Mutual recognition of products from other EEA Countries

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority does not have an exhaustive overview of what we consider sufficient to protect health and the environment, but we assess that:

• Heavy metal content in organic fertilising products should be below the limit value in the EU Fertiliser Regulation (EC) 2019/1009.
• The Norwegian regulations have use restrictions determined by the heavy metal content in the products. We therefore recommend that the products be labelled with heavy metal content or heavy metal class as specified in the Fertiliser regulation (§21). If the user does not receive information about the heavy metal content, they must assume that the product is in the heavy metal class with the highest heavy metal content.
• Cadmium content in phosphorus-containing mineral fertilising products should be below 100 mg/kg phosphorus.
• Organic fertilising products should not be able to transmit diseases to humans, animals, or plants. The products should not contain Salmonella bacteria, the content of Escherichia coli (E. coli) should be less than 1000 colony-forming units per gram of wet weight, and there should be less than two viable seeds or other plant parts that can give rise to new plants per litre of finished product. For animal by-products other hygiene requirement, than plant health,  are given in that regulation.
• We recommend labelling nutrient content in elemental form (not oxide form), as Norwegian users are used to receiving information in this form. Labelling should be in Norwegian. Swedish and Danish can be used if words that are not the same in these languages are translated into Norwegian.
• For professional users, the phosphorus content should be labelled with availability as specified in the national regulation. This is to ensure correct dosing.
• The labelling must provide contact information, either to a Norwegian business responsible for marketing in Norway or to a business responsible in the EEA country whose regulations the product follows.