International
Chart of standard for individual heavy metals in fertilizers for China, Canada, Australia, and Japan as of 2004. Arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, lead, selenium, zinc, chromium.
http://afpc.net/World%20Stds%2004.pdf
European Union
Principle of Food Safety is that "food safety policy must be on a comprehensive, integrated approach. This means throughout the food chain ('farm to table'); across all food sectors..." Notes the need for risk assessment data, that food safety of animal-origin food begins with safety of the feed, and that "the precautionary principle will be applied in risk management decisions."
- European Commission, OPINION OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON TOXICITY, ECOTOXICITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (CSTEE) ON “
HEAVY METALS AND ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM WASTES USED AS ORGANIC FERTILIZERS” (FINAL DRAFT REPORT B4-3040/2001/325284/MAR/A2) Adopted by the CSTEE during the 41st plenary meeting of 8 January 2004.
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/sct/documents/out221_en.pdf
China
- China's Director General Li Yuanping's presentation at the European Policy Center, Believe in China-made, Believe in Chinese Products, 10/16/07
Australia/New Zealand
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) "is an independent statuory agency established by the Food Standards Austraila New Zealand Act 1991. They set the food safety standards for both countries http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/
Africa
- African Agriculture, Blog entry, High levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium have been found in South African pineapples after farmers unwittingly used fertiliser contaminated with the trace element. As a result, at least one shipment of canned pineapples from SA has been rejected in the European Union. July 7, 2007.