In addition to ensuring compliance with microbiological criteria adopted in accordance with Regulation (EC) No …/2004 ∗, food business operators must ensure that live bivalve molluscs placed on the market for human consumption meet the following standards :

1. They must have organoleptic characteristics associated with freshness and viability, including shells free of dirt, an adequate response to percussion and normal amounts of intravalvular liquid.

2. They must not contain marine biotoxins in total quantities (measured in the whole body or any part edible separately) that exceed the following limits:

• (a) for Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP), 800 micrograms per kilogram;
• (b) for Amnesic Shellfish Poison (ASP), 20 milligrams of domoic acid per kilogram;
• (c) for okadaic acid, dinophysistoxins and pectenotoxins together, 160 micrograms of okadaic acid equivalents per kilogram;
• (d) for yessotoxins, 1 milligram of yessotoxin equivalent per kilogram; and
• (e) for azaspiracids, 160 micrograms of azaspiracid equivalents per kilogram.

This obligation does not apply in relation to: (a) primary production for private domestic use; (b) the domestic preparation, handling or storage of food for private domestic consumption; (c) the direct supply, by the producer, of sma...Log in to see the rest ...

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