Sanitation Standards for Contaminants and Toxins in Foods Article 2
Contaminants as referred to these standards shall mean the substance not intentionally added to food, which present in food as a result of production or pollution during the manufacturing, processing, preparing, packaging, transportation, storage, or selling, or as a result of environmental contamination, but do not include insect fragments, hairs and other extraneous foreign matters.Toxins as referred to these standards including the mycotoxins, marine bio-toxins and natural toxins in plant origin.The scope of these standards does not include the residues of pesticides, veterinary drugs and processing aids; the tolerance of atomic dust and radioactivity contamination, polychlorinated biphenyl and dioxins; and the microorganisms and microbial toxins that are within the Sanitation Standards for Microorganisms in Foods.
中文原文 食品中污染物質及毒素衛生標準第2條
本標準所稱之污染物質，係指食品於製造、加工、調配、包裝、運送、貯存、販賣中產生或污染者，或因環境之污染，非有意添加而存在於食品者，但不包括蟲體碎片、毛髮或其他外來異物。
本標準所稱之毒素，包括真菌毒素、海洋生物毒素及植物天然毒素。
本標準之訂定範圍，不包括農藥、動物用藥及加工助劑之殘留，亦不包括食品中之原子塵或放射能污染物、多氯聯苯及戴奧辛之限量及食品中微生物之衛生標準所規範之微生物及其毒素。
本標準所稱之毒素，包括真菌毒素、海洋生物毒素及植物天然毒素。
本標準之訂定範圍，不包括農藥、動物用藥及加工助劑之殘留，亦不包括食品中之原子塵或放射能污染物、多氯聯苯及戴奧辛之限量及食品中微生物之衛生標準所規範之微生物及其毒素。