Overview
This page records the heavy-metal limits present in the local English Food Code excerpt ingested as Article 2. Common Standards and Specifications for General Foods. Because the PDF is a 2012 excerpt, current-law use should verify against the current MFDS Food Code before legal application.
Scope
The excerpt covers common standards and specifications for general foods. The HMI-relevant heavy-metal subsection covers marine fish, shellfish, and selected agricultural products.
Exact limit and units
See Article 2. Common Standards and Specifications for General Foods for the transcribed mg/kg limits. Key rows include tHg 0.5 mg/kg for marine fish and shellfish, MeHg 1.0 mg/kg for deep-sea fishes, tunas, and spearfishes, Pb 2.0 mg/kg and Cd 2.0 mg/kg for shellfish, and Pb/Cd limits from 0.05 to 0.3 mg/kg for selected crops.
How tested
The local PDF excerpt does not provide heavy-metal analytical method performance details for the limit rows.
Enforcement posture
The source is a Food Code standard. This page treats it as regulatory comparator evidence, not as a case-specific compliance determination.
History of changes
Current-law status has not been verified from a live MFDS source in this ingest. The page is marked source-snapshot to avoid overstating the 2012 excerpt.
How it compares
Comparison to EU, Codex, FDA, and FSANZ limits is synthesis work and is not performed during this source ingest.
References
Works cited in this page’s text, in first-appearance order. This is not the full corpus for this page; it is only what the prose above draws on. The complete set of sources is listed under Sources below. Each title links to its source record, which carries the ingest receipt, the extracted values, and the file hash of the document it was built from.
Sources
Update history
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