Vietnam: EU issues new regulations on chemical residues in agricultural products and food

Specifically, agricultural products and foods such as fresh and frozen vegetables, tubers and fruits; Group of cashew nuts, coffee, tea, spices, cereals, oilseeds and terrestrial animal products of all kinds, eggs, milk, honey... MRL levels of active ingredients across product types vary from 0.01 mg/kg. However, the EU also sets a regulated level of residue MRL of one of the above active ingredients from 0.05 mg/kg, 0.07 even 1.5 mg/kg in product groups such as vegetables, tubers, spices, meat and offal of animals. In 2023, the EU focused on revising many of the MRL regulations in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. This regulation will take effect from September 26, 2023. Along with that, the European Commission has also issued new Regulations related to the maximum arsenic MRL levels in certain foods such as rice, rice-based products, baby nutritional foods, perfumes and perfumes. fruit, concentrated fruit products, salt. The Arsenic MRL threshold ranges from 0.01 to 0.15 mg/kg of ...