Overview
The Turkish Food Codex Contaminants Regulation published in Resmi Gazete No. 32360 on 5 November 2023 sets maximum levels for contaminants in foods. Article 13 states that the regulation was prepared in alignment with Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915, and Article 14 repeals the earlier 29 December 2011 Turkish Food Codex Contaminants Regulation.
Exact Limit And Units
| Matrix | Analyte | Maximum level | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw milk, heat-treated milk, and milk used to manufacture milk-based products | Lead (Pb) | 0.020 mg/kg | Wet weight / product as placed on market |
The same 0.020 mg/kg row also appeared in the 2011 Turkish Food Codex Contaminants Regulation cited by Yildiz Kucuk and Gokcek 2024. HMI uses this page as the current Turkish regulatory anchor for source pages that compare raw cow milk lead values against the Turkish Food Codex.
How This Page Interacts With HMT&C
This page records an external public-law comparator. It does not set an HMT&C certification threshold. Source pages may cite it when preserving the regulatory comparator used by Turkish raw-milk literature or when comparing measured Pb in raw milk to a Turkish legal maximum level on the same analyte and wet-weight basis.
Sources
- Resmi Gazete. Turk Gida Kodeksi Bulasanlar Yonetmeligi. No. 32360, 5 November 2023. Source URL: https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2023/11/20231105-1.htm
- Resmi Gazete annex PDF. Ek-1, section 3.1.16, raw milk / heat-treated milk lead maximum level. Source URL: https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2023/11/20231105-1-1.pdf
- Resmi Gazete. Turk Gida Kodeksi Bulasanlar Yonetmeligi. No. 28157 (3rd duplicate), 29 December 2011. Source URL: https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2011/12/20111229M3-8.htm
- Determination of Some Minerals and Heavy metals in Raw Cow's Milk Collected from Different Regions of Muş Province - source-page encounter that required the Turkish raw-milk Pb comparator.
Verification Notes
- Created 2026-05-18 by Codex during dairy/eggs manual-fetch ingest.
- The 2023 regulation’s HTML text verifies the legal identity, issuing ministry, effective date, EU-alignment statement, and repeal of the 2011 Turkish Food Codex Contaminants Regulation. The annex PDF image verifies section 3.1.16: raw milk, heat-treated milk, and milk used to manufacture milk-based products, Pb maximum level 0.020 mg/kg.
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 | 1 source added; contamination-profile values revised; 6 sections added |