Hong Kong issued Food Adulteration (Metallic Contamination)(Amendment) Regulations 2018
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Nov 29, 2018
HongKong government issued updated standard for metallic contamination in the Food Adulteration (Metallic Contamination) (Amendment) Regulations 2018. The regulations will come into force on 1 November 2019. The main purpose for the amendment is to update the regulations to align with Codex Principles and other relevant international standards. Some of the updates/changes are as follows
· Inclusion of additional metallic contaminants: barium, boron, copper, manganese, nickel, selenium and uranium. This will increase the total number of metallic contaminants from the existing 7 to 15.
· The number of maximum levels (MLs) for metallic contaminants in respect of different foods and food groups will be increased from the existing 19 to 144 . Of these 144 MLs, 84 make reference to Codex standards
· The Amendment Regulation also provides definitions for individual foods and food groups
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