Overview
Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1323 amended Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels of cadmium in certain foodstuffs. The regulation entered into force on 31 August 2021 and was implicitly repealed by Regulation (EU) 2023/915 from 25 May 2023.
Selected Cereal Limits Used By Source Pages
| Foodstuff | Metal | Maximum level | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cereals other than listed special cereal rows | Cd | 0.10 mg/kg | Wet weight |
| Rye and barley | Cd | 0.050 mg/kg | Wet weight |
| Rice, quinoa, wheat bran, and wheat gluten | Cd | 0.15 mg/kg | Wet weight |
| Triticum durum (durum wheat) | Cd | 0.18 mg/kg | Wet weight |
| Wheat germ | Cd | 0.20 mg/kg | Wet weight |
How This Page Interacts With HMT&C
This page records the superseded EU cadmium comparator used by source pages that cite Regulation (EU) 2021/1323 directly. It is not an HMT&C threshold. Current EU maximum levels should be checked against EU Regulation 2023/915 maximum levels for contaminants in food before live legal use.
Sources
- EUR-Lex. Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1323 of 10 August 2021 amending Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels of cadmium in certain foodstuffs. Source URL: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/1323/oj/eng
Verification Notes
- Created 2026-05-18 during the Gacal et al. 2023 bread ingest.
- EUR-Lex document metadata reports effect from 31 August 2021 and end of validity on 24 May 2023, implicitly repealed by Regulation (EU) 2023/915.
Update history
The five most recent substantive edits to this page, classified major (evidence or structure moved), correction (a published value or statement was wrong and has been fixed), or minor (narrative rewritten without changing the underlying evidence). Each description is derived from what the edit did to this page; the linked commit is the authoritative record, routine regeneration passes are excluded, and the full version history lives in git. When DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.
| Commit | Date | Change | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| e317189 | 2026-08-11 | correction | Contamination-profile values revised; 6 sections added; narrative text revised |