ANNEX IIMAXIMUM PERMITTED LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF MINOR FOOD

1.List of minor food

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

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

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-13721

12 500

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