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WRITTEN QUESTION E-2192/03 by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission. Testing methods for dairy products.
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2192/03 by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission. Testing methods for dairy products.
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2192/03 by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission. Testing methods for dairy products.
UL C 33E, 6.2.2004, pp. 232–233
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- Date of document:
- 02/07/2003; datum pošiljanja:
- Date of dispatch:
- 02/07/2003
- Date of reply:
- 04/08/2003; Pisni odgovor
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- Evropski parlament, Not available
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- Pisno vprašanje
- Addressee:
- Evropska komisija
- Parliamentary term:
- Peto zakonodajno obdobje
- Political group:
- Skupina socialdemokratov v Evropskem parlamentu
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WRITTEN QUESTION E-2192/03
by Paulo Casaca (PSE) to the Commission
(2 July 2003)
Subject: Testing methods for dairy products
Could the Commission supply an updated list of the Community legislation in force relating to testing methods and inspection techniques used for milk and dairy products, with particular reference to methods for detecting micro-organisms?
Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission
(4 August 2003)
Analyses and tests normally carried out on milk and milk products aim at controlling, on the one hand, their safety and on the other hand, their quality and composition.
With regard to the safety of milk and milk products, the relevant requirements currently in force are those laid down in Council Directive 92/46/EEC of 16 June 1992 laying down the health rules for the production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products (1). Certain reference methods used to test against the different criteria set out in the above Directive are laid down in Commission Decision 91/180/EEC of 14 February 1991 laying down certain methods of analysis and testing of raw milk and heat-treated milk (2). However, some of the methods have been subject to adaptations or replaced by new techniques, since they were prescribed in this Decision, in accordance with the recommendations of the Community Reference Laboratory (CRL) for the analysis and testing of milk and milk products. It is indeed one of the duties of this laboratory to provide national reference laboratories (NRLs) with details and updating of analytical methods, to co-ordinate research into new analytical methods and to inform NRLs of advances in this field. The Commission together with the CRL is currently preparing an amendment to Decision 91/180/EEC to be proposed in the near future for approval by the Member States. This will be based on the latest list of reference methods recommended by the CRL. This list will be sent direct to the Honourable Member and to Parliament's Secretariat for information.
In addition, food business operators may use, in routine testing, alternative analytical methods when these methods provide equivalent guarantees and have been validated against the reference methods set above. These alternative methods are not subject to official listing in Community legislation.
