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Xenobiotics in Foodstuffs
In the production, import, testing, classification, packing, marking
and registration, handling and use of chemicals and chemical products,
as well as in their introduction onto the marketplace, physical persons
with a business licence and legal persons are obliged to take measures
for protection of human health against the negative impact of chemicals
and chemical products in the extent and within the conditions which shall
be determined by a resolution of the Government of the SR.
§ 14, part 1 of Act of the NR SR No. 272/1994 Col. on the Protection of
Human Health.
The Slovak Republic has enacted consumer protection into legislation (Act No. 634/1992 Col.). According to Notification of the Ministryof Health of the Slovak Republic No. 2/1993 Coll.xenobiotics represent substances which are not a natural component of food. They can have some negative impacts on human health according to their amount in food. Limit values which marks the highest possible value of xenobiotics in foodstuff that isn’t dangerous for health are determinate by Bulletin of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, part 9 to 13, from July 15, 1996.
Partial Monitoring System (ÈMS) Xenobiotics
in Foodstuffs consists of 3 partial systems:
Co-ordinated
Purpose-oriented Monitoring System (KCM),
Consumption
Monitoring System (MSK), and
Monitoring
of Game and Fish (MLZ).
Amount of samples, samples with excessive
limit values and number of analyses carried out within the partial monitoring
system ÈMS xenobiotics in the foodstuffs
| subsystem |
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with excessive limit values |
with excessive limit values (%) |
| KCM | 24 135 | 2 706 | 147 | 5.5 |
| MSK | 14 291 | 743 | 23 | 3.1 |
| MLZ | 3 509 | 355 | 110 | 30.9 |