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Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
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Undesirable substances | Products intended for animal feed | Maximum content in mg/kg of feeding stuffs referred to a moisture content of 12% |
Arsenic | Feed materials except: | 2 |
— 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 (of which the content of inorganic arsenic must be less than 2) | |
— phosphates and calcareous marine algae | 10 | |
— calcium carbonate | 15 | |
— magnesium oxide | 20 | |
— feeding stuffs obtained from the processing of fish or other marine animals | 15 (of which the content of inorganic arsenic must be less than 2) | |
— seaweed meal and feed materials derived from seaweed | 40 (of which the content of inorganic arsenic must be less than 2) | |
Complete feeding stuffs except: | 2 | |
— complete feeding stuffs for fish and fur-producing animals | 6 (of which the content of inorganic arsenic must be less than 2) | |
Complementary feeding stuffs except: | 4 | |
— mineral feeding stuffs | 12 | |
Note in respect of all entries in column 3 | ||
The maximum levels refer to total arsenic | ||
Cadmium | Feed materials of vegetable origin | 1 |
Feed materials of animal origin (with the exception of feeding stuffs for pets) | 2 | |
Phosphates | 10 | |
Complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (with the exception of complete feeding stuffs for calves, lambs and kids) | 1 | |
Other complete feeding stuffs (with the exception of feeding stuffs for pets) | 0.5 | |
Mineral feeding stuffs | 5 | |
Other complementary feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats | 0.5 | |
Dioxin (sum of polychlorinated dibenzo-para-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlor-inated dibenzo-furans (PCDFs) expressed in World Health Organisation (WHO) toxic equivalents, using the WHO-TEFs (toxic equivalency factors, 1997)) | All feed materials of plant origin including vegetable oils and by-products | 0.75 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg |
Minerals as listed in Section 11 of Part II of Schedule 2 | 1.0 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Kaolinitic clay, calcium sulphate dihydrate, vermiculite, natrolite-phonolite, synthetic calcium aluminates and clinoptilolite of sedimentary origin belonging to the group “binders, anti-caking agents and coagulants” authorised under the Additives Directive or the Additives Regulation | 0.75 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Animal fat, including milk fat and egg fat | 2.0 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Other land animal products including milk and milk products and eggs and egg products | 0.75 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Fish oil | 6 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Fish, other aquatic animals, their products and by-products with the exception of fish oil and fish protein hydrolysates containing more than 20% fat | 1.25 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Compound feeding stuffs, with the exception of feeding stuffs for fur animals, pet foods and feeding stuffs for fish | 0.75 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Feeding stuffs for fish and pet foods | 2.25 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Fish protein hydrolysates containing more than 20% fat | 2.25 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg | |
Note in respect of the entry in Column 2 relating to fish, other aquatic animals, their products and by-products with the exception of fish oil and fish protein hydrolysates containing more than 20% fat Fresh fish directly delivered and used without intermediate processing for the production of feeding stuffs for fur animals is exempted from the maximum limit and a maximum level of 4.0 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg product is applicable to fresh fish used for the direct feeding of pet animals, zoo and circus animals. The products, processed animal proteins produced from these animals (fur animals, pet animals, zoo and circus animals) cannot enter the food chain and the feeding thereof is prohibited to farmed animals which are kept, fattened or bred for the production of food | Note in respect of all the entries in Column 3 Upper-bound concentrations; upper-bound concentrations are calculated assuming that all values of the different congeners less than the limit of quantification are equal to the limit of quantification | |
Fluorine | Feed materials except: | 150 |
— feeding stuffs of animal origin with the exception of marine crustaceans such as marine krill | 500 | |
— phosphates and marine crustaceans such as marine krill | 2000 | |
— calcium carbonate | 350 | |
— magnesium oxide | 600 | |
— caslcareous marine algae | 1000 | |
Complete feeding stuffs except: | 150 | |
— complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats | ||
— in milk | 30 | |
— other | 50 | |
— complete feeding stuffs for pigs | 100 | |
— complete feeding stuffs for poultry | 350 | |
— complete feeding stuffs for chicks | 250 | |
Mineral mixtures for cattle, sheep and goats | 2000 | |
Other complementary feeding stuffs | 125 (fluorine content per percentage point phosphorus in the feeding stuff) | |
Lead | Feed materials except: | 10 |
— grass meal, lucerne meal or clover meal | 40 | |
— calcium carbonate | 20 | |
— phosphates and calcareous marine algae | 15 | |
— yeast | 5 | |
Complete feeding stuffs | 5 | |
Complementary feeding stuffs except: | 10 | |
— mineral feeding stuffs | 15 | |
Mercury | Feed materials except: | 0.1 |
— feed materials produced by the processing of fish or other marine animals | 0.5 | |
Complete feeding stuffs except: | 0.1 | |
— complete feeding stuffs for dogs or cats | 0.4 | |
Complementary feeding stuffs (with the exception of complementary feeding stuffs for dogs and cats) | 0.2 | |
Nitrates | Fish meal | 60 (expressed as sodium nitrite) |
Complete feeding stuffs except feeding stuffs intended for pets other than birds and aquarium fish | 15 (expressed as sodium nitrite) |
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