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Ref : EIC 230/2/12
20 January 2014
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 74/2014
European Union (EU)* : Maximum Residue Limits of Pharmacologically Active Substances in Foodstuffs of Animal Origin
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 976/2013 of 6 December 2013, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted two Regulations revising the list of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin. Details are set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) Nos 19/2014 and 20/2014, which can be accessed through the following links:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2014:008:0018:0019:EN:PDF
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2014:008:0020:0021:EN:PDF
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2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Anita WONG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU includes 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.
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