica, celery, celeriac, parsnips, salsify, horseradish and the following fungi (27): Agaricus bisporus (common mushroom), Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster mushroom), Lentinula edodes (Shiitake mushroom)\n0,20\n3.2.4\nFungi, excluding those listed in point 3.2.3 (27)\n1,0\n3.2.5\nCereal grains excluding wheat and rice\n0,10\n3.2.6\nWheat grains, rice grains\nWheat bran and wheat germ for direct consumption\nSoy beans\n0,20\n3.2.7\nSpecific cocoa and chocolate products as listed below (49)\n—\nMilk chocolate with < 30 % total dry cocoa solids\n0,10 as from 1 January 2019\n—\nChocolate with < 50 % total dry cocoa solids; milk chocolate with ≥ 30 % total dry cocoa solids\n0,30 as from 1 January 2019\n—\nChocolate with ≥ 50 % total dry cocoa solids\n0,80 as from 1 January 2019\n—\nCocoa powder sold to the final consumer or as an ingredient in sweetened cocoa powder sold to the final consumer (drinking chocolate)\n0,60 as from 1 January 2019\n3.2.8\nMeat (excluding offal) of bovine animals, sheep, pig and poultry (6)\n0,050\n3.2.9\nHorsemeat, excluding offal (6)\n0,20\n3.2.10\nLiver of bovine animals, sheep, pig, poultry and horse (6)\n0,50\n3.2.11\nKidney of bovine animals, sheep, pig, poultry and horse (6)\n1,0\n3.2.12\nMuscle meat of fish (24) (25), excluding species listed in points 3.2.13, 3.2.14 and 3.2.15\n0,050\n3.2.13\nMuscle meat of the following fish (24) (25):\nmackerel (Scomber species), tuna (Thunnus species, Katsuwonus pelamis, Euthynnus species), bichique (Sicyopterus lagocephalus)\n0,10\n3.2.14\nMuscle meat of the following fish (24) (25):\nbullet tuna (Auxis species)\n0,15\n3.2.15\nMuscle meat of the following fish (24) (25):\nanchovy (Engraulis species)\nswordfish (Xiphias gladius)\nsardine (Sardina pilchardus)\n0,25\n3.2.16\nCrustaceans (26): muscle meat from appendages and abdomen (44). In case of crabs and crab-like crustaceans (Brachyura and Anomura) muscle meat from appendages\n0,50\n3.2.17\nBivalve molluscs (26)\n1,0\n3.2.18\nCephalopods (without viscera) (26)\n1,0\n3.2.19\nInfant formulae and follow on-formulae (8) (29)\n—\npowdered formulae manufac- tured from cows' milk proteins or protein hydrolysates\n0,010 as from 1 January 2015\n—\nliquid formulae manufactured from cows' milk proteins or protein hydrolysates\n0,005 as from 1 January 2015\n—\npowdered formulae manufac-tured from soya protein isolates, alone or in a mixture with cows' milk proteins\n0,020 as from 1 January 2015\n—\nliquid formulae manufactured from soya protein isolates, alone or in a mixture with cows' milk proteins\n0,010 as from 1 January 2015\n3.2.20\nProcessed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children (3) (29)\n0,040 as from 1 January 2015\n3.2.21\nFood supplements (39) excl. food supplements listed in point 3.2.22\n1,0\n3.2.22\nFood supplements (39) consisting exclusively or mainly of dried seaweed, products derived from seaweed, or of dried bivalve molluscs\n3,0\n’\n(2) In endnote (26) the following sentence is added: ‘In case of Pecten maximus, the maximum level applies to the adductor muscle and gonad only.’\n(3) The following endnote is added:\n‘(49):\nFor the specific cocoa and chocolate products the definitions set out in points A. 2, 3 and 4 of Annex I to Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 June 2000 relating to cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption (OJ L 197, 3.8.2000, p. 19) apply.’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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