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Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1869 of 7 November 2019 amending and correcting Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum levels for certain undesirable substances in animal feed (Text with EEA relevance)

Regulation (EU) 2019/1869 · Regulation · 3 articles

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Article 1

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Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC is amended and corrected in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

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ANNEX Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC is amended as follows: (1) Row 1 of Section I, Arsenic, is replaced by the following: Undesirable substance Products intended for animal feed Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) relative to a feed with a moisture content of 12 % ‘1. Arsenic ( 1 ) Feed materials 2 with the exception of: — meal made from grass, from dried lucerne and from dried clover, and dried sugar beet pulp and dried molasses sugar beet pulp; 4 — palm kernel expeller; 4 ( 2 ) — peat; leonardite; 5 ( 2 ) — phosphates, calcareous marine algae; 10 — calcium carbonate; calcium and magnesium carbonate ( 10 ); calcareous marine shells; 15 — magnesium oxide; magnesium carbonate; 20 — fish, other aquatic animals and products derived thereof; 25 ( 2 ) — seaweed meal and feed materials derived from seaweed. 40 ( 2 ) Iron particles used as tracer. 50 Feed additives belonging to the functional group of compounds of trace elements 30 with the exception of: — cupric sulphate pentahydrate; cupric carbonate; dicopper chloride trihydroxide; ferrous carbonate; dimanganese chloride trihydroxide 50 — zinc oxide; manganous oxide; cupric oxide. 100 Complementary feed 4 with the exception of: — mineral feed; 12 — complementary feed for pet animals containing fish, other aquatic animals and products derived thereof and/or seaweed meal and feed materials derived from seaweed; 10 ( 2 ) — long-term supply formulations of feed for particular nutritional purposes with a concentration of trace elements higher than 100 times the established maximum content in complete feed; 30 Complete feed 2 with the exception of: — complete feed for fish and fur animals; 10 ( 2 ) — complete feed for pet animals containing fish, other aquatic animals and products derived thereof and/or seaweed meal and feed materials derived from seaweed. 10 ( 2 )’ (2) In Row 3 of section I, fluorine, in the column ‘Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) relative to a feed with a moisture content of 12 %’, the figure for the maximum level for calcareous marine algae is replaced by ‘1 250’; (3) Row 4 of Section I, Lead, is replaced by the following: Undesirable substance Products intended for animal feed Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) relative to a feed with a moisture content of 12 % ‘4. Lead ( 12 ) Feed materials 10 with the exception of: — forage ( 3 ); 30 — phosphates, calcareous marine algae and calcareous marine shells; 15 — calcium carbonate; calcium and magnesium carbonate ( 10 ); 20 — yeasts. 5 Feed additives belonging to the functional group of compounds of trace elements 100 with the exception of: — zinc oxide; 400 — manganous oxide, ferrous carbonate, cupric carbonate, copper (I) oxide. 200 Feed additives belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents 30 with the exception of: — clinoptilolite of volcanic origin; natrolite-phonolite. 60 Premixtures ( 6 ) 200 Complementary feed 10 with the exception of: — mineral feed; 15 — long-term supply formulations of feed for particular nutritional purposes with a concentration of trace elements higher than 100 times the established maximum content in complete feed. 60 Complete feed. 5’ (4) Row 5 of Section I, Mercury, is replaced by the following: Undesirable substance Products intended for animal feed Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) relative to a feed with a moisture content of 12 % ‘5. Mercury ( 4 ) Feed materials 0,1 with the exception of: — fish, other aquatic animals and products derived thereof intended for the production of compound feed for food producing animals; 0,5 — fish, other aquatic animals and products derived thereof intended for the production of compound feed for dogs, cats, ornamental fish and fur animals; 1,0 ( 13 ) — fish, other aquatic animals and products derived thereof as canned wet feed material for direct feeding of dogs and cats 0,3 — calcium carbonate; calcium and magnesium carbonate ( 10 ). 0,3 Compound feed 0,1 with the exception of: — mineral feed; 0,2 — compound feed for fish; 0,2 — compound feed for dogs, cats, ornamental fish and fur animals. 0,3’ (5) In row 1 of Section III, Free gossypol, in the column ‘Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) relative to a feed with a moisture content of 12 %’, the figure for the maximum level for cottonseed is replaced by ‘6 000’; (6) In row 1 of Section V, Dioxins, in the column ‘Products intended for animal feed’, the fourth entry, concerning the feed additives kaolinitic clay, vermiculite, natrolite-phonolite, synthetic calcium aluminates and clinoptilolite of sedimentary origin belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents, is replaced by the following: ‘Feed additives belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents ( *1 ) . ( *1 ) The maximum level is also applicable to the feed additives belonging to the functional groups of substances for the control of radionuclide contamination and substances for reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins which are also belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents.’;" (7) In row 2 of Section V, Sum of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs, in the column ‘Products intended for animal feed’, the fourth entry, concerning the feed additives kaolinitic clay, vermiculite, natrolite-phonolite, synthetic calcium aluminates and clinoptilolite of sedimentary origin belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents, is replaced by the following: ‘Feed additives belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents ( *2 ) . ( *2 ) the maximum level is also applicable to the feed additives belonging to the functional groups of substances for the control of radionuclide contamination and substances for reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins which are also belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents.’;" (8) In row 3 of Section V, Non-dioxin-like PCBs, in the column ‘Products intended for animal feed’, the fourth entry, concerning the feed additives kaolinitic clay, vermiculite, natrolite-phonolite, synthetic calcium aluminates and clinoptilolite of sedimentary origin belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents, is replaced by the following: ‘Feed additives belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents ( *3 ) . ( *3 ) The maximum level is also applicable to the feed additives belonging to the functional groups of substances for the control of radionuclide contamination and substances for reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins which are also belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents.’." ( *1 ) The maximum level is also applicable to the feed additives belonging to the functional groups of substances for the control of radionuclide contamination and substances for reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins which are also belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents.’; ( *2 ) the maximum level is also applicable to the feed additives belonging to the functional groups of substances for the control of radionuclide contamination and substances for reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins which are also belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents.’; ( *3 ) The maximum level is also applicable to the feed additives belonging to the functional groups of substances for the control of radionuclide contamination and substances for reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins which are also belonging to the functional groups of binders and anti-caking agents.’.’

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