{"id":545288,"date":"2026-08-27T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/uncategorized\/regulation-eu-2015-1933-pah\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:55:15","slug":"regulation-eu-2015-1933-pah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/regulation-eu-2015-1933-pah\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation (EU) 2015\/1933 PAH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phytocontrol.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/photo-actu-hap-2015-1933.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2741\" src=\"http:\/\/phytocontrol.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/photo-actu-hap-2015-1933.jpg\" alt=\"photo actu hap 2015-1933\" width=\"400\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regulation (EU) 2015\/1933 amending Regulation (EU) 1881\/2006 as regards maximum levels of PAH was published in October 2015.<br \/>\nThis new regulation introduces maximum limits for the following additional matrices:<br \/>\n&#8211; Cocoa fibre and derived products of cocoa fibre<br \/>\n&#8211; Banana chips<br \/>\n&#8211; Food supplements containing botanical substances and their preparations, propolis, royal jelly, spirulina or their preparations<br \/>\n&#8211; Dried herbs<br \/>\n&#8211; Dried spices, with the exception of cardamom and smoked Capsicum spp.<br \/>\nThese new limits have applied since 20 November 2015 for cocoa fibre and derived products of cocoa fibre, and from 1 April 2016 for all other matrices.<br \/>\nBelow are the details of the limits introduced:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 553px;\" width=\"992\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"405\"><strong>Regulation (EU) 2015\/1933<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"381\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Matrices<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"192\"><strong>Benzo(a)pyrene (in \u00b5g\/kg)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sum of<br \/>\nBenzo(a)pyrene<br \/>\nBenz(a)anthracene<br \/>\nBenzo(b)fluoranthene<br \/>\nChrysene (in \u00b5g\/kg)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"381\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cocoa fibre and derived products of cocoa fibre, intended for use as food ingredients<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">3\u00b5g\/kg fresh weight<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"213\">15\u00b5g\/kg fresh weight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"381\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Banana chips<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">2<\/td>\n<td width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">20<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"381\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Food supplements containing botanical substances and their preparations<br \/>\nFood supplements containing propolis, royal jelly, spirulina or their preparations<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"192\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">50<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"381\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dried herbs<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"192\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">50<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"381\">Dried spices, with the exception of cardamom and smoked Capsicum spp.<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"192\">10<\/td>\n<td width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">50<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can find the regulation via the attached link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phytocontrol.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-1933-modif-1881-2006.pdf\">Regulation (EU) 2015\/1933<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For any technical, pricing and\/or regulatory information, please contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Regulation (EU) 2015\/1933 amending Regulation (EU) 1881\/2006 as regards maximum levels of PAH was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-regulatory-watch","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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