Limiting the Residues and Restriction the Use of Substances on Food

Description The measure (Chapter 10, para 22 (d)) provides to restrict the tolerance limits for residues of substances on food. No one shall import food containing agricultural chemical in excess of the maximum permissible level determined by the authority concerned. The objectives of the measure are to enable the public to consume food of genuine quality, free from danger and hygienic, to prevent the public from consuming food that may cause danger or are injurious to health, to supervise production of controlled food systemically, to control and regulate the production, import, export, storage, distribution and sale of food systematically.
Comments National Food Law 1997 is issued by the Ministry of Health and issued the Law Amending the National Food Law in 2013. This measure is subject to change as the conditions in the country changed.
Agency Department of Food and Drug Administration
Export/Import Import
Validity From 1997-03-03
Validity To Untill it is cancelled by the responsible agency.
Reference National Food Law 1997
Technical Code
UN Code A21 - Tolerance limits for residues of or contamination by certain (non-microbiological) substances
Measure Type A. SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES
Updated At 2018-06-21 10:39:00

Legal Documents
Name Category
National Food Law (1997) Law
Procedures
Name Description Category
Food Import Health Certificate Procedures for Obtaining Food Import Health Certificate (IHC) from Food and Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health Import
Food Import Recommendation Obtaining Food Import Recommendation from Food and Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health Import
Commodities

This measure applies to the following commodities.

HS Code Description
1207600000 - Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) seeds
1207700000 - Melon seeds
1207910000 - - Poppy seeds
1207994000 - - - Illipe seeds (Illipe nuts)
1207995000 - - - Fresh fruit bunch of oil palm
1207999000 - - - Other
1208100000 - Of soya beans
1208900000 - Other
1503001000 - Lard stearin or oleostearin
1504102000 - - Solid fractions
1504109000 - - Other
1504201000 - - Solid fractions
1504209000 - - Other
1504300000 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals
1506000000 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.