(1)

Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1871 (2) established reference points for action (‘RPA’) for certain non-allowed pharmacologically active substances present in food of animal origin, for which no maximum residue limits have been laid down. For semicarbazide (SEM), a metabolite of the nitrofuran nitrofurazone, the exemption of application of RPA is granted for certain processed products of animal origin unless other nitrofurans or their metabolites are found together with SEM in those processed products.

(2)

Based on data and information on investigations on the parameters and factors in the processing steps resulting in the formation of SEM during processing in those processed products provided by food business operators and other interested parties, a higher level of SEM can be found also in collagen as the consequence of processing and not related to the illegal use of nitrofurans. Therefore, collagen should be added to the exempted processed products of animal origin as regards the enforcement of RPA for SEM.

(3)

Since food business operators and other interested parties have provided requested data and information satisfactory by the deadline mentioned in footnote 2 in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2019/1871, this requirement should be deleted.

(4)

Regulation (EU) 2019/1871 should be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,