Draft Food (Mycotoxins) Regulations 2020

Regular notification 2019-09-12
G/SPS/N/LKA/42

Description

These regulations prescribe that no person shall manufacture, process, import, transport, distribute, store, sell, offer or expose for sale any food containing the types of mycotoxins in amounts exceeding the levels prescribed in the Schedule I of these regulations.And hereby, these regulations repealed the Sections (c), (d) and (e) of the Regulation 24 in Part II (General Prohibition and Regulation of Sale) of the Food (Labeling and Miscellaneous) Regulations – 1993 published in Gazette No: 788/7 dated 14 October 1993.
The Schedule I covers Maximum Levels of Mycotoxins in Foodstuffs (obtained from the Commission Regulations (EC) No 1887/2006).

Keywords

Mycotoxins; Toxins; Food safety; Human health