Annex 1 
 
1 
 Draft Amendment of Regulation 41- Pesticide Residue 
 
41. Pesticide residue. 
(1) For the purposes of these Regulat ions, the term "pesticide" includes- 
(a) any preparation used, or capable or purporting to be capable of being used, for preventing the attack of, or for destroying- 
(i) fungi or other parasitic plants or bacteria that affect or attack plants, fruits, grains, animals or property; 
(ii) insects or other pests that affect or attack plans, fruits, animals, or property; 
(iii) noxious animals or noxious birds; or (iv) weeds or other noxious plants; and  
(b) any substance purporting to be pesticide.  
(2) No person shall expose, cause or permit to be exposed, any food, excluding water, 
in the course of its preparation, storage, packaging, delivery, importation or exposure for sale, to any pesticide, where such exposure will result in a residue on or in food that is greater than the amount as set out in Table I and Table II of the  Sixteenth Schedule. 
 
(3) No person shall import, prepare for sale or sell any food – 
(a) containing pesticide residue in a proportion greater than the proportion specified for that food in relation to that pesticide residue as set out in Table I and Table II of 
the Sixteenth Schedule; 
 
(b) containing pesticide residue in a proportion greater than the proportion specified 
for that food in relation to that pesticide residue as recommended in the Codex 
Alimentarius, where the pesticide is not specified in Table I of the  Sixteenth 
Schedule; 
 
(ba) containing pesticide residue in a proportion greater than the proportion 
specified for that food in relation to that pesticide residue as recommended in 
the ASEAN Harmonized Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs), where the 
pesticide is not specified in Table I of the Sixteenth Schedule or Codex 
Alimentarius; or 
 
(c) containing 0.01 miligram per kilogram (mg/kg) or  more than 0.01 mg/kg of 
any pesticide residue, where the pesticide is not specified for that food in Table I 
and Table II of the  Sixteenth Schedule or , Codex Alimentarius or ASEAN 
Harmonized MRLs.  
 
(3A) For the purpose of subregulation (3), “Codex Alimentarius” means the international 
food standards adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission in respect of pesticide 
residue. and “ASEAN Harmonized MRLs” means the ASEAN MRLs adopted by the 
ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry.  
 
(3B) Subregulation (3)(b) and 3(ba) shall not apply for those pesticides as set out 
in Table II and Table III of the Sixteenth Schedule. 
 
 
(4) [Repealed by P.U.(A) 160/04]. 
 
[Am. P.U.(A) 123/95, 160/04]
 
 
 Annex 1 
 
2 
  
SIXTEENTH SCHEDULE 
(Regulation 41) 
 
PESTICIDE RESIDUE 
 
TABLE I 
 
MAXIMUM PERMITTED PROPORTION OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD  
 
The food specified in column (2) of the table below shall not contain the pesticide specified in 
relation thereto in column (1) in proportion greater than the maximum permitted proportion 
specified in column (3) thereof in relation to the food. 
NOTE “Not prescribed” means the Maximum Residue Limits are not required. 
(1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
2,4-D Rice (milled or polished) 
Coconut/coconut oil 
Palm oil Banana Sugarcane  0.05 
0.05 
0.05 
0.1 
3 
Abamectin Kale 
Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage 
Mustards  0.05 
0.05 
0.05 
0.05 
Acephate 
[to be deleted in 
Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be inserted in the Table II of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (Restricted 
pesticide)] Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans 
Citrus fruits 
Cauliflower 
Celery 
Kale 
Coconut/coconut oil 
Cabbage 
Mango 
Palm oil 
Lettuce 
Mustards 
Tomato 
Potato 
 0.1 
0.2 
1 
2 
5 
5 
0.5 
2 
1 
0.5 
5 
5 
1 
0.5 
Acetamiprid Okra 
Long beans 
Cabbage 
Brinjal Cucumber  2 
2 
2 
2 2 
Alachlor 
[to be deleted in Maize 
Soya bean 0.1 
0.2 Annex 1 
 
3 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be 
inserted in the Table 
III of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (banned 
pesticide)] Groundnuts 0.05 
Ametryn Cocoa beans 
Coffee beans 
Citrus fruits 
Coconut/coconut oil Palm oil Pineapple Banana 
Sugarcane 
Tea  0.2 
0.2 
0.1 
0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 
0.1 
0.2 
Amitraz 
(sum of amitraz calculated 
as N-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)-
N methyl formamidine and N’ –methyl-formamidine Papaya 
Citrus fruits Chilli Meat (sheep) 
Meat (cattle, pig) 
Durian Edible offal (cattle, sheep, pig) French beans Mango Legume vegetables 
(except as otherwise listed) 
Brinjal  0.5 
0.5 0.2 0.1 
0.05 
0.5 0.2 
1 
0.5 
1 
 
0.5 
Anilofos Rice (milled or polished) 
 0.1 
Atrazine Maize 
Pineapple Sugarcane 0.2 
0.2 0.1 
Azadirachtin   Not prescribed 
Azoxystrobin Chilli 
Cucumber 
Tomato 
 1 
0.5 
1 
Bacillus thuringiensis 
  Not prescribed 
Bendiocarb 
(commodities of plant 
origin: unconjugated 
bendiocarb)
 Chilli 
Kale Cabbage Chinese cabbage Mustards 
Legume vegetables 
Watermelon Brinjal Cucumber  0.2 
0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 
0.2 
0.2 0.2 0.2 
Benomyl See carbendazim  Annex 1 
 
4 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
(expressed as 
carbendazim) 
Bensulfuron-methyl Rice (milled or polished) 0.02 
 
Bentazone Rice (milled or polished) 
Maize Soya bean Groundnuts  0.1 
0.2 
0.05 0.05 
Bispyribac sodium  Rice (milled or polished) 0.05 
Bitertanol Banana 
 0.5 
Bordeaux mixture  
 Not prescribed 
BPMC Rice (milled or polished) 0.2 
 
Bromacil Pineapple 
 0.1 
Bromopropylate Chilli 
Brinjal 
 1 
1 
Buprofezin Rice (milled or polished) 0.2 
 
Butocarboxim Cocoa beans 
Chilli Long beans Palm oil Tomato  0.5 
2 2 2 2 
Cadusafos Banana 
Sugarcane 
 0.01 
0.01 
Captan Coffee beans 
Groundnuts Palm oil Banana Strawberries Tea 
Tomato 
 10 
10 10 15 20 10 
15 
Carbaryl Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) Poultry meat Soya bean Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage 
Pumpkins Pepper (black, white) Mango Mustards 
Brassica vegetables (except as otherwise 
listed)  10 
1 
0.5 
1 5 
5 
3 5 5 
10 
5 
 Annex 1 
 
5 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Legume vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Brinjal 
Cucumber 
 5 
 
5 
3 
Carbendazim Onion (bulb) 
Rice (milled or polished) Papaya Coffee beans Citrus fruits 
Chilli 
Guava Sweet pea Groundnuts Kale 
Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage Pepper (black, white) Mango Banana Celery 
Lettuce 
Mustards Legume vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Watermelon 
Cucumber 
Tomato  2 
0.5 
3 
0.1 
10 
5 
3 2 
0.1 
5 
2 
5 
0.1 
2 1 2 
5 
5 2 
 
2 
0.5 
5 
Carbofuran (
sum of carbofuran and 
3-hydroxy-carbofuran 
expressed as 
carbofuran ) Rice (milled or polished) 
Maize Pepper (black, white) Mango 
Banana 
Sugarcane Brinjal  0.2 
0.1 0.1 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 
Carbosulfan Rice (milled or polished) 
Chilli Long beans Watermelon 
Brinjal 
Cucumber  0.2 
0.5 0.5 0.5 
0.5 
0.5 
Cartap 
(expressed as free 
base) Rice (milled or polished) 
Cabbage Chinese cabbage Lettuce 
Mustards 0.1 
0.2 
2 2 
2 
 
Chinomethionat Chilli 
Brinjal  0.5 
0.5 Annex 1 
 
6 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Chlorfenapyr Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage Brinjal 
Cucumber 
 1 
1 1 
1 
Chlorfluazuron Okra 
Chilli Long beans Kale Radish 
Lettuce 
Mustards Brinjal  0.3 
0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 
0.3 
0.3 0.3 
Chlorimuron ethyl Rice (milled or polished) 0.02 
 
Chlorothalonil Onion (bulb) 
Cocoa beans Coffee beans 
Chilli 
Spring onion leaves Ginger Groundnuts Cabbage 
Pepper (black, white) 
Mango Banana Celery Lettuce Legume vegetables 
Watermelon 
Cucumber Tomato Potato  0.5 
0.05 
0.2 
5 
10 
0.5 
0.05 
1 
0.2 
3 
0.2 
10 10 
5 
5 
5 5 
0.2 
Chlorpyrifos Starfruit 
Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) 
Coca beans Citrus fruits Cauliflower Chilli 
Ginger 
Maize Guava Coconut/coconut oil Cabbage Pepper (black, white) 
Palm oil 
Mustards Leafy vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Legume vegetables Tomato 1 
0.2 
0.1 
0.05 
1 
0.05 
0.5 
0.05 
0.5 
1 
0.5 
0.05 
0.5 
0.5 
1 1 
0.2 0.5 Annex 1 
 
7 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Potato  0.05 
Cinosulfuron Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans 
Palm oil 
 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
Clethodim Onion (bulb) 
Tomato  0.2 
0.1 
Copper hydroxide  Not prescribed 
 
Copper oxychloride  Not prescribed 
 
Coumaphos 
(sum of coumaphos and 
its oxygen analogue) 
 Meat (fat) 
Milks (fat) 0.5 
0.02 
Cupric hydroxide  Not prescribed 
 
Cuprous oxide  Not prescribed 
 
Cyclosulfamuron  Rice (milled or polished) 0.1 
Cycloxydim 
(sum of 3-thion-3yl-glutaric 
acid (TME) and 3-hydroxy-
3-thiam-3yl glutaric acid 
(OH-TME), expressed as  
cycloxydim)  
 Onion (bulb) 
Citrus fruits Tomato 0.5 
0.5 0.5 
Cyfluthrin Cocoa beans 
Citrus fruits Chilli Ginger Legume vegetables 
Brinjal 
 0.1 
0.5 0.5 
0.01 
0.5 
0.5 
Cyhalothrin Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) Cocoa beans Chilli Durian 
Sweet pea 
Long beans Cabbage Pepper (black, white) Palm oil Brinjal 
 0.2 
1 
0.1 0.5 0.1 
0.5 
0.5 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 
Cymoxanil Onion (bulb) 
Cabbage 
Squash Melons Cucumber 0.2 
0.2 
0.2 0.2 0.2 Annex 1 
 
8 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Tomato Yam Potato 0.2 
0.2 0.2 
 
Cypermethrin 
(sum of isomers) Starfruit 
Okra Papaya Cocoa beans Fruits Citrus fruits 
Chilli 
Meat (fat) Maize Guava Green gram 
Long beans 
Kale Cabbage Cauliflower Mango Palm oil 
Lettuce 
Mustards Leafy vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Brassica vegetables (except as otherwise listed) 
Legume vegetables (except as otherwise 
listed)  Brinjal Milks (fat) Tomato  2 
0.5 
2 
0.05 
2 2 
0.5 
0.2 
0.05 
2 
0.05 
0.5 
1 1 1 2 
0.5 
2 
2 2 1 
 
0.5 
 
0.2 
0.05 
0.5 
Cyproconazole Cocoa beans 
Coffee beans 
Palm oil Legume vegetables  0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 
Cyromazine Sweet pea 2 
 
Deltamethrin (
sum of isomers ) Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) Papaya 
Cocoa beans 
Citrus fruits Cauliflower Chilli Guava French beans 
Long beans 
Cabbage Mango Palm oil Rambutan 0.2 
1 
0.05 
0.05 
0.05 
0.2 0.2 
0.05 
0.1 
0.1 
0.2 
0.05 
0.2 
0.05 Annex 1 
 
9 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Legume vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Tea 
Brinjal 
Cucumber Tomato  0.1 
 
10 
0.2 
0.2 0.2 
Diafenthiuron Cauliflower 
Chilli Kale 
Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage Mustards Legume vegetables Brinjal 
Cucumber 
 0.2 
0.2 0.2 
0.2 
0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 
0.2 
Diazinon Starfruit 
Okra Rice (milled or polished) Citrus fruits Cauliflower 
Chilli 
Guava Rose apple Long beans Kale Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage 
Mango Celery Mustards Legume vegetables (except as otherwise 
listed) 
Brinjal Cucumber Tomato  0.5 
0.5 0.1 0.5 0.5 
0.5 
0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 
0.5 
0.5 0.5 0.5 0.2 
 
0.5 0.5 0.5 
Dicambra Palm oil 0.1 
 
Dichlorvos Mango 0.1 
 
Dicofol 
(sum of o,p’ & p,p’ 
isomers) Citrus fruits 
Chilli 
French beans 
Long beans Mango Tea Watermelon Cucumber 
Tomato 
 5 
1 
2 
2 1 5 
0.2 0.5 
1 
Difenoconazole Rice (milled or polished) 0.1 Annex 1 
 
10 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Cocoa beans Chilli French beans 
Long beans 
Mango Palm oil Banana Mustards 
Watermelon 
Cucumber Tomato  0.1 
1 1 
1 
1 
0.1 0.5 
1 
0.1 
1 1 
Diflubenzuron Cabbage 1 
 
Dimethoate 
(sum of dimethoate and 
omethoate)  Onion (bulb) 
Rice (milled or polished) Cocoa beans 
Coffee beans 
Citrus fruits Cauliflower Chilli French beans 
Long beans 
Groundnuts Kale Carrot Cabbage Pumpkins 
Radish 
Mango Pineapple Banana Lettuce 
Brassice vegetables (except as otherwise 
listed) Leafy vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Legume vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Tea 
Watermelon 
Brinjal Cucumber Tomato  0.2 
0.1 0.1 
0.1 
2 2 2 1 
1 
0.05 
0.5 
1 2 2 
1 
1 1 1 2 
2 
 
2 1 
 
0.2 
1 
2 2 1 
Dimethomorph Muskmelon 
Cucumber 
Tomato 
 0.5 
0.2 
0.5 
Dithiocarbamates 
(expressed as CS2) 
Mancozeb Maneb 
Propineb Onion (bulb) 
Amaranth Starfruit Rice (milled or polished) Papaya 0.5 
10 
5 
0.5 
5 Annex 1 
 
11 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Thiram Zineb Ziram 
 Cocoa beans 
Citrus fruits Cauliflower 
Chilli 
Spring onion leaves Durian Guava Sweet pea 
Long beans 
Groundnuts Cabbage Pumpkins Pepper (black, white) 
Leek 
Mango Melons Palm oil Banana Celery 
Lettuce 
Mustards Leafy vegetables (except as otherwise listed) Legume vegetables (except as otherwise listed) 
Tea 
Watermelon Cucumber Tomato Potato  5 
10 
5 
3 
10 
1 5 2 
2 
0.1 
5 
0.2 
3 
0.5 
2 
0.5 
1 2 5 
10 
10 10 
 
2 
5 
1 2 5 
0.2 
Diuron Papaya 
Coffee beans 
Citrus fruits 
Palm oil Pineapple Banana Sugarcane 
Tea 
 0.5 
0.1 
0.5 
0.1 0.5 0.5 0.1 
1 
DSMA Palm oil 0.1 
 
Emamectin benzoate Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage Kale Mustards 0.05 
0.05 0.05 0.05 
 
Endosulfan 
(sum of alpha and 
beta endosulfan and 
endosulfan sulphate) 
 
[to be deleted in 
Table I of Sixteenth Cocoa beans 
Fruits 
Citrus fruits 
Maize 
Cabbage 
Pepper (black, white) 
Mango 0.1 
2 
2 
0.1 
2 
0.5 
2 Annex 1 
 
12 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Schedule and will be inserted in the Table III of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (banned pesticide)]  Tea 
Brinjal 
Cucumber 30 
2 
2 
 
EPTC Rice (milled or polished) 
 0.1 
Ethoxysulfuron Rice (milled or polished) 0.01 
 
Etofenprox Rice (milled or polished) 
 0.5 
Famoxadone Watermelon 
Cucumber 
Tomato 
 0.5 
0.2 
0.2 
Fenamiphos 
(including its sulphoxide 
and sulphone, 
expressed as 
fenamiphos ) 
 Guava 
Banana 0.2 
0.1 
 
Fenitrothion Cereal grains 
Rice (milled or polished) 10 
1 
 
Fenoxaprop-p-ethyl Rice (milled or polished) 0.05 
 
Fenoxycarb Kale 
Cabbage Chinese cabbage 
Mustards 
 0.5 
0.2 0.2 
0.5 
Fenpyroximate Citrus fruits 
Chilli  0.5 
0.5 
Fenthion Starfruit 
Rice (milled or polished) Citrus fruits Guava Mango 
Cucumber 
 2 
0.05 
2 2 2 
0.5 
Fenvalerate Amaranth 
Okra Cocoa beans Citrus fruits Cauliflower 
Chilli 
Kale Cabbage Chinese cabbage Lettuce 
Mustards 2 
1 
0.05 
2 2 
1 
10 
3 1 2 
2 Annex 1 
 
13 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Brinjal Cucumber Tomato 1 
0.2 
1 
 
Fipronil Rice (milled or polished) 
Chilli Cabbage Mustards Watermelon Brinjal 
 0.01 
0.05 0.05 0.05 0.01 0.05 
Fluazifop-butyl Papaya 
Cocoa beans 
Durian Guava Mango Palm oil 
Banana 
Rambutan  0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 
0.1 
0.1 
Flufenacet Maize 0.1 
 
Flufenoxuron Cabbage 0.1 
 
Fluroxypyr Cocoa beans 
Palm oil 0.1 
0.1 
 
Flutolanil Rice (milled or polished) 
Durian Mustards 
 1 
0.1 
1 
 
Formetanate hydrochloride Chilli 
French beans 
Long beans Watermelon Brinjal Cucumber 
 2 
2 
2 1 2 1 
Formothion Okra 
Cabbage 
Root and tuber vegetables Brinjal Cucumber Tomato 
 0.1 
0.1 
2 
0.1 0.1 0.1 
Fosetyl aluminium Citrus fruits 
Cocoa beans 
Durian  5 
1 
1 
Furathiocarb Rice (milled or polished) 
Citrus fruits Chilli Maize 0.1 
3 2 
0.05 Annex 1 
 
14 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Watermelon Brinjal  0.2 
0.1 
Glufosinate 
ammonium 
(sum of glufosinate and 
3-hydroxy methyl 
phosphinyl propionic 
acid, expressed as 
glufosinate (free acid )) Onion (bulb) 
Starfruits 
Rice (milled or polished) Papaya Cocoa beans Coffee beans Citrus fruits 
Durian 
Cashew nuts Guava Coconut/coconut oil Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage 
Mango Palm oil Jackfruit Banana Lettuce 
Leafy vegetables (except as otherwise listed) 
Legume vegetables Tea Watermelon Brinjal 
Tomato 
 0.05 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.5 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.1 
0.1 
 
0.5 0.2 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
Glyphosate Starfruit 
Papaya Cocoa beans Coffee beans Citrus fruits 
Durian 
Guava Coconut/coconut oil Mango Palm oil Banana  
Tea 
 0.1 
0.2 0.5 0.2 0.2 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 
0.2 
Hexaconazole Rice (milled or polished) 
Coffee beans Long beans Mustards Cucumber 
 0.05 
0.05 
0.2 0.5 0.1 
Hexazinone Sugarcane 0.1 
 
Hexythiazox Citrus fruits 
 0.5 
Hydrogen phosphide 
(all phosphide Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans 0.1 
0.01 Annex 1 
 
15 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
expressed as hydrogen 
phosphide) 
 
Imazapyr Palm oil 0.1 
 
Imazethapyr Palm oil 0.05 
 
Imidachlorprid Rice (milled or polished) 
Citrus fruits Chilli Long beans 
Capsicum 
Mango Watermelon Brinjal  0.1 
0.5 0.1 0.5 
0.1 
0.5 0.1 0.1 
Inorganic bromide 
(expressed as total 
bromide) Cereal grains 
Pulses 
Nuts 
 50 
500 
100 
Iprodione Rice (milled or polished) 
Citrus fruits Chilli Cabbage Chinese cabbage 
Rockmelon 
Watermelon Brinjal Cucumber Tomato  10 
10 
5 5 5 
2 
2 
10 
2 5 
Ipovalicarb Tomato 1 
 
Isazofos Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans 
Banana Watermelon  0.05 
0.05 
0.1 
0.05 
 
Isoprocarb Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans Coffee beans 
 0.2 
0.1 0.1 
Isoprothiolane Rice (milled or polished) 2 
 
Lufenuron Chilli 
Maize 
Long beans Brinjal  0.5 
0.05 
0.2 0.2 
Malathion Starfruit 
Okra Rice (milled or polished) 
Papaya 2 
8 
0.5 
1 Annex 1 
 
16 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Citrus fruits Chilli Meat (cow, goat, pig) 
Poultry meat 
Guava Gabbage Pineapple Lettuce 
Mustards 
Legume vegetables Brinjal Cucumber Tomato 
 4 
0.5 
1 
1 
2 8 8 8 
8 
2 
0.5 
3 3 
MCPA Rice (milled or polished) 0.1 
 
Mepronil Rice (milled or polished) 
Legume vegetables 1 
1 
 
Mercaptodimethur (methiocarb) Rice (milled or polished) 
Long beans Mustards Cucumber  0.05 
0.1 0.1 0.1 
Metalaxyl Cocoa beans 
Citrus fruits 
Durian 
Maize Cucumber Tomato  0.2 
5 
0.2 
0.05 
0.5 0.5 
Metaldehyde Rice (milled or polished) 
Fruits 
Tuber crops 
Lettuce Strawberries 1 
1 
1 
1 1 
Methamidophos 
[to be deleted in 
Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be 
inserted in the Table 
II of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (restricted 
pesticide)]  Coconut/coconut oil 
Palm oil 0.1 
0.1 
 
Methidathion Cocoa beans 
Maize  
Palm oil 
Sugarcane Tea  0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.5 
Metolachlor Amaranth 
Chili Maize 0.1 
0.1 0.1 Annex 1 
 
17 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
French beans Sweet pea Long beans 
Soya bean 
Groundnuts Bitter gourd Angled loofah Lettuce 
Legume vegetables (except as otherwise 
listed) Sugarcane Watermelon Cucumber 
 0.1 
0.1 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 
0.1 
 
0.1 0.1 0.1 
Metribuzin Soya bean 0.05 
 
Metsulfuron methyl Rice (milled or polished) 
Palm oil 
 0.02 
0.02 
Molimate Rice (milled or polished) 0.1 
 
Monocrotophos 
[to be deleted in 
Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be 
inserted in the Table 
II of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (restricted 
pesticide)]  Coconut/coconut oil 
Palm oil 0.05 
0.05 
MSMA Cocoa beans 
Palm oil 
Sugarcane 
Tea  1 
0.1 
0.1 
1 
MTMC ( metolcarb ) 
Myclobutanil Rice (milled or polished) 
French beans Long beans Cucumber 
 0.5 
0.5 0.5 0.5 
Napropamide Chilli 
Sugarcane 
Brinjal Tomato  0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 
Ofurace Leafy vegetables 
Tomato  1 
0.5 
Oxadiargyl Rice (milled or polished) 0.05 
 
Oxadiazon Rice (milled or polished) 0.05 
 
Oxadixyl Cocoa beans 
Watermelon 1 
0.5 Annex 1 
 
18 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Cucumber Tomato Potato 
 0.5 
0.5 0.2 
Oxcarboxin French beans 
Green gram Long beans 5 
5 5 
 
Oxyfluorfen Soya bean 
Groundnuts  0.05 
0.05 
Paraquat 
[to be deleted in 
Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be 
inserted in the Table II of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (restricted pesticide)]  Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans 
Coffee beans 
Coconut/coconut oil Pepper (black, white) 
Palm oil Banana 
Root ant tuber vegetables (except as 
otherwise listed) 
Tapioca 
 0.5 
0.1 
0.05 
0.1 
0.05 
0.1 
0.05 
0.05 
 
0.05 
Pencycuron Rice (milled or polished) 
Mustards  0.5 
1 
Pendimethalin Cabbage 
Mustards Tomato 0.1 
0.1 0.1 
 
Permethrin (
sum of isomers ) Okra 
Cauliflower 
Cabbage Brinjal Tomato  1 
0.5 
5 1 1 
Phenthoate 
[to be deleted in 
Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be 
inserted in the Table 
III of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (banned 
pesticide)] Onion (bulb) 
Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) 
Cauliflower 
Cabbage 
Lettuce 
Legume vegetables 
Brinjal 
Cucumber 
Tomato 
 0.1 
0.1 
0.05 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
Phoxim Meat (cow, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, rabbit) 
Poultry meat Fat (cow, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, rabbit) Poultry fat 0.01 
0.01 0.05 0.05 
 
Picloram Sugarcane 
 0.01 Annex 1 
 
19 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Pirimiphos-methyl Rice (milled or polished) 
Maize Groundnuts 
 1 
5 2 
Pretilachlor Rice (milled or polished) 0.05 
 
Prochloraz (
sum of prochloraz and 
its metabolite 
containing the 2,4,6-
trichlorophenol moiety, 
expressed as 
prochloraz ) Papaya 
Citrus fruits Chilli Guava Pepper (black, white) Mango 
Banana 1 
5 5 2 8 2 
5 
 
Profenofos 
[to be deleted in Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be 
inserted in the Table 
III of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (banned 
pesticide)] Cauliflower 
Chilli 
Maize 
French beans 
Long beans 
Kale 
Cabbage 
Bitter ground 
Angled loofah 
Mustards 
Legume vegetables (except as otherwise 
listed) 
Brinjal 
Cucumber 
 0.5 
5 
0.05 
0.5 
0.5 
2 
1 
2 
2 
2 
0.5 
 
2 
0.1 
Propamocarb Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage Mustards 
Watermelon 
Honeydew Cucumber Tomato  0.1 
0.1 
10 
2 
2 2 1 
Propanil Rice (milled or polished) 0.1 
 
Propargite Citrus fruits 
Brinjal 
Cucumber 
Tomato  5 
2 
0.5 
2 
Propiconazole Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans Groundnuts Banana 
Sugarcane 
 0.05 
0.1 
0.05 
0.1 
0.05 
Propoxur Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans  0.1 
0.05 Annex 1 
 
20 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Prothiofos 
[to be deleted in Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be inserted in the Table III of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (banned pesticide)] 
 Cauliflower 
Chilli 
Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage 
 0.2 
0.2 
0.2 
0.2 
Pymetrozine Rice (milled or polished) 
 0.05 
Pyrazosulfuron-ethyl Rice (milled or polished) 
 0.1 
Pyrethrum  
 Not prescribed 
Pyridaben Citrus fruits 
 1 
Quinalphos 
[to be deleted in 
Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be inserted in the Table III of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (banned 
pesticide)] Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans 
Cauliflower 
Chilli 
Maize 
Cabbage 
Sugarcane 
Brinjal 
Tomato 
 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
Quinchlorac Rice (milled or polished) 
 0.5 
Quintozene 
(sum of quintozene 
penthachloraniline and 
methyl 
penthachlorophenyl 
sulfide ) 
 Cabbage 0.02 
Quizalofop-ethyl Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) 
Cocoa beans 
Chilli Long beans Chinese cabbage Cucumber Tomato 
 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 
Sethoxydim Okra 
Chilli 
Cabbage Palm oil Brinjal  0.1 
0.1 
0.2 
0.05 
0.1 
Silafluofen Rice (milled or polished) 0.2 Annex 1 
 
21 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
 
Spinosad Kale 
Cabbage Mustards 
 2 
0.5 
2 
Sulphur  Not prescribed 
 
Tebuconazole Banana 
 0.05 
Tebufenozide Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) 
Chilli Long beans Brinjal Tomato 
 0.5 
0.1 
0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 
Teflubenzuron Cabbage 
Chinese cabbage 
Mustards  0.2 
0.2 
1 
Terbuthylazine Cocoa beans 0.5 
 
Tetradifon Papaya 
Citrus fruits Guava Mango 
Strawberries 
Watermelon  5 
2 5 5 
2 
1 
Thiamethoxam Okra 
Rice (milled or polished) Brinjal  0.2 
0.1 0.2 
Thiobencarb Rice (milled or polished) 0.1 
 
Thiocyclam-hydrogen oxalate Cabbage 
Brinjal 
Tomato 
 0.3 
0.5 
0.5 
Thiometon 
(sum of thiometon, its 
sulphoxide and 
sulphone, expressed as 
thiometon ) Citrus fruits 
Chilli French beans Long beans Watermelon 
Cucumber 
Brinjal 0.5 
0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 
0.5 
0.5 
 
Thiophanate-methyl (
sum of thiphanate-
methyl and 
carbendazim, 
expressed as 
carbendazim ) See carbendazim  Annex 1 
 
22 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
 
Tolclofos-methyl Lettuce 2 
 
Tralomethrin Chilli 
Cabbage Brinjal 
Tomato 
 0.5 
0.2 0.5 
0.5 
Triadimefon Coffee beans 0.05 
 
Triadimenol (
The limits 
accommodate 
tridimenol residues 
resulting from the use 
of triadimefon and.or 
triadimenol ) 
 Cocoa beans 
Coconut/coconut oil 0.2 
0.2 
 
Triazophos 
[to be deleted in Table I of Sixteenth 
Schedule and will be 
inserted in the Table 
III of the Sixteenth 
Schedule (banned 
pesticide)]  Citrus fruits 
Mango 
 2 
2 
Tribasic copper 
sulphate 
  Not prescribed 
 
Trichlorfon Rice (milled or polished) 
Citrus fruits 
Maize French beans Long beans Kale Mustards 
Watermelon 
 0.1 
0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 
0.2 
Triclopyr Palm oil 0.1 
 
Tridemorph Sweet pea 
Pumpkins Mango Banana Legume vegetables (except as otherwise 
listed) 
Tea Watermelon Cucumber  0.1 
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 
 
15 
0.1 0.1 
Triflumuron Cabbage 1 
 Annex 1 
 
23 
 (1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Vinclozolin (
sum of vinclozolin and 
all metabolites 
containing the 3,5-
dichloroaniline moiety, 
expressed an 
vinclozolin ) 
 Strawberries 
Tomatoes 10 
3 
 
White oil   Not prescribed 
 
  
TABLE II 
 
RESTRICTED PESTICIDE 
 
The food specified in column (2) of the table below shall not contain the pesticide specified in relation thereto in column (1) in proportion greater than the maximum permitted proportion 
specified in column (3) thereof in relation to the food. 
 
(1) 
Pesticide (2) 
Food (3) 
Maximum Residue Limits 
(MRLs) in food (mg/kg) 
 
Acephate Coconut/coconut oil 
Palm oil 0.5 
0.5 
 
Methamidophos Coconut/coconut oil 
Palm oil 0.1 
0.1 
 
Monocrotophos Coconut/coconut oil 
Palm oil 
 0.05 
0.05 
Paraquat Rice (milled or polished) 
Palm oil  0.5 
0.1 
  
TABLE III 
 
BANNED PESTICIDE 
 
The following pesticides are banned in food:  2,4,5-T 
Alachlor 
Aldicarb Aldrin Azinphos-methyl Binapacryl 
Butachlor 
Calcium cyanide Annex 1 
 
24 
 Captafol 
Chlordane Chlordimeform 
Chlorobenzilate 
DDT Dieldrin Dinoseb DNOC 
EDB (Ethylene dibromide) 
Endosulfan Ethylene dichloride Ethylene oxide Fluoroacetamide Folpet 
HCH (mix isomers) 
Heptachlor Hexachlorobenzene Lindane (Gamma BHC) Mercury compounds 
Methomyl 
Methyl-parathion Parathion Penthoate Phosphamidon Profenophos 
Prothiophos 
Quinalphos Sodium pentachlorophenate (PCP) Sodium pentachlorophenate (Sodium PCP) Toxaphene 
Triazophos 
Tributyltin compound