and Young Children (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

L.N. 212 of 2004

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 448)

Processed Cereal-based Foods and Other Foods for Infants

and Young Children (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 10 of the Food

Safety Act, the Minister of Health, the Elderly and Community Care

has made the following regulations>

The title of these regulations is the Processed Cereal-based Citation.

Foods and Other Foods for Infants and Young Children (Amendment)

Regulations, 2004, and they shall be read and construed as one with

the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Other Foods for Infants and

Young Children Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as “the L.N. 207 of 2002.

principal regulations”.

These regulations implement the provisions of Commission

Directive 2003#13#EC of the European Community.

(1) For regulation 4.6 of the principal regulations there Amends

4 of the principal

shall be substituted the following>

regulations.

“Processed cereal-based foods and baby foods shall not

contain residues of individual pesticides at levels exceeding 0.01

mg#kg, except for those substances for which specific levels

have been set in the Seventh Schedule, in which case such

specific levels shall apply. The above levels apply to processed

cereal-based foods and baby foods as proposed ready for

consumption or as reconstitued according to the instructions of

the manufacturer.”.

(2) The following new sub-regulation 4.9 shall be

inserted immediately after sub-regulation 4.8 of the principal

regulations>

“4.9 Those pesticides listed in the Eighth Schedule shall

not be used in agricultural products intended for the production

of processed cereal-based foods and baby foods. However, for

the purpose of control>

(i) pesticides listed in Table 1 of the Eighth Schedule

are considered not to have been used if their residues do

not exceed a level of 0.003 mg#kg<

(ii) pesticides listed in Table 2 of the Eighth

Schedule are considered not to have been used if their

residues do not exceed a level of 0.003 mg#kg.

The levels referred to in (i) and (ii) shall apply to the products

as proposed ready for consumption or as reconstituted according to

the instructions of the manufacturers.”.

The following shall be added as the Seventh Schedule

immediately after the Sixth Schedule of the principal regulations>

B

“SEVENTH SCHEDULE

Specific maximum residue levels of pesticides or metabolites of pesticides in

processed cereal-based foods and baby foods

Chemical name of the substance

Maximum residue level

(mg#kg)

Cadusafos

0.006

Demeton-S-methyl#demeton-S-methyl

0.006

sulfone#oxydemeton-methyl (individually or

combined, expressed as demeton-S-methyl)

Ethoprophos

0.008

Fipronil (sum of fipronil and fipronyl-desulfinyl,

0.004

expressed as fipronil)

Propineb#propylenethiourea (sum of propineb and

0.006”.

propylenethiourea)

The following shall be added as the Eighth Schedule Adds Eighth

Schedule to the

immediately after the Seventh Schedule of the principal regulations> principal

regulations.

“EIGHTH SCHEDULE

Pesticides which shall not be used in agricultural production intended for

the production of processed cereal-based foods and baby foods

Table 1

Chemical name of the substance (residue definition)

Disulfoton (sum of disulfoton, disulfoton sulfoxide and disulfoton sulfone

expressed as disulfoton)

Fensulfothion (sum of fensulfothion, its oxygen analogue and their sulfones,

expressed as fensulfothion)

Fentin, expressed as triphenyltin cation

Haloxyfop (sum of haloxyfop, its salts and esters including conjugates,

expressed as haloxyfop)

Heptachlor and trans-heptachlor epoxide, expressed as heptachlor

Hexachlorobenzene

Nitrofen

Omethoate

Terbufos (sum of terbufos, its sulfoxide and sulfone, expressed as terbufos)

Table 2

Chemical name of the substance

Aldrin and dieldrin, expressed as dieldrin

Endrin”.

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