SUBSTANCE
/MARKER RESIDUE
/ ANIMAL SPECIES / MRL (µg/kg) & TARGET TISSUES / PROVISIONS / ANNEX / REG. No.[1]MRLs published in OJ of the European Community
(This document has been compiled by IFAH-Europe and is for information only).
Status: 05 March 2008
FROM A to H
SUBSTANCE / MARKER RESIDUE / ANIMAL SPECIES / MRL (µg/kg) & TARGET TISSUES / PROVISIONS / ANNEX / REG. No.17-ß-OESTRADIOL / All mammalian food producing species / For therapeutic and zootechnical uses only / II / 3059/94
ABAMECTIN / Avermectin B1a / Bovine / 20 - liver
10 - fat / I / 3425/93
Ovine / 20 - muscle, kidney
50 - fat
25 - liver / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2001 / III / 2728/99
Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption. / I / 868/02
ABSINTHIUM EXTRACT / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
ACETYL CYSTEINE / All food producing species / II / 1430/94
ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID / Bovine / Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / II / 750/01
Porcine / II / 750/01
Chicken / Not for use in animals from which eggs are produced for human consumption / II / 750/01
All food producing species except fish / Not for use in animals from which milk or eggs are produced for human consumption / II / 1029/03
ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID DL-LYSINE / Bovine / Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / II / 750/01
Porcine / II / 750/01
Chicken / Not for use in animals from which eggs are produced for human consumption / II / 750/01
All food producing species except fish / Not for use in animals from which milk or eggs are produced for human consumption / II / 1029/03
ACETYLISOVALERYLTYLOSIN
NOTE: entry replaced with Tylvalosin – Commission Regulation No 1353/2007 / Sum of acetylisovaleryltylosin and 3-Q-acetyltylosin / Porcine / 100 - muscle, skin and fat, liver, kidney / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.2001 / III / 1286/00
50 – muscle, skin and fat, liver, kidney / I / 77/2002
Poultry (1) / 50 – Skin, Fat
50 - Liver / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.2006
Not eggs for human consumption / III / 75/2005
(1) Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / I / 1518/2005
ACETYLMETHIONINE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
ACQUA LEVICI / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias only / II / 998/99
ADENOSINE AND ITS 5'-MONO-, 5'-di- AND 5'-TRIPHOSPHATES / All food producing species / II / 1931/99
ADONIS VERNALIS / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations in the products not exceeding one part per hundred only / II / 998/99
AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations in the products not exceeding one part per ten only / II / 2728/99
AGNUS CASTUS / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations corresponding to the mother tincture and dilutions thereof only / II / 2728/99
AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations corresponding to the mother tincture and dilutions thereof only / II / 2728/99
ALANINE / All food producing species / II / 1931/99
ALBENDAZOLE / Sum of albendazole & metabolites measured as 2-amino-
benzimidazole sulphone / Bovine, ovine / 100 - muscle, fat, milk
500 - kidney
1000 - liver / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.96
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.1998 / III / 3093/92
1798/96
Sum of albendazole sulphoxide, albendazole sulphone, and albendazole 2-amino sulphone, expressed as albendazole / Bovine, ovine / 100 - muscle, fat, milk
500 - kidney
1000 - liver / I / 1191/98
All ruminants / 100 - muscle, fat, milk
500 - kidney
1000 - liver / I / 1646/04
ALBENDAZOLE OXIDE / Sum of albendazole oxide, albendazole sulphone and albendazole 2-aminosulphone, expressed as albendazole / Bovine, ovine / 100 - muscle, fat, milk
1000 - liver
500 - kidney / I / 2393/99
ALBENDAZOLE SULPHOXIDE / Sum of albendazole, albendazole sulphoxide, albendazole sulphone, & abendazole 2-amino
sulphone, expressed as albendazole / Bovine, ovine, pheasant
Bovine, ovine / 1000 - liver
500 - kidney
100 - muscle, fat
100 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.1998 / III / 17/97
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2000 / III / 613/98
ALFACALCIDOL / Bovine / For parturient cows only / II / 1917/98
ALFAPROSTOL / Bovine, porcine, equidae
Rabbits / II
II / 270/97
2560/98
ALLANTOIN
ALLIUM CEPA / All food producing species
All food producing species / For topical use only.
For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations corresponding to the mother tincture and dilutions thereof only / II
II / 868/02
2728/99
ALOES, BARBADOS AND CAPAE, their standardised dry extract and preparations thereof / All food producing species / II / 2728/99
ALOE VERA GEL and whole leaf extract of Aloe vera / All food-producing species / For topical use only / II / 2758/99
ALPHACYPERMETHRIN / Cypermethrin (sum of isomers) / Bovine, ovine / 20 - muscle, liver, kidney, milk
200 - fat / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2002
Further provisions in Council Directive 93/57/EC OJ L 211, 23.8.1992, p. 1 are to be observed) / III / 954/99
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.2003
Further provisions Council Dir. 93/57/EC. / III / 869/02
Milk: further provisions in Commission Directive 98/82/EC are to be observed (OJ L 290, 29.10.1998 p.25) / I / 2011/03
Chicken / 50 - muscle, skin + fat, liver, kidney, eggs / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2002 / III / 954/99
ALTRENOGEST / Altrenogest / Porcine, Equidae / 3 – fat, liver, kidney / Provisional MRLs expire on 01.01.2003
For zootechnical use only / III / 2584/01
Equidae / 3 – fat, liver, kidney / Provisional MRLs expire on 01.01.2005
For zootechnical use only / III / 1530/02
Porcine / 3 – skin and fat, liver, kidney
Porcine / 1 - skin and fat
0.4 - Liver / Only for zootechnical use and in accordance with the provisions of Directive 96/22/EC / I / 2232/04
Equidae / 1 – Fat
0.9 - Liver
ALUMINIUM CHLORIDE / All food producing species / II / 1916/98
ALUMINIUM DISTEARATE / All food producing species / II / 1916/98
ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE ACETATE / All food producing species / II / 1916/98
ALUMINIUM MONOSTEARATE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
ALUMINIUM PHOSPHATE / All food producing species / II / 1916/98
ALUMINIUM SALICYLATE, basic / All food producing species except fish / For topical use only / II / 1286/00
Bovine / For oral use only; not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption. / II / 1937/02
ALUMINIUM TRISTEARATE / All food producing species / II / 1916/98
2-AMINOETHANOL / All food producing species / II / 1076/98
2-AMINOETHANOL GLUCURONATE / All food producing species / II / 2393/99
2-AMINOEHTYL DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE / All food producing species / II / 1568/98
AMINOSIDINE / Aminosidine / Bovine, porcine, rabbits, chicken / 500 - muscle
1500 - liver, kidney / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.1998 / III / 2017/96
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.2000 / III / 508/99
AMITRAZ / Sum of amitraz & all metabolites containing the 2,4-DMA moiety expressed as amitraz / Porcine / 50 – muscle
200 – kidney, liver / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.94
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.96 / III
III / 3093/92
1430/94
400 - fat + skin
200 - liver, kidney / I / 1742/96
Bovine / 200 - liver, kidney, fat
10 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.98 / III / 1742/96
I / 1916/98
Ovine / 400 - fat
200 - liver, kidney / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.98 / III / 1742/96
400 - fat
100 - liver,
200 - kidney
10 - milk / I / 1916/98
Caprine / 200 - fat, kidney
100 - liver
10 - milk / I / 1646/04
Bees / 200 - honey / Provisional MRLs expire on 1/7/99 / III / 1836/97
I / 2393/99
AMMONIUM CHLORIDE / All food producing species / II / 508/99
AMMONIUM LAURYL SULPHATE / All food producing species / II / 2162/01
AMMONIUM SULFATE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
AMOXICILLIN / Parent drug / All food producing species / 50 - muscle, liver, kidney, fat
4 - milk / I / 675/92
AMPROLIUM / Amprolium / Chicken, turkey / 200 - muscle
200 - skin and fat
200 - liver
400 - kidney
1000 - eggs / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2002 / III / 1295/00
Poultry / For oral use only / II / 1478/01
AMPICILLIN / Parent drug / All food producing species / 50 - muscle, liver, kidney, fat
4 - milk / I / 675/92
Angelicae radix aetheroleum / All food producing species / II / 2560/98
Anisi aetheroleum / All food producing species / II / 2560/98
anisi stellati fRUctus, standardised extracts and preparations thereof / All food producing species / II / 2338/00
Apis mellifica / No recommendation
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM / All food producing species / For use in homeophathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations in the products not exceeding one part per hundred only. For oral use only / II / 1942/99
APRAMYCIN / Apramycin / Bovine / 1000 - muscle, fat
10000 - liver
20000 - kidney / For use in non-lactating cattle only.
Provisional MRLs expire on 1/7/99 / III / 1838/97
Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / I / 1931/99
Porcine / 1000 - muscle, skin + fat, liver
5000 - kidney / Provisional MRLs expire on 1/7/99 / III / 1838/97
Porcine, rabbits
Ovine
Chicken / For oral use only
Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption
Not for use in animals from which eggs are produced for human consumption / II / 1931/99
ARGININE / All food producing species / II / 1931/99
ARNICA MONTANA (arnica flos and arnica planta to ta) / All food producing species / For topical use only / II / 2728/99
ARNICAE RADIX / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations in the products not exceeding one part per ten only. / II / 2728/99
ARISTOLOCHIA spp. and preparations thereof / IV / 1568/98
ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations corresponding to the mother tincture and dilutions thereof only. / II / 2728/99
ASPARAGINE / All food producing species / II / 1931/99
ASPARTIC ACID / All food producing species / II / 1931/99
ATROPA BELLADONNA / All food producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations in the products not exceeding one part per hundred only. / II / 998/99
ATROPINE / All food producing species / II / 1943/99
AVILAMYCIN / Dichloroisoeverninic acid / Porcine
Rabbits
Poultry (2) / 50 – muscle
100 – fat (1)
300 – liver
200 - kidney / (1) For porcine and poultry species, this MRL relates to skin and fat in natural proportions.
(2) Not for use in animals from which eggs are produced for human consumption. / I / 1064/2007
AZAGLY-NAFARELIN / Salmonidae / Not for use in fish from which eggs are produced for human consumption. / II / 1530/02
AZAMETHIPHOS / Azamethiphos / Salmonidae / 100 - muscle and skin in natural proportions / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.6.97 / III / 1140/96
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.6.99 / III / 1836/97
II / 1931/99
AZAPERONE / Azaperol / All food producing species / 100 - kidney
50 - liver, muscle, fat / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.96
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.1998 / III
III / 675/92
1798/96
Sum of azaperone and azaperol / Porcine / 100 - kidney, liver, muscle, skin & fat / I / 1958/98
BACITRACIN / Bacitracin / Bovine / For intramammary use in lactating cows only and for all tissues except milk / II / 2686/98
Bovine / 150 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.2001 / III / 953/99
Sum of bacitracin A, bacitracin B and bacitracin C / Bovine / 100 - milk / I / 1478/01
Rabbits / 150 – muscle, fat, liver, kidney / I / 544/03
BALSAMUM PERUVIANUM / All food producing species / For topical use only / II / 1916/98
BAQUILOPRIM / Baquiloprim / Bovine / 300 - liver
150 - kidney
10 - fat
30 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.1998 / III / 1433/96
I / 1838/97
Porcine / 50 - kidney, liver
40 - fat and skin / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.1998 / III / 1433/96
I / 1838/97
BARIUM SELENATE / Bovine, ovine / II / 2757/99
BECLOMETHASONE DIPROPIONATE / Equidae / For inhalation use only / II / 2232/04
BELLIS PERENNIS / All food-producing species / For use in homeopathic VMPs prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations corresponding to the mother tincture and dilutions thereof only. / II / 2728/99
BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE / All food producing species / For use as an excipient at concentrations up to 0,05% only. / II / 1191/98
BENZOCAINE / All food producing species / For use as local anesthetic only. / II / 1569/98
Salmonidae / II / 868/02
BENZETIMIDE / No recommendation
BENZYL BENZOATE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
BENZYL P-HYDROXYBENZOATE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
BENZYL ALCOHOL / All food producing species / For use as excipient / II / 1442/95
BENZYL PENICILLIN / Parent drug / All food producing species / 50 - muscle, liver, kidney, fat
4 - milk / I / 675/92
BENZYLIDENEACETONE / No recommendation
BERBERIS VULGARIS / No recommendation
BETAINE / All food producing species / II / 121/98
BETAINE GLUCURONATE / All food producing species / II / 2393/99
BETAMETHASONE / Betamethasone / Bovine / 0,75 - muscle, kidney
2 - liver
0,3 - milk / I / 2593/99
Porcine / 0,75 - muscle, kidney
2 - liver / I / 2593/99
BIOTIN / All food producing species / II / 997/99
BISMUTH SUBCARBONATE / All food producing species / For oral use only / II / 1838/97
BISMUTH SUBGALLATE / All food producing species / For oral use only / II / 1838/97
BISMUTH SUBNITRATE / All food producing species / For oral use only / II / 1838/97
Bovine / For intramammary use only / II / 1286/00
BISMUTH SUBSALICYLATE / All food producing species / For oral use only / II / 1838/97
BITUMINOSULFONATES, AMMONIUM AND SODIUM SALTS / All mammalian food-producing species / Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / II / 2393/99
For topical use only / II / 712/2005
BOLDO FOLIUM / All food producing species / II / 2728/99
BORIC ACID AND BORATES / All food producing species / II / 2034/96
BROMHEXINE / Bovine / Not for use in animalsfrom which milk is produced for human consumption / II / 997/99
Porcine
Poultry / Not for use in animals from which eggs are produced for human consumption
BROMIDE, sodium salt / All food producing species / For topical use only / II / 1837/97
BROMIDE, potassium salt / All food producing species / II / 1931/99
BRONOPOL / Salmonidae / For use only on farmed fertilised eggs / II / 2686/98
Fin fish / II / 2162/01
BROTIZOLAM / Bovine / For therapeutic uses only / II / 1102/95
BRYONIA / No recommendation
BUSERELIN / All food producing species / II / 282/96
BUTAFOSFAN / Bovine / For intravenous use only and not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / II / 2728/99
For intravenous use only / II / 2391/00
BUTANILICAINE / No recommendation
BUTORPHANOL TARTRATE / Equidae / For intravenous administration only / II / 1076/98
BUTYL 4-HYDROXYBENZOATE / All food-producing species / II / 1433/96
BUTYLSCOPOLAMINIUM BROMIDE / All food-producing species / II / 1958/98
CAFFEINE / All food producing species / II / 282/96
CALCIUM ASPARTATE / All food-producing species / II / 1286/00
CALCIUM SALTS (15 listed) / All food producing species / II / 1102/95
CALCIUM BOROGLUCONATE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
CALCIUM CITRATE / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
CALCIUM GLUCOHEPTONATE / All food producing species / II / 2686/98
CALCIUM GLUCONO GLUCOHEPTONATE / All food producing species / II / 2686/98
CALCIUM GLUCONOLACTATE / All food producing species / II / 2686/98
CALCIUM GLUTAMATE / All food producing species / II / 2686/98
CALCIUM GLYCEROPHOSPHATE / All food producing species / II / 2908/00
CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE / All food producing species / II / 2162/01
CALENDULAE FLOS / All food producing species / For topical use only / II / 2593/99
CALENDULA OFFICINALIS / All food-producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations in the products not exceeding one part per ten only / II / 2728/99
CAMPHOR / All food producing species / External use only / II / 2796/95
CAMPHORA / All food-producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations in the products not exceeding one part per hundred only / II / 2728/99
CAPSICI FRUCTUS ACER / All food producing species / II / 2385/99
CARAZOLOL / Carazolol / All food producing species / 30 - liver, kidney
5 - muscle, fat / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.95 / III / 675/92
Porcine / 5 - muscle, fat + skin
25 - liver, kidney / I / 1442/95
Bovine / 5 - muscle, fat
15 - liver, kidney
1 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2000 / III / 953/99
I / 2757/99
CARBASALATE CALCIUM / Bovine / Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / II / 750/01
Porcine / II / 750/01
Chicken / Not for use in animals from which eggs are produced for human consumption / II / 750/01
All food producing species except fish / Not for use in animals from which milk or eggs are produced for human consumption / II / 1029/03
CARBETOCIN / All mammalian food-producing species / II / 1433/96
CARDAMON EXTRACT / All food producing species / II / 2796/95
CARDIOSPERMUM HALICACABUM / All food-producing species / For use in homeopathic veterinary medicinal products prepared according to homeopathic pharmacopoeias, at concentrations corresponding to the mother tincture and dilutions thereof only / II / 2728/99
CARLINAE RADIX / All food producing species / For topical use only / II / 2728/99
CARNITINE / All food producing species / II / 1931/99
CARPROFEN
CARPROFEN continued / Carprofen / Bovine / 1 000 - liver, kidney
500 - muscle, fat / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.1998 / III / 1311/96
500 - muscle
1000 - fat, liver, kidney / Not for use in animals from which milk is produced for human consumption / I / 1931/99
Equine / 1 000 - liver, kidney
50 - muscle
100 - fat / Provisional MRLs extended to expire on 1.1.2000 / III / 613/98
500 - muscle
1000 - fat, liver, kidney / I / 1931/99
Sum of carprofen and carprofen glucuronide conjugate / Bovine, Equidae / 500 - muscle
1000 - fat, liver, kidney / I / 869/05
Bovine (1) / (1) For bovine milk only / II / 869/05
Carvi aetheroleum / All food producing species / II / 2560/98
Caryophylli aetheroleum / All food producing species / II / 2560/98
CEFACETRILE / Bovine / For intramammary use only and for all tissues except milk / II / 804/99
Cefacetrile / Bovine / 125 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2001 - for intramammary use only / III / 804/99
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2002 – for intramammary use only / III / 807/01
for intramammary use only / I / 2162/01
CEFALONIUM / Bovine / For intramammary use and eye treatment only, and for all tissues except milk / II / 2728/99
Cefalonium / Bovine / 10 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.2001 / III / 2728/99
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2003 / III / 1322//01
20 - milk / I / 61/2003
CEFALEXIN / Cefalexin / Bovine / 200 - muscle, fat, liver
1000 - kidney
100 - milk / I / 2728/99
CEFAZOLIN / Cefazolin / Bovine / 50 - milk / I / 270/97
Bovine / For intramammary use only (except if the udder may be used as food for human consumption / II / 270/97
Ovine, caprine / 50 - milk / I / 121/98
Ovine, caprine / For intramammary use only (except if the udder may be used as food for human consumption) / II / 121/98
CEFOPERAZONE / Cefoperazone / Bovine / For intramammary use in lactating cows only and for all tissues except milk / II / 1943/99
Bovine / 50 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2001 / III / 1943/99
I / 807/01
CEFQUINOME / Cefquinome / Bovine / 200 - kidney
100 - liver
50 - muscle, fat / I / 895/93
20 - milk / I / 282/96
Porcine / 50 - muscle, skin + fat
100 - liver
200 - kidney / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.2000 / III / 954/99
I / 1931/99
Equidae / 50 - muscle, fat
100 - liver
200 - kidney / I / 2145/03
CEFTIOFUR / Sum of all residues retaining the betalactam structure expressed as
desfuroyleceftiofur / Bovine / 2000 - kidney, liver
200 - muscle
600 - fat
100 - milk / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.1997
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.1999 / III
III / 2703/94
1837/97
Porcine / 4000 - kidney
3000 - liver
500 - muscle
600 - fat / Provisional MRLs expire on 1.7.1997
Provisional MRLs expire on 1.1.1999 / III
III / 2703/94
1837/97
Porcine / 1000 - muscle
2000 - liver, fat
6000 – kidney / I / 804/99
Bovine / 1000 - muscle
2000 - liver, fat
6000 - kidney
100 - milk, not for intramammary use / I / 804/99
1000 - muscle
2000 - liver, fat (1)
6000 - kidney
100 - milk / I / 1752/02
All mammalian food-producing species / (1) For porcine species this MRL relates to “skin ans fat in natural proportions”. / I / 1231/06