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Food Law News - EU - 2017

Council Minutes, 21 March 2017

RESIDUES - Council discussions: Pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs

The following is an extract from the minutes of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council Meeting on the 21st March 2017:

The Council decided not to oppose the adoption of a Commission regulation laying down rules on the use of a maximum residue limit (MRL) established for a pharmacologically active substance in a particular foodstuff for another foodstuff derived from the same species and a maximum residue limit established for a pharmacologically active substance in one or more species for other species, in accordance with regulation (EC) No 470/2009 (5966/17 + ADD 1).

Regulation 470/2009 lays down procedures for the establishment of residue limits for pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin.


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