Commission Directive 98/60/EC of 24 July 1998 amending Council Directive 74/63/EEC on the fixing of maximum permitted levels for undesirable substances and products in feedingstuffs (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal nutrition, citrus fruit, food inspection, health risk, toxic substance, veterinary legislation

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Official Journal of the European Communities

25. 7. 98

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 98/60/EC

of 24 July 1998

amending Council Directive 74/63/EEC on the fixing of maximum permitted
levels for undesirable substances and products in feedingstuffs

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 74/63/EEC of 17
December 1973 on undesirable substances and products
in animal nutrition (1), as last amended by Commission
Directive 97/8/EC (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas citrus pulp pellets originating in or consigned
from Brazil were found to be contaminated by dioxins at
such high levels which pose a risk to human health;
whereas citrus pulp pellets are used as feed material;
whereas feedingstuffs contaminated by dioxins results in
dioxin contamination of food products of animal origin;
whereas dioxins are classified by the relevant international
organisations as carcinogenic to humans; whereas it is
recommended by these relevant international organisa-
tions to take measures to reduce the intake of dioxin
through diet as much as is reasonably achievable; it is,
therefore, appropriate to prohibit the use of citrus pulp
pellets contaminated by dioxins at unacceptable levels as
feedingstuff and for the production of compound feeding-
stuff;

Whereas all sources of contamination by dioxins at such
unacceptable levels has not been possible to be deter-
time
mined with sufficient certainty within the short
limits available; whereas, therefore, no sufficient guaran-
tees exist for the moment that the possible sources of
contamination have been removed from the production
process of citrus pulp pellets; whereas a more complete
scientific assessment of the tolerable maximum level for
dioxins cannot be performed within short notice; it is
therefore urgent to fix provisionally the maximum limit
at the detection level (500 pg I — TEQ/kg) whilst await-
ing the scientific assessment of the risk involved;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Standing
Committee for Feedingstuffs,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Annex I and Annex II, Part A to Directive 74/63/EEC are
hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.

(1) OJ L 38, 11. 2. 1974, p. 31.
(2) OJ L 48, 19. 2. 1997, p. 22.

This provision shall be reviewed before 1 January 1999
according to the availability of evidence concerning the
sources of contamination or of a scientific risk assessment.

Article 2

1. Member States shall adopt and publish not
later
than 31 July 1998 the laws, regulations and administrative
provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They
shall inform the Commission thereof forthwith.

The provisions adopted shall apply from 1 August 1998.

When the Member States adopt these provisions, they
shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be
accompanied by such reference at the time of their offi-
cial publication. The procedure for such reference shall be
adopted by the Member States.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commis-
sion the texts of the provisions of national law which they
adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force of the third day fol-
lowing its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 July 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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1.

In Annex I, under point ‘B. Products’ the following point 21 is added:

ANNEX

‘21. Dioxin (sum of PCDD and
PCDF), expressed in interna-
tional toxic equivalents

Citrus pulp

500 pg I — TEQ/kg (upper bound
detection limit) (1),

(1) Upper bound concentrations are calculated assuming that all values of the different congeners less than the limit of

detection are equal to the limit of detection.’

2.

In Annex II, Part A the following point 4 is added:

‘4. Dioxin (sum of PCDD and
PCDF), expressed in interna-
tional toxic equivalents

Citrus pulp

500 pg I — TEQ/kg (upper bound
detection limit) (1),

(1) Upper bound concentrations are calculated assuming that all values of the different congeners less than the limit of

detection are equal to the limit of detection.’