8. Safety Parameters

Provision, Limits, Testing Methods

Foodstuff/General Foods

Regulations 37 & 39 outline requirements for Microbiological standards in food products. Please refer to Tables I & II for the specific microbiological standard requirements [1].

Provision, Limits, Testing Methods

Foodstuff/General Foods

Regulations 37 & 38 outline requirements for metal contamination in food products. Please refer to Table 1, 1A to 1E of the Fourteenth Schedule (Regulation 38) for the Maximum Permitted Proportion of Metal Contaminants in Specified Food [1].

Provision, Limits, Testing Methods

Foodstuff/General Foods

Regulations 37 & 41 outline requirements for pesticide residues in food products. [1]

No person shall import, prepare for sale, or sell any food:

(a) containing pesticide residue in a proportion greater than the proportion specified for that food in relation to that pesticide residue as set out in the Sixteenth Schedule;

(b) containing pesticide residue in a proportion greater than the proportion specified for that food in relation to that pesticide residue as recommended in the Codex Alimentarius, where the pesticide residue is not specified in the Sixteenth Schedule; or

(c) containing 0.01 milligram or more per kilogram of any pesticide residue, where the pesticide is not specified for that food in the Sixteenth Schedule or Codex Alimentarius.

Provision, Limits, Testing Methods

Foodstuff/General Foods

Regulation 40 outlines requirements for drug residues in food products [1]. Please refer to Table 1 of the Fifteenth Schedule (Regulation 40) MAXIMUM PERMITTED PROPORTION OF DRUG RESIDUES IN FOOD [1].

Provision, Limits, Testing Methods

Foodstuff/General Foods

Please refer to the other reports on packaging requirements for food contact materials and packaging requirements for food contact materials (hygiene standard) for Malaysia.