Council Regulation (Euratom) 2016/52 of 15 January 2016 laying down maximum permitted levels of radioactive contamination of food and feed following a nuclear accident or any other case of radiological emergency, and repealing Regulation (Euratom) No 3954/87 and Commission Regulations (Euratom) No 944/89 and (Euratom) No 770/90
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| CN code | Description |
|---|---|
| 0703 20 00 | Garlic (fresh or chilled)) |
| 0709 59 50 | Truffles (fresh or chilled) |
| 0709 99 40 | Capers (fresh or chilled) |
| 0711 90 70 | Capers (provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption) |
| ex 0712 39 00 | Truffles (dried, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared) |
| 0714 | Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith |
| 0814 00 00 | Peel of citrus fruit or melons (including watermelons), fresh, frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions |
| 0903 00 00 | Maté |
| 0904 | Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta |
| 0905 00 00 | Vanilla |
| 0906 | Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers |
| 0907 00 00 | Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems) |
| 0908 | Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms |
| 0909 | Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries |
| 0910 | Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices |
| 1106 20 | Flour, meal and powder of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 0714 |
| 1108 14 00 | Manioc (cassava) starch |
| 1210 | Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin |
| 1211 | Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered, except plants or parts of plants used for food production |
| 1301 | Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for example, balsams) |
| 1302 | Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products |
| 1504 | Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified |
| 1604 31 00 | Caviar |
| 1604 32 00 | Caviar substitutes |
| 1801 00 00 | Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted |
| 1802 00 00 | Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste |
| 1803 | Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted |
| 2003 90 10 | Truffles (prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid) |
| 2006 00 | Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised) |
| 2102 | Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading 3002); prepared baking powders |
| 2936 | Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent |
| 3301 | Essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids; extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, in waxes or the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils |
| a Carbon-14, tritium and potassium-40 are not included in this group. | |
| Isotope group | Bq/kg |
|---|---|
| Sum of isotopes of strontium, notably Sr-90 | 7 500 |
| Sum of isotopes of iodine, notably I-131 | 20 000 |
| Sum of alpha-emitting isotopes of plutonium and transplutonium elements, notably Pu-239 and Am-241 | 800 |
| Sum of all other nuclides of half-life greater than 10 days, notably Cs-134 and Cs-137a | 12 500 |
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