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Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng said on Aug. 27 that its members have completed their discussion and finalized a standard on the maximum levels of heavy metals allowed to be contained in foodstuff (including infant formula and complementary infant food).
Macau government drafted the standards for the maximum levels of heavy metals referencing the standards used in mainland China and other neighboring jurisdictions. It lists five heavy metals：
Heavy metal contaminants | Examples of food categories | Maximum limits |
arsenic | Poultry meat | Total arsenic 0.5 mg/kg |
Fish oil | Inorganic arsenic 0.1 mg/kg | |
cadmium | Polished rice | 0.2 mg/kg |
lead | Leaf vegetables | 0.3 mg/kg |
mercury | Edible fungus | Total mercury 0.1 mg/kg |
Predacious fish | methyl mercury 1.0 mg/kg | |
tin | Canned beverages | 150 mg/kg |
Leong said that the government was yet to finish drafting food safety standards for preservatives and pesticide residues.
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