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Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules

Part XIA - Crop Contaminants and Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances

Section 57-A: Crop contaminants

(1) Crop contaminant means any substance not intentionally added to food, but which gets added to articles of food in the process of their production (including operations carried out in crop husbandry, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine), manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing. packaging, transport or holding of articles of such foods as a result of environmental contamination.
(2) No article of food specified in column (2) of the Table below shall contain 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:-

Table:
Name of the contaminants - Article of food mg/kg.
Aflatoxin - All articles of food - 0.03