Food Regulations - Singapore Statutes Online

Heavy metals, arsenic, lead and copper

31.—(1) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any article of food containing arsenic, lead and copper in amounts in excess of those specified in the Tenth Schedule.

(2) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any seaweed containing inorganic arsenic in excess of 2 ppm.

Mercury

(3) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver —

(a)	any predatory fish containing mercury in excess of 1 ppm;
(b)	any other fish, or any fish product, containing mercury in excess of 0.5 ppm; or
(c)	any other food containing mercury in excess of 0.05 ppm. [S 816/2014 wef 15/12/2014]

Tin

(4) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any food containing tin in excess of 250 ppm.

Cadmium

(5) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any molluscs or dried mushrooms containing cadmium in excess of 1 ppm, or any seaweed containing cadmium in excess of 2 ppm, or any cocoa or cocoa products containing cadmium in excess of 0.5 ppm, or any other food containing cadmium in excess of 0.2 ppm.

[S 195/2011 wef 15/04/2011]

Antimony

(6) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any food containing antimony in excess of 1 ppm.

(7) In paragraph (3), “predatory fish” means any fish of a species listed in the Fifteenth Schedule.

[S 816/2014 wef 15/12/2014]

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