✨ Food Standards Variation
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 50 — 8 MAY 2015
Contaminant | Food | Maximum level
--- | --- | ---
Acrylonitrile | All food | 0.02
Aflatoxin | Peanuts | 0.015
| Tree nuts (as specified in Schedule 22) | 0.015
Amnesic shellfish poisons
(Domoic acid equivalent) | Bivalve molluscs | 20
3-chloro-1,2-propanediol | Soy sauce and oyster sauce | 0.2
| | calculated on a 40%
dry matter content
Diarrhetic shellfish poisons
(Okadaic acid equivalent) | Bivalve molluscs | 0.2
1,3-dichloro-2-propanol | Soy sauce and oyster sauce | 0.005
| | calculated on a 40%
dry matter content
Ergot | Cereal grains | 500
Methanol | Red wine, white wine and fortified wine | 3 g methanol / L of ethanol
| Whisky, Rum, Gin and Vodka | 0.4 g methanol / L of ethanol
| Other spirits, fruit wine, vegetable wine and mead | 8 g methanol / L of ethanol
Neurotoxic shellfish poisons | Bivalve molluscs | 200 MU/kg
Paralytic shellfish poisons
(Saxitoxin equivalent) | Bivalve molluscs | 0.8
Phomopsins | Lupin seeds and the products of lupin seeds | 0.005
Polychlorinated biphenyls, total | Mammalian fat | 0.2
| Poultry fat | 0.2
| Milk and milk products | 0.2
| Eggs | 0.2
| Fish | 0.5
Vinyl chloride | All food except packaged water | 0.01
S19—6 Maximum levels of natural toxicants
(1) For each natural toxicant listed below, the maximum level (in mg/kg) for a particular food is listed in relation to that food:
Maximum levels of natural toxicants
| Natural toxicant | Food | Maximum level |
|---|---|---|
| Agaric acid | Food containing mushrooms | 100 |
| Alcoholic beverages | 100 | |
| Aloin | Alcoholic beverages | 50 |
| Berberine | Alcoholic beverages | 10 |
| Coumarin | Alcoholic beverages | 10 |
| Hypericine | Alcoholic beverages | 2 |
| Lupin alkaloids | Lupin flour, lupin kernel flour, lupin kernel meal and lupin hulls | 200 |
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