Cadmium

Seafood product

Maximum permitted cadmium level (mg/kg wet weight)

Muscle meat of:

• bonito (Sarda sarda)
• common two-banded sea bream (Diplodus vulgaris)
• eel (Anguilla anguilla)
• grey mullet (Mugil labrosus labrosus)
• horse mackerel or scad (Trachurus trachurus)
• louvar or luvar (Luvarus imperialis)
• mackerel (Scomber species)
• sardine (Sardina pilchardus)
• sardinops (Sardinops species)
• tuna (Thunnus species, Euthynnus species, Katsuwonus pelamis)
• wedge sole (Dicologlossa cuneata)

 0.10

Muscle meat of bullet tuna (Auxis species)

0.20

Muscle meat of:

• anchovy (Engraulis species)
• swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

0.30

Muscle meat of fish species not mentioned above

0.05

Crustaceans: muscle meat from appendages and abdomen. In case of crabs and crab-like crustaceans (Brachyura and Anomura) muscle meat from appendages.

0.50

Bivalve molluscs

1.0

Cephalopods (without viscera)

1.0

Food supplements consisting exclusively or mainly of dried seaweed, products derived from seaweed, or of dried bivalve molluscs

3.0