Poisonous Substances in Food Regulations (Cap. 303)

SECTION 23-THE POISONOUS SUBSTANCES IN FOOD REGULATIONS Regulations by the Minister Statutory Instrument 215 of 1973 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Poisonous Substances in Food Regulations. Title 2. In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires- Interpretation "Act" means the Food and Drugs Act. 3. Except as provided in these Regulations, a food named in Part I or Part II of the Schedule hereto which contains in or upon it (a) any or all of the poisonous or harmful substances listed in amounts not exceeding the quantities stated therein in parts per million (p.p.m.) for that food; and (b) no other poisonous or harmful substance; is hereby exempted from the provision of paragraph (a) of section three of the Act. Limits for poisonous substances in food SCHEDULE Part I Substance in parts per million Foods Arsenic Lead Copper Zinc Iron Tin Apple juice - 0.3 5.0 5.0 10 150 Apricot nectar 0.2 0.3 - 5.0 15 250 Grapefruit juice - 0.3 5.0 5.0 15 250 Grape juice - 0.3 5.0 5.0 15 Lemon juice - 1.0 5.0 5.0 15 250 Orange juice - 0.3 5.0 5.0 15 250 Peach nectar 0.2 0.3 5.0 5.0 15 250 Pear nectar - 0.3 5.0 5.0 15 250 Tomato juice - 0.3 5.0 5.0 15 Dextrose anhydrous 1.0 2.0 2.0 - - Dextrose monohydrate 1.0 2.0 2.0 - - Glucose syrup 1.0 2.0 5.0 - - Dried glucose syrup 1.0 2.0 5.0 - - Soft sugars 1.0 2.0 10.0 - - White sugar 1.0 2.0 2.0 - - Powdered sugar 1.0 2.0 2.0 - - Lactose 1.0 2.0 2.0 - - Cocoa butter 0.5 0.5 0.4 - 20 Refined oils and fats 0.1 0.1 0.1 - 1.5 Virgin oils 0.1 0.1 0.4 - 5.0 Canned foods and - - - - - 250 vegetables Citric acid 1 10 50 50 - Tartaric acid 1 10 50 50 - Cream of tartar 2 20 50 50 - Sodium bicarbonate 2 5 50 50 - Baking powder 2 10 50 50 - Phosphoric acid 4 5 30 30 - Calcium phosphate 4 5 30 30 - Sodium potassium and 4 5 30 30 - ammonium phosphates Sodium and potassium 1 10 50 50 - nitrates Sodium nitrite 1 20 50 50 - Aluminium compounds 3 10 50 50 - Marine and fresh 5 10 100 100 - water animal products Liver 1 2 150 100 - Fresh fruits 2 7 50 50 - Fresh vegetables 1 2 50 50 - Gelatin 2 7 30 100 - Gelling agents, 2 20 50 200 - except gelatin Dried herbs and 5 10 50 50 - species Beverages as 0.1 0.2 2 5 - consumed and bottled water Tea 1 10 150 50 - Edible bone meal 1 10 20 150 - Fish protein 3.5 0.5 - - - Other foods not - 0.5 - - - specified Part II Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Aldicarb 2-methyl-2-(methylthio) 0.1 Cottonseed propionaldehyde O-(methyl carbamoyl) oxime Aldrin 1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-1,4,4a, 0.2 Beets, carrots, 5,8,8a-hexahydro-exo-1,4- potatoes, turn endo-5,8-dimethanonaphthalene 0.1 Maize grain, ma spinach, swee sorghum grain Aluminium Aluminium phosphide Phostoxin 0.1 Raw cereals phosphide 0.01 Flour and other products, brea cereals, dried vegetables, sp Anilazine 2,4-dichloro-6-(2-chloroanilino)- Dyrene 20 Strawberries 1,3,5-triazine 10 Blueberries, ce cranberries, c garlic, gooseb huckleberries, onions, shallo 5 Blackberries, cantaloupes, c dewberries, ho melons, logan muskberries, s pumpkins, ras watermelons 1.0 Potatoes Atrazine 2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6- 0.25 Maize grain, so isopropylamino-1,3,5-triazine grain, sugar c wheat grain 0.02 Eggs, milk, mea and meat by-p of cattle, goats horses, poultry sheep *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Azinphosmethyl S-[3,4-dihydro-4-oxobenzo(d)- Guthion 4.0 Apricots, grape (1,2,3)-triazin-3-ylmethyl] 1.0 Other fruits dimethyl 0.5 Vegetables phosphorothiolothionate Benomyl Methyl-N-[1-(butylcarbamoyl)- Benlate 15 Apricots, cherri 2-benzimi-dazole]carbamate nectarines, pe plums (includi prunes) 2.0 Snap beans (succulent) 1.0 Cucumbers, me summer squa winter squash 0.2 Banana pulp, p sugarbeet roo Binapacryl 2-(1-methyl-n-propyl)4,6- Morocide 1.0 Peaches, cherr dinitrophenyl 0.5 Apples, pears, 2-methylcrotonate 0.3 Plums 0.2 Nectarines Bonaid Ethyl 4-hydroxy-6,7- 0.4 Poultry meat an diisobutoxy-3-quinoline by-products, k carboxylate and liver of po poultry skin an underlying fat 0.1 Muscle of poult Bromophos 4-bromo-2,5-dichlorophenyl 1.5 Apples dimethyl phosporothionate Calcium cyanide Calcium cyanide 25 Barley, maize, oats, sorghum Captafol N-(1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethylthio)- Diflotan 15 Peaches 3a,4,7,7a- 10 Cherries (sour) tetrahydrophthalimide 2.0 Cherries (swee 5 Tomatoes 2.0 Melons (whole) 1.0 Cucumbers (wh 0.5 Apricots 0.2 Plums Captan N-(trichloro-methylthio)-3a,4, 40 Apples, cherrie 7,7a-tetrahydrophthalimide 30 Pears 20 Apricots 15 Citrus fruits, pe rhubarb, toma 10 Strawberries, raspberries, c cucumbers, g lettuce, marro peppers 5 Raisins Carbaryl 1-naphthyl methylcarbamate Sevin 10 Raspberries, bl boysenberries nectarines, as okra, leafy veg (except brass (whole), olives sunflower see avacadoes 7 Citrus fruits, fig guavas, mang mulberries, st blueberries, p 5 Apples, banana grapes, beans (including pod brassica, toma peppers, eggp poultry (skin) 0.5 Poultry (total) ( portions) 3.0 Cucurbits (inclu 2.5 Rice 1.0 Cottonseed (wh sweetcorn (ke nuts, maize, m shelled) olives meat of cattle sheep, sorghu 0.5 Onions 0.2 Potatoes *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Carbofuran 2,3-dihydro-2,2,-dimethyl Furadan 0.5** Turnips benzofuran-7-yl 0.2** Rice methylcarbamate 0.1** Maize grain, su Carbophenothion S-(4-chlorophenylthiomethyl) Trithion 2.0 Grapefruit, lem diethyl Garrathion limes, orange phosphorothiolothionate sorghum grain tangelos, tang 0.8 Apples, apricot snap (succule beans, lime (s form), beetroo cantaloupes, c crabapples, c eggplants, figs nectarines, ol onions (dry bu onions (green pears, peas (s form), pepper pimentos, plu prunes) quinc soybeans (suc form), spinach strawberries, squash, toma watermelons 0.2 Maize (kernels with husk rem 0.1 Fat of cattle, go hogs and she Chinomethionat 6-methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dithiolo Morestan 6.0 Strawberries (4,5-b)-quinoxaline 4.0 Apricots, peach 3.0 Cherries 1.5 Apples, honeyd melons, musk (cantaloupes) summer squa 1.0 Plums (fresh pr 0.75 Cucumbers, wa melons, winte Chlorbenside 4-chlorophenzyl 4-chlorophenyl 3.0 Apples, apricot sulphide crabapples, eg grapes, necta peaches, plum strawberries, Chlordane 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,8-octachloro- 0.3 Potatoes, swee 3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7- rutabagas, tur methyleneindane parsnips, suga radishes 0.2 Asparagus, bro Brussels spro cabbage, cele cauliflower, m greens, spina 0.2 Swiss chard, le 0.02 Beans, peas, e tomatoes, col wheat, rye, oa (polished), ma popcorn 0.05 Sorghum 0.1 Cantaloupes, c pumpkins, squ watermelons 0.1 Almonds, bana guavas, filbert mangoes, oliv passion fruit, pecans 0.1 Pomegranates pineapples, strawberries, w 0.02 Citrus, pome an fruits 0.5 Crude soyabea linseed oils 0.1 Crude cottonse 0.02 Edible cottonse *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. ** Including its metabolite 2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxy-7-benzofuranyl N-methylcarbamate. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Chlordane- 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,8-octachloro- 0.02 Edible soyabea continued 3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7- 0.05 Milk and milk p methyleneindane- (fat basis) continued 0.05 Fat of meat and 0.02 Eggs (shell-free Chlorfenson 4-chlorophenyl ovex 5.0 Citrus fruits 4-chlorobenzenesulphonate Ovotran 3.0 Apples, peache plums, prunes Chlorfenvinphos 2-chloro-1-(2,4-dichloro- Birlane 0.4 Carrots, celery phenyl) vinyl diethyl 0.2 meat (fat basis phosphate 0.2 Milk and milk p 0.1 cauliflower, ra horseradish, t 0.05 Brussels sprou broccoli, swed potatoes, swe onions, leeks, mushrooms, p (shelled), mai grain, cottons (raw and polis Clopidol 3,5-dichloro-2,6-dimethyl-4- 25 Uncooked liver (Coyden 25) pyridinol kidney of poul 10 Uncooked tissu poultry Chlorobenzilate Ethyl 4,4'- 5.0 Apples, pears ( dichlorodiphenylglycollate or fruit) ethyl 4,4'-dichlorobenzilate 1.0 Citrus fruit (who 0.2 almonds, waln (without shells 1.0 Melons, cantalo Chlorphenamidine N N-dimethyl-N'-(2-methyl-4- 5.0 Pears chlorophenyl)-formamidine 4.0 Peaches 3.0 Apples Chlorphenamidine N N-dimethyl-N'-2(-methyl-4- 5.0 Pears hydrochloride chlorophenyl)-formamidine hydrochloride 4.0 Peaches, plum 3.0 Apples, Brusse cauliflower 2.0 Broccoli 0.5 Cabbages Chlorpropham Isopropyl N-(3-chlorophenyl) Chloro-IPC 50 Potatoes carbamate CIPC Chloropropylate Isopropyl 4,4'-dichlorobenzilate 3.0 Apples, pears, fruit (whole) 1.0 Tomatoes, can Chlorthal methyl Dimethyl ester of 2,3,5,6-tetra- Daethal 5 Mustard greens chloroterephthalic acid turnip greens 2.0 Beans, black-e collards, kale, peppers, pime potatoes, soyb strawberries, potatoes, turn 1.0 Broccoli, Bruss sprouts, cabb cantaloupes, g honeydew me onions, summ tomatoes, wat melons, winte 0.05 Maize grain, po sweetcorn (ke cob with husk Coumaphos 3-chloro-4-methyl-7-coumarinyl Co-Ral 0.05 Eggs (shell-free diethyl phosphorothionate 0.5 Meat (including on fat basis Crufomate 4-tertiary butyl-2-chlorophenyl 0.05 Whole milk methyl-N- 1.0 Meat (fat basis methylphosphoroamidate *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Dalapon-Na Sodium 2,2 dichloropropionate Dowpon 35 Peaches, plum Radapon 30 Asparagus 15 Peas 10 Maize grain, dr corn (kernels potatoes, cran citrus fruits 5 Bananas, grape sugarbeets (ro tops) tangerin corn (including corn kernels p with husk rem 3.0 Apples, grapes pineapples 2.0 Coffee 1.0 Apricots DDT 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-di-(4- Arkotine 7 Apples, pears, chlorophenyl)ethane apricots, sma (except strawb vegetables (ex meat or poultr basis) 1.0 Maize, millets, wheat grain, sunflower see nuts (shelled) strawberries, vegetables 3.5 Cherries, plums and tropical fr 0.5 Whole milk 1.25 Milk products (f 0.5 Eggs (shell-free Dehydroacetic 3-acetyl-6-methyl-2,4-pyran- 65 Strawberries acid (sodium salt) dione, sodium salt 10 Bananas (edibl Demeton A mixture of diethyl 2- 1.25 Grapes, hops (ethylthio)ethyl phosphorothionate and diethyl-2-(ethylthio)ethyl phosphorothiolate 0.75 Almonds, apple apricots, barle broccoli, Brus sprouts, cabb cauliflower, ce filberts, grape lemon, lettuce muskmelons, oat grain, oran peaches, pea pecans, pepp potatoes, stra tomatoes, wal wheat grain 0.5 Sugarbeets 0.2 Sorghum grain Diazinon Diethyl 2-isopropyl-6-methyl- Basudin 0.7 Peaches, citrus 4-Pyrimidinyl cherries phosphorthionate 0.5 Other fruits 0.7 Leafy vegetable 0.5 Other vegetabl 0.1 Wheat, barley, (polished) 0.5 Almonds, walnu filberts, pecan peanuts (shel 0.5 Cottonseed, sa seed, sunflow seed 0.7 Sweet corn (ke cobs with hus removed) 2.0 Olives and olive 0.7 Fat of meat of c sheep and ho *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Dibromo- 1,2,dibromo-3-chloropropane Fumazone 130 Endive, lettuce chloropropane Nemagon 125 Bananas (in pu Fumagon 75 Beans, carrots, figs, okra, par radishes, turn 50 Broccoli, Bruss sprouts, cabb cantaloupes, c eggplants, ho melons, musk peppers, pine tomatoes 25 Blackberries, boysenberries cucumbers, d grapes, logan raspberries, s squash 20 Citrus fruits 10 Strawberries, w 5 Apricots, necta peaches Dichlone 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphtho- 15 Strawberries quinone 3.0 Apples, beans, cherries, peac (fresh prunes) Dichlorvos 2,2 dichloro-vinyl dimethyl DDVS 5.0 Cocoa beans DDVP phosphate Nogos 2.0 Raw grain (whe Vapona rye, oats, barl sorghum, etc. 0.5 Milled products raw grain 2.0 Coffee beans, s lentils, peanut 0.5 Mushrooms 0.5 Fresh vegetabl (except lettuce 1.0 Lettuce 0.5 Tomatoes 0.1 Fresh fruit (app pears, peache strawberries, 0.05 Meat of cattle, goats, pigs an 0.05 Eggs (shell-free 0.02 Milk (whole) 0.1 Miscellaneous not otherwise Dicloran 2,6-dichloro-4-nitroaniline Botran 20 Apricots, necta Allisan peaches, swe snap beans 15 Blackberries, boysenberries raspberries, s 5 Cucumbers, ga onions, tomat 1.0 Plums (fresh pr 0.25 Potatoes Dicofol 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-di(4- Kelthane 5 Fruit, hops, veg chlorophenyl)ethanol tea (dry manu factured) Dieldrin 1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-6,7- 0.1 Asparagus, bea epoxy-1,4,4a,5,6,7,8,8a- broccoli, Brus octahydro-exo-1,4-endo exo- sprouts, cabb 5,8 dimethanonaphthalene cauliflower, ch cabbage, cow cucumber, eg horseradish, k kohlrabi, onio parsnips, pea peppers, pime radishes, radi soyabeans, tu 0.1 Fruit (other tha citrus), maize 0.05 Citrus fruit, sug 0.02 Rice (rough) 0.2 Potatoes 0.2 Carrots, lettuce Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Dieldrin- 1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-6,7- 0.15 Milk and milk p continued epoxy-1,4,4a,5,6,7,8,8a- (fat basis) octahydro-exo-1,4-endo exo- 0.02 Raw cereals (o 5,8 dimethanonaphthalene- rice) continued 0.1 Eggs (shell-free Dimethoate Dimethyl S-(N- 2.0 Tree fruit (inclu methylcarbamoylmethyl) citrus) phosphorothiolothionate 1.0 Maize, millets a sorghum, tom and peppers 2.0 Other vegetabl Dioxathion 1,4-dioxan-2,3-ylidene Delnav 5.0 Pome fruit bis(OO-diethyl) 2.0 Grapes phosphorothiolothionate 3.0 Citrus fruit 1.0 Meat, excluding Diphenyl Biphenyl, or phenyl 110 Citrus fruit benzene Diphenamid NN-dimethyl-2,2- 1.0 Potatoes, straw diphenylacetamide 0.1 Eggplants, pep pimentos, tom Diphenylamine Diphenylamine 10.0 Diquat(cation) 9,10-dihydro-8a,10a- 5 Rice (in husk) diazoniaphenanthrene ion 2.0 Rape seed, sor 0.1 Peas, beans, s 0.1 Onions, potatoe rice (polished 0.1 Edible oils (ses seed, sunflow rape seed, co Disul-sodium Sodium 4,dichlorophenoxy 2.0 Asparagus, stra ethyl sulphate 6 Potatoes, pean Disulfoton Diethyl S-[2-(ethylthio)ethyl] 0.75 Barley grain, be phosphorothiolothionate broccoli, Brus sprouts, cabb cauliflower, co lettuce, oatgra peanuts, peas pineapples, po rice, sorghum spinach, toma 0.5 Hops, sugar be 0.3 Coffee, maize g sugar cane, w grain 0.1 Peppers, soyab Diuron 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1 7 Asparagus dimethylurea 1.0 Apples, articho barley grain, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries fruits, maize in or ear form (in sweet corn, fie popcorn), cott currants, dew gooseberries, huckleberries loganberries, olives, pears, pineapple, po raspberries, ry sorghum grain cane, vetch (s wheat grain Dodine Dodecylguanidine acetate Melprex 5 Apples, cherrie pears *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Dodine- Dodecylguanidine acetate- 10 Strawberries continued continued 2.0 Peanuts, peas, soyabeans 0.3 Black walnuts a pecans 0.2 Maize, millets, wheat Endosulfan 6,7,8,9,10,10-hexachloro- Thiodan 30 Tea (dry manuf 1,5,5a,6,9,9a-hexahydro- Thionex 2.0 Fruit, vegetable 6,9-methano-2,4,3-benzo(e) 0.5 Cottonseed dioxathiepin-3-oxide 0.2 Cottonseed oil 0.1 Rice, unpolishe Endrin 1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-6,7- 0.1 Cottonseed, co epoxy-1,4,4a,5,6,7,8,8a- oil (crude) octahydro-exo-1,4-exo-5,8- 0.2 Edible cottonse dimethanonaphthalene maize oil 0.02 Apples, wheat, sorghum, rice and/or polishe 0.02 Milk and milk p (fat basis) 1.0 Fat of poultry 0.2 Eggs (shell-free EPN Ethyl 4-nitrophenyl 3.0 Apples, apricot phenylphosphonothionate beets, blackbe boysenberries citrus fruits, m dewberries, g lettuce, logan nectarines, ol peaches, pea pineapples, p (fresh prunes) raspberries, ru spinach, straw sugar beets (n tomatoes, turn youngberries 0.5 Almonds, cotto pecans, walnu 0.05 Soyabeans Ethion Tetraethyl SS'-methylene bis 2.0 Grapes (phosphorothiolothionate) 1.0 Other fruit 0.5 Vegetables 7 Tea 2.5 Meat (fat basis Etoxyquin 1,2-dihydro-6-ethoxy-2,2,4- 3.0 Apples, pears trimethylquinoline Ethylene 1,2-dibromoethane 75 Broccoli, carrot dibromide EDB parsnips, pota 50 Eggplant, okra, squash, swee sweet potatoe tomatoes, bar sorghum and 40 Pineapple 30 Cucumbers, let peppers 25 Cottonseed, pe 10 Asparagus, cau 5 Lima beans, st Fenchlorphos Dimethyl 2,4,5-trichlorophenyl 7.5 Meat (fat basis phosphorothionate 0.05 Egg yolk 0.04 Whole milk Fenitrothion Dimethyl 3-methyl-4- Sumithion 2.0 Maize and sorg nitrophenyl phosphorothionate Folithion 0.05 Apples, cherrie Danathion lettuce 0.3 Red cabbage, t at harvest) 0.2 Tomatoes 0.1 Cocoa, coffee b 0.05 Milk products (f 0.03 Meat or fat of m 0.02 Milk (whole) *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Fentin acetate Triphenyl tin acetate Brestan 1.0 Celery Fentin hydroxide Triphenyl tin hydroxide } Du-ter 0.2 Sugarbeet, car 0.1 Potatoes, celer 0.05 Peanuts (shelle Fensulfothion Diethyl 4-(methylsulphinyl) 01 Maize grain, on phenyl phosphorothioate potatoes, tom 0.05 Peanuts, pinea sugarbeets 0.02 Bananas, suga 0.02 Meat, fat and m products of ca goats and she Fenthion Dimethyl 3-methyl-4- Lebaycid 2.0 Apples, peache methylthiophenyl cherries, fat o phosphorothionate 1.0 Cabbage, cauli olives, olive o 0.5 Grapes, orange meat 0.2 Squash Fenazaflor Phenyl 5,6-dichloro-2- Lovozal 2.0 Apples trifluoromethylebnzimidazole 1-carboxylate Ferbam Ferric dimethyldithiocarbamate 7 Apples, apricot asparagus, be blackberries, peas, blueber brocoli, Bruss sprouts, cabb cauliflower, ce cherries, colla cranberries, c currants, date eggplants, go grapes, guava huckleberries kohlrabi, lettuc loganberries, melons, musta nectarines, on papayas, pea peanuts, pear peppers, plum prunes), pump quinces, radis raspberries, ru spinach, squa strawberries, squash, toma 0.1 Almonds Folpet N-(trichloromethylthio) Phaltan 30 Currants (fresh phthalimide 25 Grapes, bluebe 15 Cherries, raspb 10 Apples, citrus f 5 Tomatoes, stra 2.0 Cucumbers, ca (whole), water (whole), onion Fonolos O-ethylphenyl 0.1 Asparagus, ma ethylphosphonothiolathionate peanuts, beet chicory, garlic onion, horsera jerusalem arti leeks, onions, potatoes, radi rutabagas, sa shallots, sprin sugar beets, s potatoes, turn *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Formothion S-(N-formyl-N- 0.3 Strawberries methylcarbamoylmethyl) 2.0 Blackcurrants dimethyl phosphorothiolothionate Glyodin 2-heptadecyl-2-imidazoline Crab 5 Apples, cherries acetate Fungicide peaches, pears 341 Heptachlor 1,4,5,6,7,8,8-heptachloro- 0.15 Milk and milk pro 3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7- (fat basis) methanoindene 0.2 Fat of meat and 0.02 Raw cereals, tom cottonseed, s edible soyab 0.05 Vegetables (exc where otherw specified), eg 0.2 Carrots 0.5 Crude soyabean 0.01 Citrus fruit HHC (BHC) Mixed isomers of 1,2,3,4,5,6- 1.0 Apples, apricots hexachlorocyclohexane asparagus, a broccoli, Bru sprouts, cabb cauliflower, c cherries, coll cucumbers, e grapes, kale, lettuce, melo 1.0 nectarines, okra (dry bulb only peaches, pea plums (fresh pumpkins, sp strawberries, summer squa swiss chard, Hydrogen cyanide Hydrogen cyanide 75 Raw cereals 6 Flour Lindane Gamma isomer of benzene 0.5 Raw cereals hexachloride 3.0 Vegetables 3.0 Cranberries, che grapes, plum stawberries 2.0 Fat of meat (catt pigs, sheep) 1.0 Maize and sorgh beans (dried 0.2 Eggs (yolk) 0.1 Milk and milk pro (fat basis) 0.7 Poultry (fat basis Linuron 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1- 1.0 Carrots, potatoe soyabeans, m and meat by of cattle, goa horses and s 0.25 Maize in grain or form, sweet c popcorn, cott barley, oats, sorghum and Malathion S-[1,2-di(ethoxycarbonyl)ethyl] Maladrex 8 Raw cereals, nu dimethyl dried fruits phosphorothiolothionate 2.0 Whole meal and from rye and 4.0 Citrus fruit 8 Blackberries, raspberries, lettu endive, cabbage *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Malathion- 8 chinese cabba continued marrow, soya spinach, maiz sorghum 6 Avacado, cherr guava, mango mulberry, pea plums, pomeg 5 Broccoli 3.0 Tomatoes, kale 2.0 Beans (green), 1.0 Strawberries, c 0.5 Pears, blueberr (in pod), cauli peppers, eggp kohlrabi, roots turnips), swiss collards Maleic hydrazide 6-hydroxy-3-(2H)-pyridazinone 50 Potatoes 30 Beets, carrots, rutabagas 15 Onions Mancozeb A complex of zinc and maneb Dithane M-45 2.0 Marrows and p containing 20% manganese and 2.5% zinc 1.0 Potatoes Maneb Manganese ethylene-1,2- Dithane M-22 2.0 Bananas (edibl bisdithiocarbamate 10 Apricots, beans (succulent), b Brussels spro cabbage, cau celery, chines collards, endiv (escarole), ka kohlrabi, lettuc mustard green nectarines, pa peaches, rhub spinach, turni 7 Apples, beans carrots, cranb cucumbers, e figs, grapes, m onions, peppe pumpkins, sum squash, swee (kernels plus c husks remove tomatoes, turn winter squash 0.1 Almonds, potat Mercapto- Mercaptobenzothiazole 0.1 Apples benzothiazole Methomyl 1-(methylthio)ethylidenea Lannate 5 Cabbage mino N-methylcarbamate 0.2 Fruiting vegeta leafy vegetabl (except cabba 0.1 Maize grain (in popcorn), fres including swe (kernels plus c husks remove Methoxychlor 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-di- 14 Apaples, aprico (4-methoxyphenyl)ethane asparagus, be blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries Brussels spro cabbage, cau cherries, colla maize (in hus cranberries, c currants, dew eggplants, go grape, kale, k lettuce, logan melons, mush nectarines, pe peanuts, pear *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Methoxychlor- 14 peppers, pine continued plums (fresh p pumpkins, qu radishes, rasp rutabagas, sp squash, straw summer squa tomatoes, turn youngberries 7 Sweet potatoes 3.0 Fat of meat from goats, hogs, h 2.0 Barley, maize, of oats, rice, r sorghum, whe 1.0 Potatoes Methyl bromide Bromomethane Dowfume 100 Nuts, peanuts 50 Raw cereals, c 20 Dried fruits 10 Milled cereal pr 0.5 Bread, other co cereal produc fruits and nuts Methyl ester of Methyl ester of α-naphthalene 9 Potatoes α-naphthalene acetic acid acetic acid Methyl formate Methyl formate 250 Currants, dates Mevinphos 2-methoxy-carbonyl-1- Phosdrin 0.25 Apples, aspara methylvinyl dimethyl broccoli, Brus phosphate sprouts, cabb cauliflower, ce 0.25 collards, kale, mustard green (green), pears plums, raspbe spinach, straw tomatoes, turn tops Monuron 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-1,1- 7 Asparagus dimethylurea 1.0 Avacados, citru fruits, grapes, grape cottonseed, k lemons, limes oranges, pineapple, sp sugar cane, ta tangerines Nabam Disodium ethylene-1,2- 7 Apples, apricot bisdithiocarbamate beets, blackbe black-eyed pe broccoli, Brus sprouts, cabb carrots, caulif cherries, citru maize, cranbe cucumbers, c eggplants, en gooseberries, guavas, kohlra loganberries, mushrooms, n onions, parsle peaches, pea peas, peppers pumpkins, qu radishes, rasp rutabagas, sa squash, straw summer squa chard, tomato Naled 1,2-dibromo-2,2-dichloroethyl Dibrom 0.5 Beans (dry and dimethyl phosphate succulent form cucumbers, e melons (canta honeydew me melons, water and others), p and succulent *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Naled 0. 5 peppers, pum continued rice, soya bea and succulent summer squa tomatoes, win 1.0 Broccoli, Bruss sprouts, cabb cauliflower, le strawberries 3.0 Chard, grapefru lemons, orang spinach, tange turnip tops Nicotine -3-(1-methyl-2-pyrrolidyl) 2.0 Apples, apricot pyridine artichokes, as beans, beets, blackberries, peas, boysenb broccoli, Brus sprouts, cabb cantaloupes, c celery, cherrie collads, maize cucumbers, e grapefruits, gr green onions, kohlrabi, lemo lettuce, lima b limes, mushro melons, musta nectarines, ok oranges, pars parsnips, pea peas, peppers plums, prunes pumpkins, qu radishes, ruta snapbeans, s strawberries, squash, swiss tangerines, to turnips, water winter squash youngberries Omethoate Dimethyl S-(N- 2.0 Apples, beans, methylcarbamoyl-methyl) cabbage, cau phosphorothioate collards, endiv (escarole), ka lettuce, orang peas, peppers swiss chard, t turnips 1.0 melons 0.2 Potatoes 0.1 Pecans 0.04 Wheat grain 0.02 Meat, fat and m products of ca hogs, horses Omite 2-(P-T-butylphenoxy) 3.0 Apples, citrus, cyclohexyl propargyl sulphite 3.0 plums, prunes 4.0 Nectarines 7 Apricots, peach grapes, straw 30 Hops (dried) Paraquat 1,1'-dimethyl-4,4'- Gramoxone 0.2 Cottonseed bipyridylium ion 0.1 Potatoes 0.05 Cottonseed me cottonseed oi sugar cane ju 0.7 Vegetables (ex carrots) 1.0 Peaches, apric citrus fruit 0.5 Other fresh frui Parathion Diethyl 4-nitrophenyl Folidol 0.7 Vegetables (ex phosphorothionate carrots) 1.0 Peaches, apric citrus fruit 0.5 Other fresh frui *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Parathion-methyl Dimethyl 4-nitrophenyl 0.2 Fruit, cole crop phosphorothionate cucurbits 1.0 Other vegetabl 0.05 Cottonseed oil 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis Perthane 15 Apples, brocco (4-ethylphenyl)ethane Brussels sprou cabbage, cau cherries, chine cabbage, end kohlrabi, lettuc mustard green pears, spinac 2-phenyl phenol 2-hydroxydiphenyl 120 Cantaloupes (w (and sodium 25 Pears salts) 20 Carrots, peach 15 Sweet potatoes plums (includi prunes) 10 Citrus fruit, cuc peppers, cant (edible portion pineapples, to 3.0 Cherries, necta Phorate Diethyl S-(ethylthiomethyl) 0.5 Hops, potatoes phosphorothiolothioate 0.3 Sugar beet roo 0.1 Barley grain, be maize grain, s (kernels plus c husk removed peanuts, rice, grain, sugar c tomatoes Phosalone S-(6-chloro-2-oxobenzoxazolin- 4.0 Peaches 3-yl)methyl diethyl 6 Cherries phosphorothiolothionate 10 Apples, pears Phosmet OO-dimethyl phtalimidomethyl Imidan 5 Plums phosphorothionate 7 Cherries 10 Apples, grapes pears Phosphamidon 2-chloro-2-diethylcarbamoyl-1- 0.1 Raw cereals 1-methylvinyl dimethyl 0.5 Apples, pears phosphate 0.4 Citrus fruit 0.2 Other fruit, cole 0.1 Tomatoes, lettu cucumbers, w 0.2 Other vegetabl root vegetable which a tolera not required) Piperonyl 5-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy- 20 Raw cereals butoxide methyl]-6-propyl-1,3- 8 Fresh fruit and benzodioxole vegetables, d and vegetable seeds, treenu 1.0 Dried cod fish Pyrethrins 4 hydroxy-3-methyl 2-(2,4- 3.0 Raw cereals pentadienyl)-2-cyclopenten- 1.0 Fresh fruit and 1-one-2,2-dimethyl-3(2-& vegetables, d methyl-propenyl)cy and vegetable clopropane-carboxylate and treenuts 4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-(2,4- 0.1 Dried cod fish pentadienyl)-2-cyclopenten 1-one 1-methyl 3-carboxy a,2,2-trimethylcyclopropane acrylate ester Quinomethionate 6-methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dithiolo Morestan 6 Strawberries (4,5-b)-quinoxaline 4.0 Apricots, peach 3.0 Cherries 1.5 Apples, honeyd melons, musk cantaloupes, summer squa 1.0 Plums (fresh pr 0.75 Cucumbers, wa winter squash Quintozene Pentachloronitrobenzene 10 Mushrooms 5 Peanuts (whole 1.0 Bananas (whol 0.3 Lettuce, peanu (kernels) *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Quintozene- 0.2 Beans (navy), p continued 0.1 Tomatoes 0.03 Cottonseed 0.02 Bananas (pulp) sprouts, brocc cabbage, chin cabbage, cau kale, kohlrabi, 0.01 Beans (other th peppers (bell) Schradan bis-NNN'N'-tetramethyl- 0.75 English walnuts phosphorodiamidic anhydride Simazine 2-chloro-4,6-bis(ethylamino)- 10 Asparagus 1,3,5-triazine 0.5 Artichokes 0.25 Almonds, apple cherries, fresh including swe (kernels plus c husks remove cranberries, c dewberries, fi grapefruit, gra lemons, logan macadamia n oranges, peac plums, raspbe strawberries, 0.02 Eggs, milk, me and meat by-p of cattle, goat horses, poultr Sodium O-phenyl phenol, sodium salt 125 Cantaloupes orthophenyl 25 Apples, pears phenate 20 Carrots, peach 15 Sweet potatoes 10 Citrus fruits, cu peppers (bell) pineapples, to 5 Cherries, necta Sutan S-ethyl-NN-di-iso 0.1 Maize butylthiolcarbamate Tecnazene 1,2,4,5-tetrachloro-3- Fusarex 25 Potatoes nitrobenzene Tetrachlorvinphos Cisisomer of 2-chloro-1-(2,4,5- Gardona 10 Apples, sweet c trichlorophenyl)vinyl (kernels plus c dimethyl phosphate husks remove grain 8 Sorghum 0.75 Fat of meat of p 0.1 Eggs, meat and products of po Tetradifon 2,4,4',5-tetrachlorodophenyl 100 Peppermint, sp Sulphone 30 Fresh hops 10 Figs 5 Apples, apricot crabapples, c grapes, necta peaches, pea prunes, quinc strawberries 2.0 Citrus fruits 1.0 Cucumbers, me pumpkins, tom winter squash TDE 1,1,dichloro-2,2-di- 7 Apples, apricot (4 chlorophenyl)ethane blueberries, c eggplants, gra melons, necta peaches, pea pumpkins, qu squash, summ tomatoes 3.5 Blackberries, b cherries, citru dewberries, lo plums (fresh p raspberries, strawberries, corn (kernels with husks rem *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. TDE- 1.0 Broccoli, Bruss continued sprouts, cabb carrots, caulif kohlrabi, lettuc rutabagas, sp turnips Tetrasul 4-chlorophenyl 2,4,5- 0.1 Apples trichlorophenyl sulphide Thiabendazole 2-4(4'-thiazolyl)benzimidazole Tector 6 Citrus fruit 3.0 Bananas 0.4 Bananas (pulp) Thiram Bis(dimethylthiocarbamoyl) 7 Apples, celery, disulphide strawberries, 1.0 Bananas (edibl 0.5 Onions (dry bu Toxaphene Chlorinated camphene having a 7 Apples, apricot chlorine content of 67-69% blackberries, boysenberries Brussels spro cabbage, carr cauliflower, ce citrus fruit, co maize, cranbe cucumbers, d eggplants, fat 7 from cattle, go horses and sh hazelnuts, hic horseradish, k kohlrabi, lettuc loganberries, okra, onions, peaches, pea peas, pecans pimentos, qui radishes, rasp rutabagas, sp strawberries, walnuts, youn 5 Barley, oats, ric sorghum grain 2.0 Soyabeans (dry Tricyclohexyltin Tricyclohexyltin hydroxide 2.0 Apples, pears hydroxide Trifluralin 2,6-dinitro-NN-dipropyl-4- Treflan 1.0 Carrots trifluoromethylamiline 0.5 Citrus fruits, co cucurbits, fruit vegetables, g hops, leafy ve nuts, peanuts vegetables (ex safflower seed vegetables, st cane, sunflow grain Trizone Methylbromide with added 25 Broccoli, caulifl chloropierin and propargyl peppers, pine bromide strawberries 40 Muskmelons, to 60 Eggplants Zineb Zinc ethylene-1,2- Dithane Z-78 60 Hops bisdithiocarbamate 25 Chinese cabba endive, kale, l mustard green spinach, swiss 7 Apples, apricot beets, blackbe boysenberries Brussels spro carrots, caulif cherries, citru cranberries, c currants, dew gooseberries, guavas, kohlra loganberries, mushrooms, n onions, parsle peanuts, pear peppers, plum *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. Trade name, Common name Chemical name if any, in Tolerance* use in Zambia p.p.m. Zineb-continued prunes), pump radishes, rasp rutabagas, sa strawberries, summer squa tomatoes, turn youngberries 1.0 Wheat Ziram Zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate 7 Apples, apricot beets, blackbe blueberries, boysenberries Brussels spro cabbage, carr cauliflower, ce cherries, colla cranberries, cucumbers, dewberries, e gooseberries, kale, kohlrabi, loganberries, nectarines, on peaches, pea peas, peppers pumpkins, qu radishes, rasp rutabagas, sp squash, straw summer squa tomatoes, turn youngberries 0.1 Almonds 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic 0.2 Barley, oats, ry acid wheat *Also includes practical residue limits occurring in foods not necessarily due to application to protect food against pest attack. SECTION 23-THE FOOD AND DRUGS (FOOD IN AIRTIGHT CONTAINERS) REGULATIONS Regulations by the Minister Statutory Instrument 41 of 1992 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Food and Drugs (Food in Air tight Containers) Regulations, and shall come into operation on the 7th day of February, 1992. Title and commencement 2. No person shall sell or shall prepare, keep, transmit or expose for sale, without reasonable excuse, any articles of food which is packed in Sale of food packed in