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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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ANNEX IIU.K. MAXIMUM PERMITTED LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF MINOR FOOD

1.List of minor foodU.K.

CN codeDescription
0703 20 00Garlic (fresh or chilled))
0709 59 50Truffles (fresh or chilled)
0709 99 40Capers (fresh or chilled)
0711 90 70Capers (provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption)
ex 0712 39 00Truffles (dried, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared)
0714Manioc, 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 00Peel 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 00Maté
0904Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta
0905 00 00Vanilla
0906Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers
0907 00 00Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems)
0908Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms
0909Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries
0910Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices
1106 20Flour, meal and powder of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 0714
1108 14 00Manioc (cassava) starch
1210Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
1211Plants 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
1301Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for example, balsams)
1302Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products
1504Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
1604 31 00Caviar
1604 32 00Caviar substitutes
1801 00 00Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
1802 00 00Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste
1803Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted
2003 90 10Truffles (prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid)
2006 00Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised)
2102Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading 3002); prepared baking powders
2936Provitamins 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
3301Essential 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

2.The maximum permitted levels to be applied to the minor food as listed in point 1 shall not exceed the following:U.K.

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Carbon-14, tritium and potassium-40 are not included in this group.

Isotope groupBq/kg
Sum of isotopes of strontium, notably Sr-907 500
Sum of isotopes of iodine, notably I-13120 000
Sum of alpha-emitting isotopes of plutonium and transplutonium elements, notably Pu-239 and Am-241800
Sum of all other nuclides of half-life greater than 10 days, notably Cs-134 and Cs-137a12 500

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