Singapore legislation
Regulation 31
Regulation 31
Heavy metals, arsenic and lead
Subregulation 1
No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any article of food containing arsenic and lead in amounts in excess of those specified in the Tenth Schedule.
Subregulation 2
No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any seaweed containing inorganic arsenic in excess of 2 ppm.
Subregulation 2A
A person must not import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any polished rice containing inorganic arsenic in excess of 0.2 ppm.
Subregulation 2B
A person must not import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any husked rice containing inorganic arsenic in excess of 0.35 ppm.
Subregulation 3
No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver —
any predatory fish containing mercury in excess of 1 ppm;
any other fish, or any fish product, containing mercury in excess of 0.5 ppm;
(ba)any salt containing mercury in excess of 0.1 ppm; or
any other food containing mercury in excess of 0.05 ppm.
Subregulation 4
No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any food containing tin in excess of 250 ppm.
Subregulation 5
No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any molluscs or dried mushrooms containing cadmium in excess of 1 ppm, or any seaweed containing cadmium in excess of 2 ppm, or any cocoa, cocoa products or salt containing cadmium in excess of 0.5 ppm, or any other food containing cadmium in excess of 0.2 ppm.
Subregulation 6
No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any food containing antimony in excess of 1 ppm.
Subregulation 7
In paragraph (3), “predatory fish” means any fish of a species listed in the Fifteenth Schedule.