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FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS (CONTAMINANTS, TOXINS AND RESIDUES) REGULATIONS, 2011
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL
1.1.1: These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, toxins and Residues)
Regulations, 2011.
1.1.2: These regulations shall come into force on or after 5th August, 2011
1.2: Definitions-
CHAPTER 2
CONTAMINANTS, TOXINS AND RESIDUES
2.1.1
1. Chemicals described in monographs of the Indian Pharmacopoeia when used in foods, shall not contain
metal contaminants beyond the limits specified in the appropriate monographs of the Indian Pharmacopoeia for the
time being in force.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 2.1.1 (1), no article of food specified in Column 2 of the table
below shall contain any metal specified in excess of the quantity specified in Column 3 of the said table:
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Table
2.2.1
1. No article of food specified in column (2) of the Table below shall contain any crop contaminant specified
in the corresponding entry in column (1) thereof in excess of quantities specified in the corresponding entry in
column (3) of the said table :
S. No Name of the Contaminants Article of Food Limit µg/kg
1. Aflatoxin All articles of food 30
2. Aflatoxin M1 Milk 0.5
3. Patulin Apple juice & Apple juice ingredients in other 50
beverages
4. Ochratoxin A Wheat, barley & rye 20
2.3: Residues
2.3.1: Restriction on the use of insecticides.
1) Subject to the Provisions of regulation 2.3.1 (2), no insecticides shall be used directly on articles of food
Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to the fumigants which are registered and
recommended for use as such on articles of food by the Registration Committee, constituted under section 5
of the Insecticides Act, 1968 (46 of 1968).
2) The amount of insecticide mentioned in Column 2 on the foods mentioned in column 3, shall not exceed the
tolerance limit prescribed in column 4 of the Table given below :
Sl.No. Name of Insecticides Food Tolerance limit
mg/kg.ppm)
12. Endosulfan (residues are measured and reported Fruits and Vegetables 2.0
as total of endosulfan A and B and Cottonseed 0.5
endosulfan-sulphate) Cottonseed oil (crude) 0.2
Bengal gram 0.20
Pigeon Pea 0.10
Fish 0.20
Chillies 1.0
Cardamom 1.0
13 Endosulfan A Carbonated Water 0.001
14 Endosulfan B Carbonated Water 0.001
15 Endosulfan-Sulphate Carbonated Water 0.001
16. Fenitrothion Foodgrains 0.02
Milled foodgrains 0.005
Milk and Milk Products 0.05 (on a fat
basis)
Fruits 0.5
Vegetables 0.3
Meat 0.03
17. Heptachlor (combined residues of heptachlor Foodgrains 0.01
and its epoxide to be determined and expressed Milled foodgrains 0.002
as Heptachlor) Milk and Milk Products 0.15(on a Fat
basis)
Vegetables 0.05
18. Hydrogen cyanide Foodgrains 37.5
Milled foodgrains 3.0
19. Hydrogen Phosphide Foodgrains Nil
Milled foodgrains Nil
20. Inorganic bromide (determined and expressed
as total bromide from all sources) Foodgrains 25.0
Milled Foodgrains 25.0
Fruits 30.0
Dried fruits 30.0
Spices 400.00
21. Hexachlorocycle hexane and its Isomers
(a) Alfa () Isomer: Rice grain unpolished 0.10
Rice grain polished 0.05
Milk (whole) 0.02
Fruits and vegetable 1.00
Fish 0.25
Carbonated Water 0.001
(b) Beta () Isomer : Rice grain Unpolished 0.10
Rice grain polished 0.05
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Vegetables 0.50
Mango 2.00
Banana (whole) 1.00
Other fruits 5.00
Cotton seed 0.10
Groundnut 0.10
Sugar beet 0.10
Dry fruits 0.10
Eggs 0.10 (shell free
basis)
Meat & Poultry 0.10 (carcass
fat basis)
Milk & Milk Products 0.10 (fat basis)
44. Captan Fruit & Vegetables 15.00
45. Carbofuran (sum of Food grains 0.10
carbofuran and Milled food grains 0.03
3-hydroxy carbofuran Fruit & Vegetables 0.10
expressed as carbofuran) Oil seeds 0.10
Sugarcane 0.10
Meat & Poultry 0.10 (carcass
fat basis)
Milk & Milk Products 0.05 (fat basis)
46. Copper Oxychloride Fruit 20.00
(determined as copper) Potato 1.00
Other vegetables 20.00
47. Cypermethrin (sum of isomers) (fat soluble residue) Wheat grains 0.05
Milled wheat grains 0.01
Brinjal 0.20
Cabbage 2.00
Bhindi 0.20
Oil seeds except groundnut 0.20
Meat and Poultry 0.20 (carcass
fat basis
Milk and Milk Products 0.01 (fat basis)
48. Decamethrin / Deltamethrin Cotton Seed 0.10
Food grains 0.50
Milled Foodgrains 0.20
Rice 0.05
49. Edifenphos Rice 0.02
Rice bran 1.00
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Maize 0.50
Citrus 1.00
(Sweet Orange)
Grapes 1.00
67. Ethephon Pine Apple 2.00
Coffee 0.10
Tomato 2.00
Mango 2.00
68. Fluchloralin Cotton Seed 0.05
Soya Beans 0.05
69. Malic Hydrazide Onion 15.00
Potato 50.00
70. Metalyxyl Bajra 0.05
Maize 0.05
Sorghum 0.05
71. Methomyl Cotton Seed 0.10
72. Methyl Chloro-phenoxy-acetic Acid(M.C.P.A.) Rice 0.05
Wheat 0.05
73. Oxadiazon Rice 0.03
74. Oxydemeton methyl Food-grains 0.02
75. Permethrin Cucumber 0.50
Cotton Seed 0.50
Soya Beans 0.05
Sunflower Seed 1.00
76. Quinolphos Rice 0.01
Pigeon pea 0.01
Cardamom 0.01
Tea 0.01
Fish 0.01
Chillies 0.2
77. Thiophenatemethyl Apple 5.00
Papaya 7.00
78 Triazophos Chillies 0.2
Rice 0.05
Cotton seed oil 0.1
Soyabean oil 0.05
79 Profenofos Cotton seed oil 0.05
80 Fenpropathrin Cotton seed oil 0.05
81 Fenarimol Apple 5.0
82 Hexaconazole Apple 0.1
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(a) the expression “insecticide” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Insecticide Act, 1968 (46 of
1968);
1) The amount of antibiotic mentioned in column (2), on the sea foods including shrimps, prawns or any other
variety of fish and fishery products, shall not exceed the tolerance limit prescribed in column (3) of the table given
below:—
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TABLE
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL
1.1.1: These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, toxins and Residues)
Regulations, 2011.
1.1.2: These regulations shall come into force on or after 5 th August, 2011.
1.2: Definitions-
CHAPTER 2
CONTAMINANTS, TOXINS AND RESIDUES
2.1.1
1. Chemicals described in monographs of the Indian Pharmacopoeia when used in foods, shall not contain
metal contaminants beyond the limits specified in the appropriate monographs of the Indian Pharmacopoeia for
the time being in force.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 2.1.1 (1), no article of food specified in Column 2 of the
table below shall contain any metal specified in excess of the quantity specified in Column 3 of the said table:
Table
Edible molasses, caramel liquid and solid glucose and starch conversion products 5.0
with a sulphated ash content exceeding 1.0 per cent
Canned asparagus 1
Canned carrots 1
Canned mushrooms 1
Canned palmito 1
Canned sweetcorn 1
Canned tomatoes 1
Fish 0.3
Margarine 0.1
Minarine 0.1
Named animal fats (lard, rendered pork fat, premier jus and edible tallow) 0.1
Vegetable oils, crude (oils of arachis, babasu, coconut, cotton seed, grape seed, 0.1
maize, mustard seed, palm kernel, palm, rape seed, safflower seed, sesame seed,
soya bean, and sunflower seed, and palm olein, stearin and superolein and other
oils but excluding cocoa butter)
Vegetable oils, edible (oils of arachis, babasu, coconut, cotton seed, grape seed, 0.1
maize, mustard seed, palm kernel, palm, rape seed, safflower seed, sesame seed,
soya bean, and sunflower seed, and palm olein, stearin and superolein and other
oils but excluding cocoa butter)
Milks (A concentration factor applies to partially or wholly dehydrated milks.) 0.02
Wine 0.2
Crustaceans 0.5
Cephalopods 1.0
Bivalve Molluscs 1.5]
2. Copper (i) Beverages:
Soft drinks excluding concentrates and Carbonated water 7.0
Carbonated water 1.5
Toddy 5.0
Concentrates for soft drinks 20.0
(ii) Other Foods
Chicory-dried or roasted, coffee beans, flavourings/pectin liquid 30.0
Colouring matter 30.0 on dry
colouring matter
Edible gelatin 30.0
Tomato ketchup 50.0 on the dried
total solids
Yeast and yeast products 60.0 on the dry
matter
Cocoa powder 70.0 on the fat
free substance
Tomato puree, paste, powder, juice and cocktails 100.0 on the dried
tomato solid
Tea 150.0
Pectin-solid 300.0
Hard boiled sugar confectionery 5.0
Iron Fortified Common Salt 2.0
Turmeric whole and powder 5.0
Juice of orange, grape, apple, tomato, pineapple and lemon 5.0
Pulp and pulp products of any fruit 5.0
Infant milk substitute and Infant foods 15.0 (But not less
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Pulses 15
Nuts
Ready to eat 10
Dried figs 10
Oilseeds or oil
Ready to eat 10
Spices 30
5[3. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) compounds in Fish and Fishery
Products:
2.3: Residues
2.3.1: Restriction on the use of insecticides.
1) Subject to the Provisions of regulation 2.3.1 (2), no insecticides shall be used directly on articles of food
Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to the fumigants which are registered and
recommended for use as such on articles of food by the Registration Committee, constituted under section
5 of the Insecticides Act, 1968 (46 of 1968).
2) The amount of insecticide mentioned in Column 2 on the foods mentioned in column 3, shall not exceed
the tolerance limit prescribed in column 4 of the Table given below :
Table
Maize 0.50
(a) the expression “insecticide” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Insecticide Act, 1968 (46 of
1968);
1) The amount of antibiotic mentioned in column (2), on the sea foods including shrimps, prawns or any
other variety of fish and fishery products, shall not exceed the tolerance limit prescribed in column (3) of the
table given below:—
Table
2) The use of any of the following antibiotics and other Pharmacologically Active Substances shall be
prohibited in any unit processing sea foods including shrimps, prawns or any other variety of fish and fishery
products —
(i) All Nitrofurans including
(a) Furaltadone
(b) Furazolidone
(c) Furylfuramide
(d) Nifuratel
(e) Nifuroxime
(f) Nifurprazine
(g) Nitrofurnatoin
(h) Nitrofurazone
(ii) Chloramphenicol
(iii) Neomycin
(iv) Nalidixic acid
(v) Sulphamethoxazole
(vi) Aristolochia spp and preparations thereof
(vii) Chloroform
(viii) Chloropromazine
(ix) Cholchicine
(x) Dapsone
(xi) Dimetridazole
(xii) Metronidazole
1 [ (3) The limit of antibiotics mentioned in column(2), in Honey on the basis of Limit of Quantification,
shall not exceed the tolerance limit prescribed in column(3) when determined by the LC-MS/MS method in the table
given below:—
Table
5. Tetracycline 5.0*
6. Ampicillin 5.0*
7. Enrofloxacin 5.0*
8. Ciprofloxacin 5.0*
9. Erythromycin 5.0*
2. Amnesic Shellfish Poison (ASP) Bivalve Molluscs 20 μg/g (Domoic acid equivalent)
3. Diarrhetic shellfish poison (DSP) Bivalve Molluscs 160 μg of Okadaic acid equivalent/Kg
2.5.1: The contaminant mentioned in column 2 on the foods mentioned in column 3, shall not exceed the Maximum
Level prescribed in column 4 of the Table given below:
0.15
Liquid infant formula
2.5]
Other foods
9 [2.5.2 Histamine in Fish and Fishery Products contaminants, toxins and Residues
Where,
Unsatisfactory, if the mean value observed exceeds m or more than c/n values are between m and M or one or more of
the values observed are >M.