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AFLATOXINS
Aflatoxin B1 Total Aflatoxins
Country
(µg/kg) (µg/kg)

Food Category Max Limits Food Category Max Limits

Brunei
0 0
Darussalam7
Not Not
Cambodia
Available Available

Nuts, maize, spices Nuts, maize, spices 15

15

Maize 15 Maize 15

Indonesia1

Spices 15

Food 20

Not Not
Laos Available Available

Cereal-based food for infants 0.1

Food 35
and children
(calculated as dry matter basis)

Groundnuts 15

Other food 5

Malaysia2 Groundnuts,
almonds, hazelnuts
and pistachios for 15
further processing

Brazil nut, shelled,

for further
10
processing

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Groundnuts,
almonds, hazelnuts
10
and pistachios
ready-to-eat
Brazil nut, shelled,
10
ready-to-eat

Others 5

Not Not
Myanmar Available Available
Herbal Food Products Ready-to-
drink 10 Processed Pili Nut 10
Food Supplements

Nuts for further

processing 15

Ready to eat tree

nuts 10

Corn based Snack

foods 20

Shelled Corn (Food

20
Grade)
Philippines6
Corn Grits 20

Shelled Corn (Feed

50
Grade)

Herbal Food
Products Ready-to-
drink
Food Supplements

Total Aflatoxin 20

Dry base mixes for

soups and bases 10
containing peanut
All foods except
All foods except food for infants
Singapore 5 food for infants or 5
or young children
young children

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Food for Infants or young 0.1

children
Food 20
Not
Thailand3 Class I, II and III of
Available 15, 20, 50
corn kernel
Peanuts and other kinds of
oil seeds used as raw
1.1 materials or need to be 8 Refer to 1.1 15
processed before using as
food or as food ingredients.
Almonds, pistachio, dried
apricots used as raw
1.2 materials or need to be 12 Refer to 1.2 15
processed before using as
food or as food ingredients.
Chestnuts, brazil nuts used
as raw materials or need to
1.3 be processed before using 8 Refer to 1.3 15
as food or as food
ingredients.
Tree nuts used as raw
materials, excluding the
products specified in 1.2;
1.4 5 Refer to 1.4 10
1.3; or need to be
Vietnam4 processed before using as
food or as food ingredients
Peanuts and other oil
seeds for eating and their
derived products
1.5 2 Refer to 1.5 4
Except for: crude
vegetable oil for refinery
and refined vegetable oil
Almonds, pistachio, dried
1.6 apricots used as food or as 8 Refer to 1.6 10
food ingredients.
Chestnuts and brazil nuts
1.7 used as food or as food 5 Refer to 1.7 10
ingredients.
Tree nuts used as food,
excluding the products
1.8 specified in 1.6, 1.7 or 2 Refer to 1.8 4
products used as food
ingredients
Material dried fruits that
1.9 5 Refer to 1.9 10
need to be processed

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before using as food or as
food ingredients.
Dried fruits and derived
2.0 products used as food or 2 Refer to 2.0 4
as food ingredients
Cereal and derived
products including
processed products
2.1 2 Refer to 2.1 4
(except for the products
specified in 1.12; 1.15;
1.17)
Corn and rice that need to
be processed before using
2.2 5 Refer to 2.2 10
as food or as food
ingredients.
Material milk, thermo-
2.3 processed milk, milk for 5 Refer to 2.3 Unspecified
producing dairy
Spices:
- Chili: all kinds of chilies,
chili sauce, chili powder,
paprika, hot chilies.
2.4 0.1 Refer to 2.4 10
- Pepper, including both
black and white pepper
- Nutmeg
- Ginger and turmeric
Food derived from cereal
2.5 for newborn babies and 0.1 Refer to 2.5 Unspecified
small children
Milk powder for children and
2.6 Unspecified Refer to 2.6 Unspecified
milk for newborn babies
Diet food especially for
2.7 0.1 Refer to 2.7 Unspecified
newborn babies

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AFLATOXIN M1

Aflatoxin M1
Country (µg/kg)

Food Category Max Limits

Brunei Darussalam7
0

Cambodia Not Available

Indonesia1 Liquid milk, cheese, whey and the likes 0.5

Milk powder
5

Laos Not Available

Milk 0.5

Malaysia2 Infant formula and follow-up formula 0.025

(ready-to-drink)#
“#” indicates products marketed as such or after
reconstitution as instructed on the label of the package.

Myanmar Not Available

Philippines Milk 0.5

Milk 0.5

0.025
Singapore calculated on
the
Infant formula
reconstituted
ready-to-
drink product

Thailand3 Not Available

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Material milk, thermo-processed milk, milk for producing 0.5
dairy
Milk powder for children and milk for newborn babies 0.025
Vietnam4

Diet food especially for newborn babies 0.025

References:

1. National Quality Control Laboratory of Drug and Food (NQCLDF), National Agency of Drug
and Food Control (NADFC), Republic of Indonesia.

2. Bureau of Quality and Safety of Food (BQSF) Department of Medical Sciences , Ministry of
Public Health, Thailand.

3. QCVN 8-1:2011/BYT National Technical Regulation On The Safety Limits Of Mycotoxin

Contamination In Food, Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, National Institute
for Food Control, 13 Phan Huy Chu, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam, www.nifc.gov.vn

4. Table II, Mycological Contaminant, Page 36, [Subs. PU (A) 435/10], Food Safety and
Quality Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia (website address: fsq.moh.gov.my); Food
Section, Public Health Laboratory of Johore Bahru, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

5. Philippines Food and Drug Administration.

6. Food Safety and Quality Control Division, Environmental Health Services, Department of
Health Services, Ministry of Health, Brunei Darussalam.

7. Sale of Food Act (Chapter 283, Section 56(1)), Food Regulations, Singapore.

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