Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Standard 1.4.1 – Contaminants and Natural Toxicants, and Schedule 19 – Maximum Levels of Contaminants and Natural Toxicants

The instrument

This page records the heavy-metal maximum levels set by Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Standard 1.4.1 – Contaminants and Natural Toxicants, and Schedule 19 – Maximum Levels of Contaminants and Natural Toxicants, the instrument of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ); Standard made under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth); administered by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, 2016. Every value below is transcribed into the Heavy Metal Index register from the primary text and is the value an HMTc standard cites when this jurisdiction binds a certification limit. It is a record of law, not an HMTc threshold.

Maximum levels

All values µg/kg (ppb), in the basis the instrument states. 28 maximum levels across 7 analytes and 24 product categories, grouped by analyte and ordered by limit.

Where HMTc cites it

Cells where this instrument holds the strictest government value in force among credible regulators, and therefore binds a published HMTc limit. 2 published standards cite it.

Rows appear here only once the citing standard is published. A limit recorded above that binds nothing today may still bind later, as other jurisdictions relax or as a new subcategory is published.

How this interacts with HMTc

HMTc certification standards adopt the strictest existing maximum level set by any credible government, applied cell-by-cell. Where this instrument holds the strictest value for a (product, analyte) cell, it binds the HMTc limit and the standard cites this page. This page does not set or justify any HMTc threshold; it records the sovereign requirement the program measures against.