New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 170

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✨ Food Safety Standards



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Table to clause 2 (Continued)

Column 1 Column 2
Mercury mean level of 0.5*
Crustacea mean level of 0.5*
Fish (as specified in Schedule 4 to Standard 1.4.2) and fish products, excluding gemfish, billfish (including marlin), southern bluefin tuna, barramundi, ling, orange roughy, rays and all species of shark mean level of 1*
Gemfish, billfish (including marlin), southern bluefin tuna, barramundi, ling, orange roughy, rays and all species of shark 1
Fish for which insufficient samples are available to analyse in accordance with clause (6) mean level of 0.5*
Molluscs
Tin 250
All canned foods
  • A reference to a mean level in the Table to clause 2 in this Standard is to the mean level of mercury in the prescribed number of sample units as described in clause 6 of this Standard.

3 Maximum levels of non metal contaminants in food

(1) In this clause -

**ergot** means the sclerotium or dormant winter form of the fungus, *Claviceps purpuria*.

**food** means the food or class of foods listed in unbolded type in column 1 of the Table to this clause.

**MU** means the unit of measure described in ‘Recommended procedures for examination of seawater and shellfish’, Irwin N. (ed.) 4th Ed. 1970, American Public Health Association Inc.

**non-metal contaminant** means a substance listed in bold type in column 1 of the Table to this clause.

(2) The maximum levels for non metal contaminants in food are listed in column 2 of the Table to this clause, expressed in mg/kg, unless otherwise specified.

(3) Where a mixed food contains food or class of foods listed in unbolded type in column 1 of the Table to this clause, the proportion of the non metal contaminant permitted to be present in the mixed food (ML1) is calculated in accordance with the formula prescribed in subclause 1(6).



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🏥 Food Contaminants and Natural Toxicants Standards (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Food safety, Contaminants, Toxicants, Maximum levels, Mercury, Tin, Non-metal contaminants, Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Public health, Risk management