PAH in smoked spices: what EU Regulation 2023/915 actually covers
EU PAH limits for dried spices do not extend to cardamom. What Regulation 2023/915 covers, what it does not, and what to ask a supplier.
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Compliance
What the regulation actually says.
Import compliance for spice buyers, written against the primary sources and linked to them. You should not have to take a supplier's word for what a regulation requires.
Most supplier-published compliance content paraphrases a regulation without linking it, which leaves a buyer no way to check the paraphrase. These pages do the opposite: every regulatory claim carries the instrument it comes from, and each guide ends with the sources listed and linked.
Where a rule is genuinely ambiguous or changes often, the guide says so rather than flattening it into a confident sentence.
Aflatoxin limits by market: EU, GCC, USA and UK compared
Aflatoxin is what rejects spice consignments. How the EU, GCC, USA and UK each set limits, and what that means for a cardamom lot.
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Importing black cardamom into the USA: FSVP and prior notice
FDA prior notice, FSVP supplier verification, and the document set a US importer of black cardamom is legally required to hold.
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Importing black cardamom into the UK after Brexit
What changed for UK spice importers after Brexit: retained contaminant law, import notification, duty treatment for Nepali origin.
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More to come
Guides on Nepal phytosanitary certificates, FNCCI certificates of origin, MOCCAE and SFDA requirements, and air versus sea freight from a landlocked origin are being written. They are not published as outlines because a compliance page with gaps in it is worse than no page — if one of those is the answer you need now, ask us directly.