This source is Paraguay Decree No. 1335, promulgated in Asuncion on 20 February 2019. The decree incorporates MERCOSUR/GMC Resolution No. 12/11, “Reglamento Tecnico MERCOSUR sobre Limites Maximos de Contaminantes Inorganicos en Alimentos,” into Paraguay’s national legal order.
The annex is the routeable HMI heavy-metal schedule. It sets maximum levels for arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, and tin across food categories including fats and oils, sugars, honey, cocoa and chocolate, beverages, wine, cereals, wheat, rice, vegetables, mushrooms, pulses, fruits, tea, coffee, edible ice and ice creams, milk and dairy products, salt, meats, offal, eggs, fish, molluscs, crustaceans, and tinplate-packaged foods. The regulation states that the infant and young-child food category is outside this instrument and is governed by specific technical regulations.
Values are recorded in data/evidence/regulatory_limits.csv in ug/kg, converting the source’s mg/kg values by multiplying by 1000. Wine rows are source-reported in mg/L; HMI preserves that source unit in the basis and notes while storing the numeric value in the shared value field. The source’s arsenic rows do not specify inorganic arsenic, so they are recorded as total arsenic (tAs). The mercury rows do not specify methylmercury, so they are recorded as total mercury (tHg).
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