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Maximum levels of cadmium in certain foods

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Food safety / Contaminants

Summary

The EU has increased the maximum levels for cadmium in tiger nuts and certain cultivated fungi to avoid disproportionate non-compliance rates, taking into account the "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA) principle.