Colombia Resolucion 4506:2013 - food contaminant maximum levels

The instrument

This page records the heavy-metal maximum levels set by Colombia Resolucion 4506:2013 - food contaminant maximum levels, the instrument of Ministerio de Salud y Proteccion Social, 2014. 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.

Transcribed into the Heavy Metal Index regulatory register from the primary text published by Ministerio de Salud y Proteccion Social; a direct primary-source URL is not tracked for this instrument.

Maximum levels

All values µg/kg (ppb), in the basis the instrument states. 42 maximum levels across 5 analytes and 35 product categories, grouped by analyte and ordered by limit.

Limit µg/kg	Basis	Product scope	Provision
Lead (Pb)20 limits
10	as consumed	natural mineral waters	Article 3 table row 11.19
20	ready-to-consume (as sold or reconstituted per manufacturer instructions)	infant formula and follow-on formula	Article 3 table row 11.2 with footnote 2
20	fresh weight	raw milk, heat-treated milk, and milk for dairy-product manufacture	Article 3 table row 11.1
50	fresh weight; reconstituted where applicable	fruit juices, reconstituted concentrated fruit juices, and fruit nectars	Article 3 table row 11.11
100	fresh weight	dairy fat	Article 3 table row 11.10
100	fresh weight	fruits excluding berries and small fruits	Article 3 table row 11.8 with footnotes 14 and 15
100	fresh weight	meat of bovine, ovine, swine, and poultry, excluding fresh non-carcass meat, offal, and blood	Article 3 table row 11.3
100	fresh weight	vegetables excluding Brassica, leafy vegetables, fresh herbs, mushrooms, and seaweed; potatoes after peeling	Article 3 table row 11.6 with footnote 14
200	fresh weight	berries and small fruits	Article 3 table row 11.9 with footnotes 14 and 15
200	fresh weight	green legumes, cereals, and dried legumes	Article 3 table row 11.5
300	fresh weight	Brassica vegetables, leafy vegetables, Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, and Lentinula edodes mushrooms	Article 3 table row 11.7 with footnote 14
500	fresh weight	fresh non-carcass meat, offal, and blood of bovine, ovine, swine, and poultry	Article 3 table row 11.4
1000	product as placed on market	canned chestnuts and canned chestnut puree	Article 3 table row 11.13
1000	product as placed on market	canned fruit cocktail	Article 3 table row 11.16
1000	product as placed on market	canned strawberries, raspberries, and pineapple	Article 3 table row 11.18
1000	product as placed on market	canned tropical fruits	Article 3 table row 11.15
1000	product as placed on market	mango hot sauce and canned mangoes	Article 3 table row 11.12
1000	product as placed on market	pickled cucumbers	Article 3 table row 11.14
1000	product as placed on market	table olives	Article 3 table row 11.17
2000	product as placed on market	food-grade salt	Article 3 table row 11.20
Total arsenic (tAs)2 limits
10	as consumed	natural mineral waters	Article 3 table row 9.1
500	product as placed on market	food-grade salt	Article 3 table row 9.2
Cadmium (Cd)13 limits
3	as consumed	natural mineral waters	Article 3 table row 12.12
50	fresh weight	meat of bovine, ovine, swine, and poultry, excluding fresh non-carcass meat, offal, and blood	Article 3 table row 12.1
50	fresh weight	vegetables and fruits excluding leafy vegetables, fresh herbs, Brassica leafy vegetables, mushrooms, young stems, root and tuber vegetables, and seaweed	Article 3 table row 12.8 with footnotes 14 and 15
100	fresh weight	cereals excluding bran, germ, wheat, and rice	Article 3 table row 12.5
100	fresh weight	young stems and root or tuber vegetables excluding celeriac; potatoes after peeling	Article 3 table row 12.9 with footnote 14
200	fresh weight	bran, germ, wheat, and rice	Article 3 table row 12.6
200	fresh weight	horse meat excluding fresh non-carcass meat, offal, and blood	Article 3 table row 12.2
200	fresh weight	leafy vegetables, fresh herbs, Brassica leafy vegetables, celeriac, Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, and Lentinula edodes mushrooms	Article 3 table row 12.10 with footnote 14
200	fresh weight	soybeans	Article 3 table row 12.7
500	product as placed on market	food-grade salt	Article 3 table row 12.13
500	fresh weight	liver of bovine, ovine, swine, poultry, and horses	Article 3 table row 12.3
1000	fresh weight	kidneys of bovine, ovine, swine, poultry, and horses	Article 3 table row 12.4
1000	fresh weight	mushrooms excluding Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, and Lentinula edodes	Article 3 table row 12.11 with footnote 14
Mercury, total (tHg)2 limits
1	as consumed	natural mineral waters	Article 3 table row 10.1
100	product as placed on market	food-grade salt	Article 3 table row 10.2
Tin (Sn)5 limits
50000	product as marketed	canned dietary foods for infants, including infant formula, except dehydrated and powdered products	Article 3 table row 13.3 with footnote 16
50000	fresh weight	cured and cooked bovine or swine meats in contact with non-tinplate packaging	Article 3 table row 13.5 with footnote 18
100000	fresh weight	canned beverages, including fruit and vegetable juices	Article 3 table row 13.2
200000	product as placed on market	canned foods other than beverages	Article 3 table row 13.1
200000	fresh weight	cured and cooked bovine or swine meats packaged in tinplate	Article 3 table row 13.4 with footnote 17

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