India: FSSAI Clarifies Food Product Categories That Qualify for Default Insecticide Tolerance Limits

The Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority published a clarification to the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulations, 2011, that all agricultural food products and associated processed food categories that do not have fixed insecticide maximum residue levels will have a default limit of 0.01 mg/kg. The clarification notes that the default limit does not apply to thermally and chemically processed foods.

India: FSSAI Clarifies Food Product Categories That Qualify for Default Insecticide Tolerance Limits