The instrument
This page records the heavy-metal maximum levels set by Fiji Food Safety Regulations 2009 chemical-contaminant limits, the instrument of Fiji Food Safety Board, 2009. 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. 29 maximum levels across 6 analytes and 20 product categories, grouped by analyte and ordered by limit.
| Limit µg/kg | Basis | Product scope | Provision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (Pb)11 limits | |||
| 20 | mg/Kg | Infant formula | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 50 | mg/l | Natural mineral water in its packaged state | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 100 | mg/Kg | Named animal fats, named vegetable oils, olive oils and olive pumice oils, and fats spreads and blended spreads | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 200 | mg/Kg | Edible fats and oils | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 200 | mg/Kg | Muscle meat of fish, excluding those listed below | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 400 | mg/Kg | Muscle meat of bonito (sarda sarda), horse mackerel or scad (Trachurus, trachurus), sardine (sardine pilcardus), sardinops (sardinops species), spotted seabass (Dicentrarchus punctatus), tuna (Thunnus species and Euthynnys species) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 500 | mg/Kg | Canned corned beef, canned luncheon treat and sugars | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 500 | mg/Kg | Crustaceans, excluding brown meat of crab | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 500 | mg/Kg | Jam and jelly | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 1000 | mg/Kg | Cephalopods (without viscera) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 2000 | mg/Kg | Salt | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| Total arsenic (tAs)3 limits | |||
| 50 | mg/l | Natural mineral water in its packaged state | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 100 | mg/Kg | Edible fats and oils, named animal fats, named vegetable oils, olive oils and olive pumice oils, and fats spreads and blended spreads | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 500 | mg/Kg | Salt | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| Cadmium (Cd)6 limits | |||
| 5 | mg/l | Natural mineral water in its packaged state | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 50 | mg/Kg | Muscle meat of fish, excluding those listed below | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 100 | mg/Kg | Muscle meat of bonito (Sarda sarda), horse mackerel or scad (Trachurus, trachurus), sardine (Sardina pilcardus), sardinops (Sardinops species), spotted seabass (Dicentrarchus punctatus), tuna (Thunnus species and Euthynnys species) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 500 | mg/Kg | Crustaceans, excluding brown meat of crab and excluding head and thorax meat of lobster and similar large crustaceans (Nephropidae and Palinuridae) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 500 | mg/Kg | Salt | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 1000 | mg/Kg | Cephalopods (without viscera) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| Mercury, total (tHg)4 limits | |||
| 2 | mg/l | Natural mineral water in its packaged state | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 100 | mg/Kg | Salt | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 500 | mg/Kg | All other species of fish other than those described in section (16) above | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 1000 | mg/Kg | Sharks (all species), Tuna (Thunnus spp,), Little tuna (Euthynnus spp,), Bonito (Sarda spp,), Plain bonito (Orcynopsis unicolor), Swordfish (Xiphias gladius), Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus), Marlin (Makaira spp,), Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), Portuguese dogfish (Centroscymnes coetolepis), Rays, (Raja spp,), Anglerfish (Lophius spp,), Emperor or Orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), Bonito (Sarda Sarda), Grenadier (Coryphaenoides rupestris), Plain bonito (Orcynopsis unicolor), Snake mackerel or Butterfish (Lepidocybium Havobrunneum, Ruvettus pretiosus, Gempylus serpens) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| Tin (Sn)4 limits | |||
| 50000 | mg/Kg | Canned corned beef and canned luncheon meat (containers other than tinplate) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 50000 | mg/Kg | Canned jam and jelly (containers other than tinplate) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 200000 | mg/Kg | Canned corned beef and canned luncheon meat (tinplate containers) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| 200000 | mg/Kg | Canned jam and jelly (tinplate containers) | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
| Total chromium (Cr)1 limit | |||
| 100 | mg/l | Natural mineral water in its packaged state | Food Safety Regulations 2009 |
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.
A limit recorded above binds nothing today only because another government holds a stricter value for every published cell. It 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.
A reference page is a record of law, not an HMTc threshold. It states what a government requires; the standard page states what the program requires, and names which instrument binds each cell.