RE: limits for Cadmium

From: shetty t.seetharama (ts_shetty@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 10:06:49 PDT

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    Hi,
       
      EU regulation on MRL for Cadmium is : COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1881/2006 of 19 December 2006 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs.
       
      For Muscle meat of most of the fish excluding those listed below: 0.050 (mg/kg wet weight) Maximum levels
      Muscle meat of the following fish: 0.10 (mg/kg wet weight) Maximum levels
      anchovy (Engraulis species)
      bonito (Sarda sarda)
      common two-banded seabream (Diplodus vulgaris)
      eel (Anguilla anguilla)
      grey mullet (Mugil labrosus labrosus)
      horse mackerel or scad (Trachurus species)
      louvar or luvar (Luvarus imperialis)
      sardine (Sardina pilchardus)
      sardinops (Sardinops species)
      tuna (Thunnus species, Euthynnus species, Katsuwonus pelamis)
      wedge sole (Dicologoglossa cuneata)
       
      Muscle meat of swordfish (Xiphias gladius): 0.30 (mg/kg wet weight) Maximum levels
      Crustaceans, excluding brown meat of crab and excluding head and thorax meat of lobster and similar large crustaceans (Nephropidae and Palinuridae) : 0.50 (mg/kg wet weight) Maximum levels
      Bivalve molluscs: 1.0 (mg/kg wet weight) Maximum levels
      Cephalopods (without viscera): 1.0 (mg/kg wet weight) Maximum levels
       
      Have a good day,
       
      ShettyTS
      

    Vanessa Broadnax <vanessa@baldorfood.com> wrote:
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      Salutations:
      There is an abundance of material on the internet. Try “cadmium levels in fish”
      Links:
      www.springerlink.com
      www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
      One Example:
      Christopher J. Schmitt1 and William G. Brumbaugh1
              (1)
        U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fisheries Contaminant Research Center, Route 2, 4200 New Haven Road, 65201 Columbia, Missouri, USA
      Received: 5 May 1989 Revised: 10 June 1989
      Abstract From late 1984 to early 1985, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service collected a total of 315 composite samples of whole fish from 109 stations nationwide, which were analyzed for arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, selenium, and zinc. Geometric mean, maximum, and 85th percentile concentrations (g/g wet weight) for 1984 samples were as follows: arsenic-0.14, 1.5, 0.27; cadmium-0.03, 0.22, 0.05; copper-0.65, 23.1, 1.0; mercury-0.10, 0.37, 0.17; lead-0.11, 4.88, 0.22; selenium-0.42, 2.30, 0.73; and zinc-21.7, 118.4, 34.2. The mean concentrations of selenium and lead were significantly lower than in the previous NCBP collection (1980–81). Mean concentrations of arsenic and cadmium also declined significantly between 1976, when elemental contaminants in fish were first measured in the NCBP, and 1984. Of greatest significance, lead concentrations declined steadily from 1976 to 1984, suggesting that regulatory measures have successfully reduced the influx of lead to
     the aquatic environment.
       
      VanessaC.Broadnax,MS Tech.Mgmt.,CQA,CMQOE
      HACCP Manager
      Baldor Specialty Foods Inc.
      511 Barry Street
      Bronx, New York 10474
      Telephone: 718.304.4536
      Fax: 718.328.9944
      Committed To Food Safety
       
      -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of germeade01@eircom.net
    Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:29 AM
    To: seafood@ucdavis.edu
    Subject: Re: limits for Cadmium in value added product
       
      Dear all,
      May I extend this question to find if there is any legislation specific to product derivatives such as chowders and stocks, crab cakes or other value added products?
       
      Does any one know of any reported problems of increased cadmium levels in such products?
       
      I would appreciate any guidance on this issue all computer searches have been in vain.
       
      Many thanks,
      Ger Meade
       
       
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    > Regards
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    > Vinod
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