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Ref : EIC 230/2/12
12 February 2016
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 170/2016
European Union (EU)* : Maximum Residue Limits of Pharmacologically Active Substances in Foodstuffs of Animal Origin
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 1154/2015 of 4 December 2015, the European Commission has adopted a Regulation revising the list of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin concerning the substance "purified semi-solid extract from Humulus lupulus L. containing approximately 48 % of beta acids (as potassium salts)". Details are set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/129, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0129&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 Anna CHEUNG)
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.
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