Food Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (L.N. No. 89 of 2010)

282 [LEGAL NOTICE No. 89] FOOD AND SAFETYACT 2003 Food Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2010 IN exercise of the powers conferred npon the Board by section 70 of the Food and Safety Act 2003, the Board hereby makes these Regulations-> Citation and commencement 1.- (I) These Regulationsmay be cited astheFoodSafety (Amendment) Regulations 2010. (2) These Regulations are deemed to have come into effect on the date of commencement of the Food Safety Regulations 2009 (5th June, 2009). Eleventh Schedule amended 2. The Eleventh Schedule of the Food Safety Regulations 2009 is amended by inserting (a) in A, a new regulation (25) after regulation (24) "Maximum Levels ofDioxins and PCBs permitted in fisheries product Sum of Sum ofdioxins dioxins and Parameters Product (WHO-PCDD/F- dioxin-like TEQ) "(pg/g wet PCBs (WHO weight) PCDDlF PCB-TEQ) " Dioxin and Muscle meat of fish and fishery 4pg/g wet weight 8pg/g wet PCBs product thereof excluding eel. weight The maximum level applies to crustaceans, excluding the brown meat of crab and exclnding head and thorax meat of lobster and similar large crustaceans (Nephropidae and Palinuridae)" 283 (b) in A, a new regulation (26) after new regulation (25) "Maximum levels of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) permitted ill Fisheries products PAH Muscle meat of smoked fish and smoked fishery product 5ppm thereof excluding eel. The maximum level applies to smoked crustaceans, excluding the brown meat of crab and excluding head and tborax meat of lobster and similar large crustaceans (Nephropidae and Palinuridae) Muscle meat of fish other than smoked fish 2ppm" (e) in A, a new regulation (27) after new regulation (26) "Inorganic Tin Canned foods including canned fish (other than beverages) must not exceed 200ppm". Dated at Suva this 8th day of September 2010. S.SAKETA Chairman, Central Board of Health N.SHARMA Minister for Health Price:soc R. S. au, Government Printer. Suva, Fiji 2010 Offidal Printer Slnrr 1MB 143!FGGS/2nl0···900