This Regulation lays down the maximum levels for certain contaminants (nitrates, mycotoxins, heavy metals, monochloropropane and diol) in the foodstuffs referred to in Annex I, including vegetables, fruit, nuts and dried fruit, cereals, grain, rice, infant formulae and follow-on formulae, meat, fishery products, crustaceans, bivalve molluscs, fats and oils, fruits juices and wine. Member States shall transmit annually to the European Commission the results of their monitoring and reports on the measures taken as well as the progress made with regard to the application and improvement of codes of good agricultural practice.
2001-03-08