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Ref : EIC 230/2/12

27 July 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 700/2015

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

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 122/2015 of 9 February 2015, the European Commission has adopted three Regulations revising the list of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin concerning the substances "clodronic acid (in form of disodium salt)", "hexaflumuron" and "propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate and its sodium salt". Details are set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1078, 2015/1079 and 2015/1080, which can be accessed through the following links:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32015R1078&from=EN
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32015R1079&from=EN
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32015R1080&from=EN

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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 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.