Sampling Advice: Mycotoxins in Foodstuffs

Thursday 27 September 2007

The purpose of this document is to provide information to enforcement authorities and food business operators on the legislation regarding mycotoxins in foodstuffs and the official methods of sampling cereals, dried fruit, groundnuts, nuts, products derived from nuts, spices, coffee, fruit juice, cider, milk, wine and apple products for mycotoxins.

This document should be read in conjunction with the relevant legislation. It is not a statutory code of practice nor a substitute for the Regulations, Decisions and Statutory Instruments to which it refers.