Food Regulations - Singapore Statutes Online

Pesticide residues

30.—(1) In these Regulations, “pesticide” means a substance or compound used or capable of being used or intended for use for agricultural, pastoral, horticultural, domestic or industrial purposes for controlling, destroying or preventing the growth and development of any fungus, bacterium, virus, insect, mite, mollusc, nematode, plant or animal or for any other related purpose.

(2) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any article of food containing any pesticide residue other than those specified in column 1, in relation to those articles specified in column 3 and in the proportion specified in column 2 of the Ninth Schedule.

(3) Unless otherwise prescribed in these Regulations, the pesticide residue contained in any food must not exceed the maximum limit or extraneous maximum residue limit stated for the residue adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

[S 49/2016 wef 02/02/2016]

[S 146/2018 wef 28/03/2018]

(4) A manufactured or mixed food containing one or more of the foods in which pesticide residues are permitted shall not contain such residues in greater amount than is permitted for the quantity of the food or foods containing residues used in the preparation of the manufactured or mixed food.

(5) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any article of food containing the residue of 2 or more of the pesticides specified in the Ninth Schedule unless the sum of the fractions obtained by dividing the quantity of the pesticide present by the maximum quantity of each pesticide permitted to be present if used alone does not exceed unity.

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