Chapter B

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
EEC No.	Name or Description	Chemical formula	Kind of animal	Maximum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)	Minimum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)	Conditions
E222	Sodium hydrogensulphite (Sodium bisulphite)	NaHSO₃	Dogs and Cats	500 alone or together expressed as SO₂		All feeding stuffs except unprocessed meat and fish
E223	Na₂S₂O₅	Disodium disulphite (Sodium metabisulphite)	Dogs and Cats	500 alone or together expressed as SO₂		All feeding stuffs except unprocessed meat and fish
E250	Sodium nitrite	NaNO₂	Dogs and Cats	100 (feeding stuffs with a moisture content exceeding 20% only)
E214	Ethyl 4 hydroxybenzoate	C₉H₁₀O₃	Pet animals	No limit		All feeding stuffs
E215	Sodium ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate	C₉H₉O₃Na	Pet animals	No limit		All feeding stuffs
E216	Propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate	C₁₀H₁₂O₃	Pet animals	No limit		All feeding stuffs
E217	Sodium propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate	C₁₀H₁₁O₃Na	Pet animals	No limit		All feeding stuffs
E218	Methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate	C₈H₈O₃	Pet animals	No limit		All feeding stuffs
E219	Sodium methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate	C₈H₇O₃Na	Pet animals	No limit		All feeding stuffs
E490	Propane- 1,2-dio l	C₃H₈O₂	Dogs	53,000		All feeding stuffs
E240	Formaldehyde	CH₂O	All species of animals Pigs up to the age of six months	No limit (for silage only) 600 (skimmed milk only)
E285	Methylpropionic acid	C₄H₈O₂	Ruminants at the beginning of rumination	4,000	1,000

Notes on Part VII

f1: Note also that one preservative is permitted by virtue of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1594/1999 as referred to in Part IX of this Table.