Overview
Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/907 of 22 March 2024 directs EU Member States, in collaboration with food business operators, to monitor the presence of nickel in food during 2025, 2026 and 2027 (Rec. (EU) 2024/907). It is the companion monitoring instrument to the EU’s nickel maximum levels, and it cites the EFSA 2020 nickel risk assessment as its scientific basis. The binding maximum levels themselves were set four months later, by Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/1987 of 30 July 2024, which inserted nickel as Annex I point 3.6 of Regulation (EU) 2023/915 (applying from 1 July 2025, and 1 July 2026 for cereals). This recommendation’s recital 7 refers to those levels in the present perfect (“maximum levels have been established for nickel in various foods in Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915”) because the two instruments were drafted as one package; the monitoring it directs targets foods for which occurrence data were insufficient to set a maximum level (recital 8: in particular fish and other seafood used in baby food).
The recommendation states the EU’s own conclusion that current dietary nickel exposure exceeds the tolerable daily intake of 13 µg/kg b.w./day in toddlers and children (and some infants), and that the acute protective margin of exposure (≥ 30 against the 4.3 µg/kg b.w. LOAEL) is not met at mean or 95th-percentile exposure for the ~15 % of the population that is nickel-sensitised.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/907 |
| Type | Non-binding monitoring recommendation (Art. 292 TFEU) |
| Adopted | 22 March 2024 (OJ L, 26.3.2024) |
| Monitoring years | 2025, 2026, 2027 |
| Foods named | Food supplements; chocolate, chocolate/nut spreads, cocoa beans; cereal-based products (breakfast cereals, cereal flakes, oat milling products); ready-to-eat soups; coffee; tea; vegetables; seaweeds; oilseeds; soy-based products (tofu, soy drinks); pulses; nuts; fish and other seafood |
| Companion maximum levels | Set by amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1987 (30 July 2024), inserted as Annex I point 3.6 of Reg (EU) 2023/915; apply from 1 July 2025 (1 July 2026 for cereals). Recital 7 of this recommendation refers to them as already established |
| Scientific basis | EFSA 2020 (EFSA Journal 2020;18(11):6268) |
Sources
- Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/907 — primary Official Journal text, ingested 2026-06-03.
- Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/1987 — the binding instrument that set the nickel maximum levels; see Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/1987 — maximum levels of nickel in certain foodstuffs.
- EFSA Ni 2020 — the risk assessment the recommendation recites.
References
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- Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/907 of 22 March 2024 on the monitoring of nickel in foodRegulation
- Update of the Risk Assessment of Nickel in Food and Drinking WaterGovernment
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