Table in Rule Rule 57:
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Name of poisonous metal |
Article of food |
Parts per million by weight |
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Lead |
(i) Beverages |
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Concentrated soft drinks (but not including concentrates used in the manufacture of soft drinks) |
0.5 |
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Fruit and vegetable juice (including tomato juice, but not including lime juice and lemon juice) |
1.0 |
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Concentrates used in the manufacture of soft drinks, lime juice and lemon juice |
2.0 |
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(i-a) Baking powder |
10 |
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(i-b) Edible oils 5and fats |
0.5 |
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(i-c) Infant Milk substitute and Infant foods |
0.2 |
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(i-d) Turmeric whole and powder |
10.0 |
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(ii) Other foods |
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Anhydrous dextrose and dextrose monohydrate, refined white sugar (sulphated ash content not exceeding 0. 03 per cent) |
0.5 |
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Ice-cream, iced lollies and similar frozen confections |
1.0 |
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Canned fish, canned meats,edible gelatin, meat extracts and hydrolysed protein, dried or dehydrated vegetables ( other than onions) |
1.0 |
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All types of sugar, sugar syrup, invert sugar, and direct consumption coloured sugars with sulphated ash content exceeding 1.0 per cent |
5.0 |
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Raw sugars except those sold for direct consumption or used for manufacturing purposes other than the manufacture of refined sugar |
5.0 |
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Edible molasses, caramel, liquid and solid glucose and starch conversion products with a sulphated ash content exceeding1.0 per cent |
5.0 |
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Cocoa powder |
5.0 (on the dry fat free substance) |
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Yeast and yeast products |
5.0 (on the dry matter) |
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Tea, dehydrated onions, dried herbs and spices, flavourings, alginic acid, alignates, agar, carrageen and similar products derived from seaweed |
10.0 on the dry matter |
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Liquid pectin, chemicals not otherwise specified, used as ingredients or in the preparation or processing of food |
10.0 |
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Food colouring other than caramel |
10.0 (on the dry colouring matter) |
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Solid pectin |
50.0 |
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Hard boiled sugar confectionery |
2.0 |
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lron Fortified Common Salt |
2.0 |
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(iii) Foods not specified |
2.5 |
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2. Copper |
(i) Beverage |
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Soft drinks excluding concentrates and Carbonated water |
7.0 |
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Carbonated water |
1.5 |
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Toddy |
5.0 |
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Concentrates for soft drinks |
20.0 |
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(ii) Other foods |
|
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Chicory dried or roasted, coffee beans, flavourings, pectin-liquid |
30.0 |
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Colouring |
30.0 (on the dry colouring matter) |
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Edible gelatin |
30.0 |
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Tomato ketchup |
50.0 (on the dried total solids) |
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Yeast and yeast products |
60.0 (on the dry matter) |
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Cocoa powder |
70.0 (on the fat free substance) |
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Tomato puree, paste, powder juice and cocktails |
100.0 (on the dried tomato solid) |
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Tea |
150.0 |
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Pectin-solid |
300.0 |
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Hard boiled sugar confectionery |
5.0 |
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Iron Fortified Common Salt |
2.0 |
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(ii-a) Turmeric whole and powder |
5.0 |
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(ii-b) Juice of orange, grape, apple,tomato, pineapple and lemon |
5.0 |
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Pulp and pulp products of any fruit |
5.0 |
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(ii-c) Infant milk substitute and Infant foods |
15.00 (But not less than 2.8) |
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(iii) Foods not specified |
30.0 |
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3. Arsenic |
(i) Milk |
0.1 |
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(ii) Beverages : |
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Soft drink intended for consumption after dilution except carbonated water |
0.5 |
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Carbonated water |
0.25 |
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(ii-a) Infant Milk substitute and Infant food |
0.05 |
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(ii-b) Turmeric whole and powder |
0.1 |
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(ii-c) Juice of orange, grape, apple, tomato, pineapple and lemon |
0.2 |
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Pulp and pulp products of any fruit |
0.2 |
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(iii) Preservatives, anti-oxidants, emulsifying and stabilising agents and synthetic food colours on dry matter |
3.0 |
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(iv) Other foods : |
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Ice-cream, iced lollies and similar frozen confections |
0.5 |
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Dehydrated onion, Edible gelatin liquid pectin |
2.0 |
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Chicory-dried or roasted |
4.0 |
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Dried herbs, fining and clearing agents, solid pectin all grades, spices |
5.0 |
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Food colouring other than synthetic colouring on dry colouring matter |
5.0 |
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Hard boiled sugar confectionery |
1.0 |
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Iron Fortified common salt |
1.0 |
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(v) Foods not specified |
1.1 |
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4. Tin |
(i) Processed and canned products |
250.0 |
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(i-aa) Jam, Jellies and marmalade |
250 |
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Juice of orange, apple, tomato, pineapple and lemon |
250 |
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Pulp and products of any fruit |
250 |
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(i-a) Hard boiled sugar confectionery |
5.0 |
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(i-b) Infant Milk substitute and infant foods |
5.0 |
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(iib) Turmeric whole and powder |
Nil |
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(ii) Foods not specified |
250.0 |
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5. Zinc |
(i) Ready-to-drink beverages |
5.0 |
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Juice of orange, grape, tomato, pineapple and lemon |
5.0 |
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Pulp and pulp products of any fruit |
5.0 |
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(i-a) Infant milk substitute and Infant foods |
50.0 (but not less than 25.0) |
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(ii) Edible gelatin |
100.0 |
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(iia) Turmeric whole and powder |
25.0 |
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(iii) Fruit products covered under the Fruit Products Order, 1955 |
50.0 |
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(iii-a) Hard boiled sugar confectionery |
5.0 |
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(iv) Foods not specified |
50.0 |
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6. Cadmium |
(i) Infant Milk substitutes and infant foods |
0.1 |
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(ii) Turmeric whole and Powder |
0.1 |
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(iii) other foods |
1.5 |
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7. Mercury |
Fish |
0.5 |
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Other food |
1.0 |
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8. Methyl Mercury |
All foods |
0.25 (Calculated as the element) |
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9. Chromium |
Refined Sugar |
20ppb, |
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10. Nickel |
All hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated, interesterified vegetable oils and fats such as vanaspati, table margarine, bankery and industrial margarine, bankery shortening, fat spread and partially hydrogenated soybean oil. |
1.5 |