Regulations for Central & South America

Brazil

Aflatoxin
Commodity	Limit (ppb)
Cereals and cereals products except maize and derivatives, including malted barley	5
Beans	5
Chestnuts, except Brazil nuts, including walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts and almonds
Cocoa almonds	10
Peanuts (peeled), (peeled, raw or toasted), peanut butter	20
Corn, maize (whole, broken, crushed, ground), maize flour or meal	20


Fumonisins (B₁+B₂)
Commodity	Limit (ppb)
Corn flour, corn cream, cornmeal, flakes, canjica, canjiquinha	1500
Starch of maize and other maize products	1000


Ochratoxin A
Commodity	Maximum level (ppb)
Cereals and cereal products, including malted barley	10
Beans	10
Cocoa almonds	10

Deoxynivalenol
Commodity	Maximum level (ppb)
Whole wheat, kibbe wheat, whole wheat flour, wheat bran, rice bran, barley grain	1000
Wheat flour, cereals and cereals products except wheat and malted barley	750

Zearalenone
Commodity	Limit (ppb)
Wheat flour, cereals and cereals products except wheat and malted barley	100
Rice, processed and derived	400
Brown rice	600
Corn, canjiquinha, canjica, corn products and by-products	150
Whole wheat, whole wheat flour, wheat bran	200

Source

Ministério da Saúde, Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária. Resolução - rdc nº 7, de 18 de Fevereiro de 2011 dispõe sobre limites máximos tolerados (lmt) para micotoxinas em alimentos.

Other countries

Central & South American Countries
Countries	Commodity	Sum of mycotoxins	Limit (ppb)
Argentina	peanuts exported to EU: see EU
Argentina	peanuts, maize and products thereof	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20

Barbados	all foods	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20
Barbados	all feedstuffs	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	50

Belize	maize, groundnut	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20

Chile	all foods	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	5
	all foods	zearalenone	200
	complete feedingstuffs for poultry, goats and cattle	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	30
	complete feedingstuffs for other animals		10
	all ingredients for use in animal feed except peanuts and derivatives, cottonseed and derivatives, maize and derivatives		50
	peanuts and derivatives, cottonseed and derivatives, maize and derivatives		200

Colombia	all foods	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	10
	maize and maize products	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20
	sorghum		40
	rabbit/trout feeds		10
	poultry/dog/cat/fish feeds		20
	bovine/pig feeds		50
	sorghum	zearalenone	1000

Costa Rica	maize	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	50

Cuba	cereals, peanuts, cocoa mass	aflatoxin B1	5
	all foods	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	5
	coffee, cereals	ochratoxin A	5
	maize, rice	fumonisin B₁	1000
	imported cereals	deoxynivalenol	300
	all feeds and feed ingredients	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	5
	all feeds	deoxynivalenol	300

Dominican Republic	maize (products), groundnut, soya, tomato(products)	aflatoxin B₁G₁	0
Dominican Republic	imported maize	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20

Guatemala	maize, kidney beans, rice, sorghum, groundnuts, groundnut butter	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20
Guatemala	concentrate	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20

Honduras	all foods	aflatoxin B₂G₁G₂	1
Honduras	maize (ground or whole grain)	aflatoxin B₁	1

Jamaica	food, grains	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20

Mexico	cereals and products	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20
	cereals for bovine and porcine fattening feedstuffs		200
	feedstuffs for dairy cattle/poultry		0

Paraguay	peanuts, maize and products thereof	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20

Peru	raw and processed peanuts	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	15

Salvador, El	foods	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20
	all feedstuffs	aflatoxin B₁	10
	supplementary feeds for porcine/poultry/dairy cattle; single composite feedstuffs; bovine/caprine/ovine feedstuffs	aflatoxin B₁	20
Suriname	maize	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	30
	groundnut (products), legumes	aflatoxin B₁	5
	feedstuffs	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	30

Uruguay	peanuts, maize and products thereof	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20
	soya protein [an exception of all food and spices]	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	30
	rice, barley, beans, coffee, corn	ochratoxin A	50
	wheat flour and by-products	deoxynivalenol	1000
	corn, barley	zearalenone	200
	feed for meat cattle, sheep and birds	deoxynivalenol	5000
	feed for milk cattle		2000
	feed for pigs and horses		1000
	feed for other animals		2000
	animal feed	ergot alkaloids	450
	animal feed for pigs and female rabbits	ergot alkaloids	not detectable

Venezuela	corn, corn flour, peanuts, peanut butter	aflatoxin B₁B₂G₁G₂	20

SOURCE

FAO corporate documents repository. Worldwide regulation for mycotoxins in food and feed 2003.