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Ref.: EIC 230/2/12

12 January 2017

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 38/2017

European Union (EU)* : Maximum Residue Limits of Pharmacologically Active Substances in Foodstuffs of Animal Origin

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 170/2016 dated 12 February 2016, the European Commission has adopted three Regulations revising the list of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin concerning the maximum residue limits on substances "monepantel", "gamithromycin" and "aluminium salicylate, basic". Details are set out in Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2016/1834, 2016/2045 and 2016/2074 respectively, which can be accessed through the following links:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R1834&from=EN
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R2045&from=EN
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R2074&from=EN

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2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5556.

Yours faithfully,

(Charles LO)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU member countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.