DETECTION OF ANTIBIOTIC AND SULFONAMIDE/DAPSON RESIDUES IN SKIMMED MILK POWDER

Commission Decision 98/536/EC of 3 September 1998 establishing the list of national reference laboratories for the detection of residues (OJ L 251, 11.9.1998, p. 39).

Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the requirements of Article 3 (I) (A) and without prejudice to Community rules on the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues, fresh poultrymeat or poultry is subjected:

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 of 26 June 1990 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin (3), and in particular Annexes I and III thereto, is applicable as regards the maximum residue levels for pharmacologically active substances in milk;

Member States shall supplement their plans for measures on residues referred to in Article 4 of Council Directive 86/469/EEC of 16 September 1986 concerning the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues (1) in order to subject rabbits and farmed game to the inspections provided for in that Directive and also to monitor wild game for contaminants present in the environment.

Guidelines for predicting dietary intake of pesticide residues (revised), prepared by the GEMS/Food Programme in collaboration with the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues, published by the World Health Organisation 1997 (WHO/FSF/FOS/97.7)

Member States shall supplement their plans for measures to detect residues referred to in Article 4 of Council Directive 86/469/EEC of 16 September 1986 concerning the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues (1) in order, where necessary, to subject wild game meat to the inspections provided for in that Directive in order to make spot checks on the presence of contaminants in the environment.

Whereas import of fresh meat from the establishments appearing in the Annex remains subject to Community provisions laid down elsewhere, in particular concerning animal health, examination for the presence of residues in fresh meat, prohibition of the use in livestock farming of certain substances having a hormonal action;

Methods for determining residues (e.g. biotest)

whereas provision should be made for reference methods for detecting residues other than heavy metals and arsenic;

METHODS OF SAMPLING PRODUCTS OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ORIGIN FOR THE DETERMINATION OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES FOR CHECKING COMPLIANCE WITH MRLS

Description of the qualitative and quantitative analytical methods for determining residues of additives in animal produce.

Whereas Commission Decision 90/515/EEC (6) lays down the reference methods for detecting residues of heavy metals and arsenic;

The method for detecting antibiotic and sulphonamide/dapson residues in skimmed-milk powder is described in Annex XXI.

The routine analytical procedures authorized for detecting residues of substances having a hormonal or a thyrostatic action shall be the following:

Whereas Commission Decision 93/256/EEC (5) lays down the methods to be used for detecting residues of substances having a hormonal or a thyrostatic action;

COMMISSION DECISION of 14 April 1993 laying down the methods to be used for detecting residues of substances having a hormonal or a thyrostatic action

COMMISSION DECISION of 15 April 1993 laying down the reference methods and the list of national reference laboratories for detecting residues

The criteria applicable to routine methods for the analysis of residues of substances having a hormonal or a thyrostatic action are set out in the Annex.

Methods of sampling for the determination of pesticides residues for compliance with maximum residue levels (MRLs) were developed and agreed by the Codex Alimentarius Commission(8).

Supplementary residue trials only need to be performed where it is not possible to extrapolate from data obtained on the active substance in accordance to the requirements of Annex II, Section 6, point 6.3.

It is also possible to combine a fish metabolism study with a bioconcentration study by analysis and identification of the residues in tissues.

for which no reagents or equipment exist for use in the analytical techniques for detecting the presence of residues in excess of the permitted limits,

Whereas the analytical procedures adopted must be sufficiently sensitive to detect the presence of residues of substances having a hormonal or a thyrostatic action;

WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO ARTICLE 5 OF DIRECTIVE 81/602/EEC , THE ANIMALS OR MEAT MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A SAMPLING EXAMINATION FOR RESIDUES.

Having regard to Council Directive 86/469/EEC of 16 September 1986 concerning the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues (3), and in particular Article 7 thereof,

'approved laboratory` shall mean a laboratory approved by the competent authorities of a Member State for the purposes of examining an official sample in order to detect the presence of residues;

Council Directive 86/469/EEC of 16 September 1986 concerning the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues (OJ L 275, 26.9.1986, p. 36), as amended by:

WHEREAS THE PRINCIPLE SHOULD BE ADOPTED UNDER WHICH SAMPLING INSPECTIONS FOR THE PRESENCE OF RESIDUES OF SUBSTANCES LIKELY TO AFFECT ADVERSELY THE WHOLESOMENESS OF FRESH MEAT;

This examination shall check for residues both of substances having pharmacological action and of the conversion products thereof, and for other substances transmitted to meat which are likely to be harmful to human health.

THIS EXAMINATION SHALL BE CARRIED OUT TO CHECK FOR BOTH RESIDUES OF SUBSTANCES HAVING A PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION AND OF THE CONVERSION PRODUCTS THEREOF AND OTHER SUBSTANCES TRANSMITTED TO MEAT WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE DANGEROUS TO HUMAN HEALTH.

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 of 26 June 1990 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin (9), and in particular Annexes I and III thereto, is applicable as regards the maximum residue levels for pharmacologically active substances in milk;

Member States shall supplement their plans for measures on residues referred to in Article 4 of Council Directive 86/469/EEC of 16 September 1986 concerning the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues (14) in order to subject rabbits and farmed game to the inspections provided for in that Directive and also to monitor wild game for contaminants present in the environment.

"Guidelines for predicting dietary intake of pesticide residues" (revised), prepared by the GEMS/Food programme in collaboration with the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues, published by the World Health Organisation 1997 (WHO/FSF/FOS/97.7).

Member States shall supplement their plans for measures to detect residues referred to in Article 4 of Council Directive 86/469/EEC of 16 September 1986 concerning the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues (12) in order, where necessary, to subject wild game meat to the inspections provided for in that Directive in order to make spot checks on the presence of contaminants in the environment.

The objective of these sampling procedures is to enable a representative sample to be obtained from a lot for analysis to determine compliance with maximum residue levels (MRLs) for pesticides established in the Annexes to Council Directives 76/895/EEC, 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC and, in the absence of Community MRLs, with other MRLs such as those established by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

Whereas by Commission Decision 90/135/EEC (9), as last amended by Decision 91/486/EEC (10), the plans specifying the guarantees offered by certain third countries, in respect of the examination for residues of substances other than those having a hormonal action, are taken into account;

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1937/2002 of 30 October 2002 amending Annexes II and III to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1873/2003 of 24 October 2003 amending Annex II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin(2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2145/2003 of 8 December 2003 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin(4) is to be incorporated into the Agreement,

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2011/2003 of 14 November 2003 amending Annexes I and III to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin(3) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

The provisions laid down in this Directive apply to the sampling of products of plant and animal origin in order to determine the level of pesticide residues for the purposes of Directives 76/895/EEC, 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC and do not affect the sampling strategy, sampling levels and frequency as specified in Annexes III and IV to Council Directive 96/23/EC(9) on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products.

Whereas by Commission Decision 89/15/EEC (7), as last amended by Decision 91/487/EEC (8), Member States authorize imports of live animals and fresh meat from third countries who gave guarantees in relation to the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues of substances having a hormonal action;

according to Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 of 26 June 1990 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin(6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1308/99(7), with effect from 1 January 2000 the administration to food-producing animals of veterinary medicinal products containing pharmacologically active substances which are not mentioned in Annexes I, II or III to that Regulation shall be prohibited within the Community without exemption.

In the case of the products referred to in Article 1, other than those imported from third countries or intended for other Member States, Member States may, by way of derogation from Article 4, continue to apply a system of monitoring already in force on their territory for the presence of pesticide residues together with any other measure in order to ensure that an effect equivalent to the levels of pesticide residues laid down in Annex II is obtained, and to assess the total dietary exposure of their population to these residues, whatever their source.