Food Law News - EU - 2019

Council Minutes, 16 September 2019

CONTAMINANTS: Council discussions - Reference points for action for non-allowed pharmacologically active substances present in food of animal origin

The following is an extract from the Minutes of the General Affairs Council meeting on the 16 September 2019

The Council decided not to oppose the adoption of a Commission regulation aimed at introducing rules for the establishment of:

• reference points for action for residues of pharmacologically actives substances;
• scientific methods for the risk assessment of the safety of reference points for action;
• actions to be taken in the case of a confirmed presence of a residue of a prohibited or nonallowed substance at levels above, equal to or below the reference point for action established (11246/19 + ADD 1).