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Regulatory News
NEW FOOD HYGIENE REGULATIONS ENTERING INTO FORCE IN 2006
A package comprising five food hygiene Regulations has entered into force on January 1st, 2006, aimed at reorganizing, harmonizing and simplifying the whole hygiene sector. The overall objective is to create a single hygiene policy applicable to all food and food operators, together with instruments to manage food safety and potential future crises, throughout the food chain.
- Regulation 852/2004/EC, establishing general principles for hygiene of foodstuffs over the entire process of production, transformation, distribution and retailing, including export, and widening the application of HACCP;
- Regulation 853/2004/EC, laying down specific rules for processed and processed food of animal origin, with emphasis to animal and public health rules, animal welfare requirements and requirements concerning the traceability of such products;
- Regulation 854/2004/EC relative to the organization of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption;
- Regulation 882/2004/EC on official controls performed to verify compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules;
- Regulation 2073/2005/EC, on criteria for microbiological safety of foodstuffs, that includes maximum limits of pathogens and the indication of the stage where these limits shall apply.
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