Positive List System - Uniform Limit

[Top of Positive List System] [MRLs List]

Positive List System for Agricultural Chemical Residues in Foods

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Notification No. 497

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has established the level given below, based on the provision of Paragraph 3, Article 11 of the Food Sanitation Law, as the amount unlikely to cause damage to human health that the provision requires the Minister to set; it will take effect on May 29, 2006.
Notwithstanding this notification, food products that are manufactured or processed on or before May 28, 2005 may observe the existing regulations, instead of the regulations to be applied from the given date.

November 29, 2005
Jiro Kawasaki
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

The amount unlikely to cause damage to human health that the provision of Paragraph 3, Article 11 of the Food Sanitation Law requires the Minister to set is 0.01 ppm.