Consumer group: Aflatoxin "must not exceed 0.08"

The legal limit for aflatoxin in milk should be reduced to 0.05 micrograms per kilogram - "or, at most, to 0.08 micrograms".

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Monday, 04.03.2013.

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BELGRADE The legal limit for aflatoxin in milk should be reduced to 0.05 micrograms per kilogram - "or, at most, to 0.08 micrograms". This is according to Petar Bogosavljevic, president of the Belgrade Consumers Movement, who explained that this was "the amount to which instruments in the EU are calibrated". Consumer group: Aflatoxin "must not exceed 0.08" Until two years ago, the permitted level of the cancerogenic substance in Serbia was 0.5 micrograms per kilogram, when it was reduced to 0.05 - however, this decision was reversed last week. Bogosavljevic said consumer confidence needs to be restored as soon as possible in order to bring milk production and consumption back to normal, so the government should "urgently reconsider its decision to change the regulations". According to data which has been made public, around 30 percent of samples contain no trace of aflatoxins, and over 30 percent are in the "tolerable" zone of around 0.05 micrograms, Bogosavljevic told a news conference. Around 40 percent of the samples contain aflatoxin levels above those tolerated in the EU, and five percent had considerably higher quantities, said Bogosavljevic, citing data from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Vojvodina provincial Agriculture Secretariat. "Based on this data, the Serbian government should not have increased the level from that allowed by earlier regulations," said Bogosavljevic. He noted that any information related to health and food safety must not be "declared secret" and the public must be informed about everything, adding that labels need to include all details about a product. Bogosavljevic said the responsibility is shared by producers, inspectors, and dairies. Also on Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that the results of the super-analysis of samples of milk taken in Serbia, conducted in the Netherlands, would be announced on Wednesday. (Beta) B92 Tanjug

Consumer group: Aflatoxin "must not exceed 0.08"

Until two years ago, the permitted level of the cancerogenic substance in Serbia was 0.5 micrograms per kilogram, when it was reduced to 0.05 - however, this decision was reversed last week.

Bogosavljević said consumer confidence needs to be restored as soon as possible in order to bring milk production and consumption back to normal, so the government should "urgently reconsider its decision to change the regulations".

According to data which has been made public, around 30 percent of samples contain no trace of aflatoxins, and over 30 percent are in the "tolerable" zone of around 0.05 micrograms, Bogosavljević told a news conference.

Around 40 percent of the samples contain aflatoxin levels above those tolerated in the EU, and five percent had considerably higher quantities, said Bogosavljević, citing data from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Vojvodina provincial Agriculture Secretariat.

"Based on this data, the Serbian government should not have increased the level from that allowed by earlier regulations," said Bogosavljević.

He noted that any information related to health and food safety must not be "declared secret" and the public must be informed about everything, adding that labels need to include all details about a product.

Bogosavljević said the responsibility is shared by producers, inspectors, and dairies.

Also on Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that the results of the super-analysis of samples of milk taken in Serbia, conducted in the Netherlands, would be announced on Wednesday.

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