Residues

2.3
2.3.1: Restriction on the use of insecticides.

1) Subject to the Provisions of regulation 2.3.1 (2), no insecticides shall be used directly on articles of food Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to the fumigants which are registered and recommended for use as such on articles of food by the Registration Committee, constituted under section 5 of the Insecticides Act, 1968 (46 of 1968).

2) The amount of insecticide mentioned in Column 2 on the foods mentioned in column 3, shall not exceed the tolerance limit prescribed in column 4 of the Table given below :

Sl.No.	Name of Insecticides	Food	Tolerance limit mg/kg.ppm)
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
1.	Aldrin, dieldrin (the limits apply to aldrin and dieldrin singly or in any combination and are expressed as dieldrin)	Foodgrains	0.01
		Milled Foodgrains	Nil
		Milk and Milk products	0.15 (on a fat basis)
		Fruits and Vegetables	0.1
		Meat	0.2
		Eggs	0.1 (on a shell free basis)
2.	Carbaryl	Fish	0.2
		Foodgrains	1.5
		Milled food grains	Nil
		Okra and leafy vegetables	10.0
		Potatoes	0.2
		Other vegetables	5.0
		Cottonseed (whole)	1.0
		Maize cob (kernels)	1.0
		Rice	2.50
		Maize	0.50
		Chillies	5.00
3.	Chlordane (residue to be measured as cis plus trans chlordane)	Food grains	0.02
		Milled food grains	Nil
		Milk and milk products	0.05 (on a fat basis)
		Vegetables	0.2
		Fruits	0.1
		Sugar beet	0.3
4.	D.D.T. (The limits apply to D.D.T., D.D.D. and D.D.E. singly or in any combination)	Milk and milk products	1.25 (on a fat basis)
		Fruits and vegetables including potato	3.5
		Meat, poultry and fish	7.0 (on a whole product basis)
		Eggs	0.5 (on a shell free basis)
5.	D.D.T. (singly)	Carbonated Water	0.001
6.	D.D.D. (singly)	Carbonated Water	0.001
7.	D.D.E. (singly)	Carbonated Water	0.001
8.	Diazinon	Foodgrains	0.05
		Milled foodgrains	Nil
		Vegetables	0.5
9.	Dichlorvos (content of di- chloroacetaldehyde	Foodgrains	1.0
	(D.C.A.) be reported where possible)	Milled foodgrains	0.25
		Vegetables	0.15
		Fruits	0.1
10.	Dicofol	Fruits and Vegetables	5.0
		Tea (dry manufactured)	5.0
		Chillies	1.0
11.	Dimethoate (residue to be determined as	Fruits and Vegetables	2.0
	dimethoate and expressed as dimethoate)	Chillies	0.5
12.	Endosulfan (residues are measured and reported	Fruits and Vegetables	2.0
	as total of endosulfan A and B and	Cottonseed	0.5
	endosulfan-sulphate)	Cottonseed oil (crude)	0.2
		Bengal gram	0.20
		Pigeon Pea	0.10
		Fish	0.20
		Chillies	1.0
		Cardamom	1.0
13.	Endosulfan A	Carbonated Water	0.001
14.	Endosulfan B	Carbonated Water	0.001
15.	Endosulfan-Sulphate	Carbonated Water	0.001
16.	Fenitrothion	Foodgrains	0.02
		Milled foodgrains	0.005
		Milk and Milk Products	0.05 (on a fat basis)
		Fruits	0.5
		Vegetables	0.3
		Meat	0.03
17.	Heptachlor (combined residues of heptachlor	Foodgrains	0.01
	and its epoxide to be determined and expressed as Heptachlor)	Milled foodgrains Milk and Milk Products	0.002 0.15(on a Fat basis)
		Vegetables	0.05
18.	Hydrogen cyanide	Foodgrains	37.5
		Milled foodgrains	3.0
19.	Hydrogen Phosphide	Foodgrains	Nil
		Milled foodgrains	Nil
20.	Inorganic bromide (determined and expressed as total bromide from all sources)	Foodgrains	25.0
		Milled Foodgrains	25.0
		Fruits	30.0
		Dried fruits	30.0
		Spices	400.00
21.	Hexachlorocycle hexane and its Isomers
	(a) Alfa (a) Isomer:	Rice grain unpolished	0.10
		Rice grain polished	0.05
		Milk (whole)	0.02
		Fruits and vegetable	1.00
		Fish	0.25
		Carbonated Water	0.001
	(b) Beta (b) Isomer :	Rice grain Unpolished	0.10
		Rice grain polished	0.05
		Milk (whole)	0.02
		Fruits and vegetable	1.00
		Fish	0.25
		Carbonated Water	0.001
	(c) Gamma (g) Isomer (Known as Lindane)	Food grains except rice	0.10
		Milled foodgrains	Nil
		Rice grain Unpolished	0.10
		Rice grain polished	0.05
		Milk	0.01 (onwhole basis)
		Milk products	0.20
		Milk products (having less than 2 per cent fat)	0.20 (on whole basis)
		Fruits and vegetable	1.00
		Fish	0.25
		Eggs	0.10 (On shell free basis)
		Meat and poultry	2.00 (On Whole basis)
		Carbonated Water	0.001
	(d) Delta (d) Isomer :	Rice grain Unpolished	0.10
		Rice grain Polished	0.05
		Milk (whole)	0.02
		Fruits & vegetables	1.00
		Fish	0.25
		Carbonated Water	0.001
22.	Malathion (Malathion to be determined and	Foodgrains	4.0
	expressed as combined residues of malathion	Milled foodgrains	1.0
	and malaoxon)	Fruits	4.0
		Vegetables	3.0
		Dried fruits	8.0
		Carbonated Water	0.001
23.	Parathion (Combined residues of parathion and paraoxon to be determined and expressed as parathion)	Fruits and Vegetables	0.5
24.	Parathion methyl (combined residues of parathion	Fruits	0.2
	methyl and its oxygen analogue to be determined and expressed asparathion methyl)	Vegetables	1.0
25.	Phosphamidon residues (expressed as the sum of phosphamidon and its desethyl derivative)	Foodgrains Milled foodgrains	0.05 Nil
		Fruits and Vegetables	0.2
26.	Pyrethrins (sum of pyrethrins I & II and other structurally related insecticide Ingredients of pyrethrum)	Foodgrains Milled foodgrains Fruits and Vegetables	Nil Nil 1.0
27.	Chlorienvinphos	Foodgrains	0.025
		Milled Foodgrains	0.006
	(Residues to be measured as alpha and beta	Milk and Milk Products	0. 2 (fat basis)
	isomers ofChlorienvinphos	Meat and Poultry	0.2 (carcass fat)
		Vegetables	0.05
		Groundnuts	0.05 (shell free basis)
		Cotton seed	0.05
28.	Chlorobenzilate	Fruits	1.0
		Dry Fruits, Almonds and Walnuts	0.2 (shell free basis)
29.	Chlorpyrifos	Foodgrains	0.05
		Milled foodgrains	0.01
		Fruits	0.5
		Potatoes and Onions	0.01
		Cauli Flower and Cabbage	0.01
		Other vegetables	0.2
		Meat and Poultry	0.1 (carcass fat)
		Milk and Milk Products	0.01(fat basis)
		Cotton seed	0.05
		Cottonseed oil (crude)	0.025
		Carbonated Water	0.001
30.	2,4D	Foodgrains	0.01
		Milled foodgrains	0.003
		Potatoes	0.2
		*Milk and Milk Products	0.05
		*Meat and Poultry	0.05
		Eggs	0.05 (shell free basis)
		Fruits	2.0
31.	Ethion (Residues to bedetermined as ethion	Tea (dry manufactured)	5.0
	andIts oxygen analogueand expressed as ethion)	Cucumber and Squash	0.5
		Other Vegetables	1.0
		Cotton seed	0.5
		*Milk and Milk Products	0.5 (fat basis)
		*Meat and Poultry	0.2 (carcass Fat basis)
		Eggs	0.2 (shell free basis)
		Food grains	0.025
		Milled food grains	0.006
		Peaches	1.0
		Other fruits	2.0
		Dry fruits	0.1 (shell free basis)
32.	Formothion	Citrus fruits	0.2
	(Determined as dinethoate and	Other fruits	1.0
	its oxygen Analogue and expressed as dimethoate	Vegetable	2.0
	except incase of citrus fruits where it is to be determined as formothion)	Peppers and Tomatoes	1.0
33.	Monocrotophos	Food grains	0.025
		Milled Food grains	0.006
		Citrus fruits	0.2
		Other fruits	1.0
		Carrot, Turnip, Potatoes
		and Sugar beet	0.05
		Onion and Peas	0.1
		Other Vegetables	0.2
		Cottonseed	0.1
		Cottonseed oil (raw)	0.05
		*Meat and Poultry	0.02
		*Milk and Milk Products	0.02
		Eggs	0.02 (shell free basis)
		Coffee (Raw beans)	0.1
		Chillies	0.2
		Cardamom	0.5
34.	Paraquat Dichloride (Determined as	Food grains	0.1
	Paraquat cations)	Milled food grains	0.025
		Potato	0.2
		Other vegetables	0.05
		Cotton seed	0.2
		Cottonseed oil (edible refined)	0.05
		*Milk (whole)	0.01
		Fruits	0.05
35.	Phosalone	Pears	2.0
		Citrus fruits	1.0
		Other fruits	5.0
		Potatoes	0.1
		Other vegetables	1.0
		Rapeseed/Mustard Oil (crude)	0.05
36.	Trichlorfon	Foodgrains	0.05
		Milled foodgrains	0.0125
		Sugar beet	0.05
		Fruits and Vegetables	0.1
		Oil seeds	0.1
		Edible Oil (refined)	0.05
		*Meat and Poultry	0.1
		*Milk (whole)	0.05
37.	Thiometon	Food grains	0.025
	(Residues determined as	Milled food grains	0.006
	thiometon its sulfoxide	Fruits	0.5
	and sulphone expressed	Potato,  Carrots and Sugar beets	0.05
	as thiometon)	Other vegetables	0.5
38.	Acephate	Safflower seed	2.0
		Cotton Seed	2.0
39.	Methamido-phos	Safflower seed	0.1
	(A metabolite of Acephate)	Cotton seed	0.1
40.	Aldicarb (sum of Aldicarb its sulphoxideand	Potato	0.5
	sulphone, expressedas Aldicarb)	Chewing Tobacco	0.1
41.	Atrazine	Maize	Nil
		Sugarcane	0.25
42.	Carbendazim	Food grains	0.50
		Milled food grains	0.12
		Vegetables	0.50
		Mango	2.00
		Banana (whole)	1.00
		Other fruits	5.00
		Cotton seed	0.10
		Groundnut	0.10
		Sugar beet	0.10
		Dry fruits	0.10
		Eggs	0.10 (shell free basis)
		Meat & Poultry	0.10 (Carcass fat basis)
		Milk & Milk Products	0.10 (fat basis)
43.	Benomyl	Food grains	0.50
		Milled food grains	0.12
		Vegetables	0.50
		Mango	2.00
		Banana (whole)	1.00
		Other fruits	5.00
		Cotton seed	0.10
		Groundnut	0.10
		Sugar beet	0.10
		Dry fruits	0.10
		Eggs	0.10 (shell free basis)
		Meat & Poultry	0.10 (carcass fat basis)
		Milk & Milk Products	0.10 (fat basis)
44.	Captan	Fruit & Vegetables	15.00
45.	Carbofuran (sum of	Food grains	0.10
	carbofuran and	Milled food grains	0.03
	3-hydroxy carbofuran	Fruit & Vegetables	0.10
	expressed as carbofuran)	Oil seeds	0.10
		Sugarcane	0.10
		Meat & Poultry	0.10 (carcass fat basis)
		Milk &Milk Products	0.05 (fat basis)
46.	Copper Oxychloride	Fruit	20.00
	(determined as copper)	Potato	1.00
		Other vegetables	20.00
47.	Cypermethrin (sum of isomers) (fat soluble residue)	Wheat grains	0.05
		Milled wheat grains	0.01
		Brinjal	0.20
		Cabbage	2.00
		Bhindi	0.20
		Oil seeds except groundnut	0.20
		Meat and Poultry	0.20 (carcass fat basis
		Milk and Milk Products	0.01 (fat basis)
48.	Decamethrin / Deltamethrin	Cotton Seed	0.10
		Food grains	0.50
		Milled Foodgrains	0.20
		Rice	0.05
49.	Edifenphos	Rice	0.02
		Rice bran	1.00
		Eggs	0.01(shell free basis)
		Meat and poultry	0.02 (carcass fat basis)
		Milk and Milk products	0.01( fat basis)
50.	Fenthion (sum of fenthion, its oxygen	Food grains	0.10
	analogue and their sulphoxides and sulphones	Milled food grains	0.03
	expressed as fenthion)	Onion	0.10
		Potatoes	0.05
		Beans	0.10
		Peas	0.50
		Tomatoes	0.50
		Other vegetables	1.00
		Musk melon	2.00
		Meat and Poultry	2.00 (carcasss fat basis)
		Milk and Milk products	0.05 (fat basis)
51.	Fenvalerate (fat soluble residue)	Cauliflower	2.00
		Brinjal	2.00
		Okra	2.00
		Cotton Seed	0.20
		Cotton seed oil	0.10
		Meat and Poultry	1.00 (carcass fat basis)
		Milk and Milk Product	0.01 (fat basis)
52.	Dithiocarbamates (the residue tolerance limit are	Food Grains	0.20
	determined and expressed as mg/CS2/kg and refer	Milled food grains	0.05
	separately to the residues arising from any or each group of dithiocarbamates	Potatoes	0.10
	(a) Dimethyl dithiocarbamates residue resulting from the use of ferbam or ziram, and	Tomatoes	3.00
	(b) Ethylene bis- dithiocarbamates resulting from	Cherries	1.00
	the use of mancozeb, maneb or zineb (including zineb derived from nabam plus zinc sulphate)	Other fruits	3.00
	(c) Mancozeb	Chillies	1.0
53.	Phenthoate	Foodgrains	0.05
		Milled foodgrains	0.01
		Oilseeds	0.03
		Edible oils	0.01
		Eggs	0.05 (shell free basis)
		Meat & Poultry	0.05 (carcass fat basis)
		Milk & Milk products	0.01 (fat basis)
54.	Phorate (sum ofPhorate, its oxygenanalogue	Foodgrains	0.05
	and theirsulphoxides and sulphones,expressed	Milled foodgrains	0.01
	as phorate)	Tomatoes	0.10
		Other vegetables	0.05
		Fruits	0.05
		Oil seeds	0.05
		Edible oils	0.03
		Sugarcane	0.05
		Eggs	0.05 (shell free basis)
		Meat & Poultry	0.05 (carcass fat basis)
		Milk & Milk Products	0.05 (fat basis)
55.	Simazine	Maize	Nil
		Sugarcane	0.25
56.	Pirimiphos-methyl	Rice	0.50
		Food grains except Rice	5.00
		Milled food grains except rice	1.00
		Eggs	0.05 (shell free basis)
		Meat & Poultry	0.05 (carcass fat basis)
		Milk & Milk Products	0.05 (fat basis)
57.	Alachlor	Cotton Seed	0.05
		Groundnut	0.05
		Maize	0.10
		Soyabeans	0.10
58.	Alfa Nephthyl AceticAcid (A.N.A.)	Pine-Apple	0.50
59.	Bitertanol	Wheat	0.05
		Groundnut	0.10
60.	Captafol	Tomato	5.00
61.	Cartaphydrochloride	Rice	0.50
62.	Chlormequatchloride	Grape	1.00
		Cotton Seed	1.00
63.	Chlorothalonil	Groundnut	0.10
		Potato	0.10
64.	Diflubenzuron	Cotton Seed	0.20
65.	Dodine	Apple	5.00
66.	Diuron	Cotton Seed	1.00
		Banana	0.10
		Maize	0.50
		Citrus	1.00
		(Sweet Orange)
		Grapes	1.00
67.	Ethephon	Pine Apple	2.00
		Coffee	0.10
		Tomato	2.00
		Mango	2.00
68.	Fluchloralin	Cotton Seed	0.05
		Soya Beans	0.05
69.	Malic Hydrazide	Onion	15.00
		Potato	50.00
70.	Metalyxyl	Bajra	0.05
		Maize	0.05
		Sorghum	0.05
71.	Methomyl	Cotton Seed	0.10
72.	Methyl Chloro-phenoxy-acetic Acid(M.C.P.A.)	Rice	0.05
		Wheat	0.05
73.	Oxadiazon	Rice	0.03
74.	Oxydemeton methyl	Food-grains	0.02
75.	Permethrin	Cucumber	0.50
		Cotton Seed	0.50
		Soya Beans	0.05
		Sunflower Seed	1.00
76.	Quinolphos	Rice	0.01
		Pigeon pea	0.01
		Cardamom	0.01
		Tea	0.01
		Fish	0.01
		Chillies	0.2
77.	Thiophenatemethyl	Apple	5.00
		Papaya	7.00
78.	Triazophos	Chillies	0.2
		Rice	0.05
		Cotton seed oil	0.1
		Soyabean oil	0.05
79.	Profenofos	Cotton seed oil	0.05
80.	Fenpropathrin	Cotton seed oil	0.05
81.	Fenarimol	Apple	5.0
82.	Hexaconazole	Apple	0.1
83.	Iprodione	Rape seed	0.5
		Mustard seed	0.5
		Rice	10.0
		Tomato	5.0
		Grapes	10.0
84.	Tridemorph	Wheat	0.1
		Grapes	0.5
		Mango	0.05
85.	Penconazole	Grapes	0.2
86.	Propiconazole	Wheat	0.05
87.	Myclobutanil	Groundnut seed	0.1
		Grapes	1.0
88.	Sulfosulfuron	Wheat	0.02
89.	Trifluralin	Wheat	0.05
90.	Ethoxysulfuron	Rice	0.01
91.	Metolachlor	Soyabean Oil	0.05
92.	Glyphosphate	Tea	1.0
93.	Linuron	Pea	0.05
94.	Oxyfluorfen	Rice	0.05
		Groundnut Oil	0.05
95.	Carbosulfan	Rice	0.2
96.	Tricyclazole	Rice	0.02
97.	Imidacloprid	Cotton seed Oil	0.05
		Rice	0.05
98.	Butachlor	Rice	0.05
99.	Chlorimuron-ethyl	Wheat	0.05
100.	Diclofop-methyl	Wheat	0.1
101.	Metribuzin	Soyabean Oil	0.1
102.	Lambdacyhalothrin	Cotton seed Oil	0.05
103.	Fenazaquin	Tea	3.0
104.	Pendimethalin	Wheat	0.05
		Rice	0.05
		Soyabean Oil	0.05
		Cotton seed Oil	0.05
105.	Pretilachlor	Rice	0.05
106.	Fluvalinate	Cotton seed Oil	0.05
107.	Metasulfuron-methyl	Wheat	0.1
108.	Methabenzthiazuron	Wheat	0.5
109.	Imazethapyr	Soyabean oil	0.1
		Groundnut oil	0.1
110.	Cyhalofop-butyl	Rice	0.5
111.	Triallate	Wheat	0.05
112.	Spinosad	Cotton seed oil	0.02
		Cabbage	0.02
		Cauliflower	0.02
113.	Thiamethoxam	Rice	0.02
114.	Fenobucarb	Rice	0.01
115.	Thiodicarb	Cotton seed oil	0.02
116.	Anilophos	Rice	0.1
117.	Fenoxy-prop-p-ethyl	Wheat	0.02
		Soyabean seed	0.02
118.	Glufosinate-ammonium	Tea	0.01
119.	Clodinafop-propanyl	Wheat	0.1
120.	Dithianon	Apple	0.1
121.	Kitazin	Rice	0.2
122.	Isoprothiolane	Rice	0.1
123.	Acetamiprid	Cotton seed oil	0.1
124.	Cymoxanil	Grapes	0.1
125.	Triadimefon	Wheat	0.5
		Pea	0.1
		Grapes	2.0
126.	Fosetyl-A1	Grapes	10
		Cardamom	0.2
127.	Isoproturon	Wheat	0.1
128.	Propargite	Tea	10.0
129.	Difenoconazole	Apple	0.01
130.	b-Cyfluthrin	Cotton seed	0.02
131.	Ethofenprox	Rice	0.01
132.	Bifenthrin	Cotton seed	0.05
133.	Benfuracarb	Red Gram	0.05
		Rice	0.05
134.	Quizalofop-ethyl	Soyabean seed	0.05
135.	Flufenacet	Rice	0.05
136.	Buprofezin	Rice	0.05
137.	Dimethomorph	Grapes	0.05
		Potatoes	0.05
138.	Chlorfenopyr	Cabbage	0.05
139.	Indoxacarb	Cotton seed	0.1
		Cottonseed oil	0.1
		Cabbage	0.1
140.	Metiram	Tomato	5.0
		Ground nut seed	0.1
		Ground nut seed oil	0.1
141.	Lufenuron	Cabbage	0.3
142.	Carpropamid	Rice	1.0
143.	Novaluron	Cottonseed	0.01
		Cottonseed oil	0.01
		Tomato	0.01
		Cabbage	0.01
144.	Oxadiargyl	Rice	0.1
145.	Pyrazosulfuron ethyl	Rice	0.01
146.	Clomazone	Rice	0.01
		Soyabean seed	0.01
		Soyabean seed oil	0.01
147.	Tebuconazole	Wheat	0.05
148.	Propineb	Apple	1.0
		Pomegranate	0.5
		Potato	0.5
		Green Chillies	2.0
		Grapes	0.5
149.	Thiochlorprid	Cotton seed	0.05
		Cotton seed oil	0.05
		Rice	0.01

ppm - parts per million

*:Soluble in water, hence not necessary to mention on fat basis

Explanation :— For the purpose of this regulation :

(a) the expression “insecticide” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Insecticide Act, 1968 (46 of 1968);

(b) unless otherwise stated :

(i) maximum levels are expressed in mg./kg. on a whole product basis.

(ii) all foods refer to raw agricultural products moving in commerce.

2.3.2: ANTIBIOTIC AND OTHER PHARMA-COLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES

1) The amount of antibiotic mentioned in column (2), on the sea foods including shrimps, prawns or any other variety of fish and fishery products, shall not exceed the tolerance limit prescribed in column (3) of the table given below:—

Sl.No.	Name of Antibiotics	Tolerance limit mg/kg (ppm)
1.	Tetracycline	0.1
2.	Oxytetracycline	0.1
3.	Trimethoprim	0.05
4.	Oxolinic acid	0.3

ppm - parts per million

2) The use of any of the following antibiotics and other Pharmacologically Active Substances shall be prohibited in any unit processing sea foods including shrimps, prawns or any other variety of fish and fishery products —

(i) All Nitrofurans including
(ii) Furaltadone
(iii) Furazolidone
(iv) Furylfuramide
(v) Nifuratel
(vi) Nifuroxime
(vii) Nifurprazine
(viii) Nitrofurnatoin
(ix) Nitrofurazone
(x) Chloramphenicol
(xi) Neomycin
(xii) Nalidixic acid
(xiii) Sulphamethoxazole
(xiv) Aristolochia spp and preparations thereof
(xv) Chloroform
(xvi) Chloropromazine
(xvii) Cholchicine (xviii) Dapsone
(xix) Dimetridazole
(xx) Metronidazole
(xxi) Ronidazole
(xxii) Ipronidazole
(xxiii) Other nitromidazoles
(xxiv) Clenbuterol
(xxv) Diethylstibestrol (DES)
(xxvi) Sulfanoamide drugs (except approved Sulfadimethoxine, Sulfabromomethazine and Sulfaethoxypyridazine)
(xxvii) Fluoroquinolones
(xxviii) Glycopeptides