Description
This Resolution establishes the Maximum Tolerated Limits (MTL) of inorganic arsenic, total cadmium, total lead and inorganic tin in infant foods, and makes other provisions. The quantities of inorganic arsenic, total cadmium, total lead and inorganic tin should be as low as possible by applying the best practices and available production technologies.The quantities of the inorganic arsenic, total cadmium, total lead and inorganic tin contaminants shall not exceed the LMTs set forth in the Annex to this Resolution. In order to verify LMTs of contaminants inorganic arsenic, total cadmium, total lead and inorganic tin in infant foods, methodologies that meet the performance criteria set out in the most current version of the Procedural Manual of the Codex Alimentarius must be used.