Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2783 of 14 December 2023 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the control of the levels of plant toxins in food and repealing Regulation (EU) 2015/705

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Article 1 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2782 shall apply.

1 Sampling for the control of the levels of plant toxins in food shall be carried out in accordance with the methods set out in Annex I.

2 In case of a food that cannot be classified in a food category for which a sampling procedure has been established in Annex I, the sampling procedure shall be determined having regard to the particle size of that food or the similarity of that food with a product that can be classified in one of the food categories in Annex I.

3 In case of a food that cannot be classified in any food category listed in Annex I and provided that there is evidence that the plant toxin is homogeneously distributed in such a food, the food shall be sampled using the sampling method laid down in Part B of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 333/2007 .

Sample preparation and methods of analysis used for the control of the levels of plant toxins in foodstuffs shall comply with the criteria set out in Annex II.

Regulation (EU) 2015/705 is hereby repealed. References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Implementing Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 April 2024. However, methods of analysis which have been validated before the entry into application of this Regulation may remain in use until 1 July 2028, even if they do not comply with all specific requirements provided for in point 4.2 in Annex II to this Regulation.