Tables of Maximum Contaminant Levels for Feeds

Last amended: 2025-01-27

Previous versions: From 2024-07-03 to 2025-01-26; copy available upon request

This document is incorporated by reference into the Feeds Regulations, 2024. Any changes to this document must be made in accordance with the CFIA Incorporation by Reference Policy.

Table 1: Aflatoxins
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 species/class of livestock	Column 3 single ingredient feeds in an amount not exceeding (ppb^{Table note 1})	Column 4 total diet, in an amount not exceeding (ppb^{Table note 1})
Aflatoxins	All	20	20

Table 2: Deoxynivalenol
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 species/class of livestock	Column 3 total diet in an amount not exceeding (ppm^{Table note 2})
Deoxynivalenol	Calves, kids, lambs (less than 4 months)	2
Deoxynivalenol	Beef cattle, sheep, and horses	10
Deoxynivalenol	Non-lactating dairy cattle	10
Deoxynivalenol	Other ruminants (lactating dairy cattle and goats that are greater than 4 months old)	5
Deoxynivalenol	Starter swine (less than 20 kg)	1
Deoxynivalenol	All other classes of swine	2
Deoxynivalenol	Poultry	5
Deoxynivalenol	Rabbits	5
Deoxynivalenol	Salmonid fish	0.6
Deoxynivalenol	Non-salmonid fish	5

Table 3: Fumonisins
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 species/class of livestock	Column 3 total diet in an amount not exceeding (ppm^{Table note 3})
Fumonisins	Horses	1
Fumonisins	Rabbits	1
Fumonisins	Swine	10
Fumonisins	Breeding bulls and lactating dairy cattle	15
Fumonisins	Other ruminants (other beef cattle, other dairy cattle, sheep and goats, and other ruminants that are greater than 4 months old and fed for slaughter)	30
Fumonisins	Laying hens and roosters for breeding stock	15
Fumonisins	Other poultry (turkeys, chickens, ducklings and other poultry fed for slaughter)	50

Table 4: Dioxins, furans, and dioxin-like PCBs^{Table note 4}
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 single ingredient feed	Column 3 species/class of livestock	Column 4 maximum level (ng WHO-TEQ₂₀₀₅/kg)^{Table note 5}
Dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs	Fish meal	All	3.0
Dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs	Fish oil	All	16
Dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs	Mineral-based feed ingredients (including natural sources, mined deposits and chemically synthesized products) Examples: single mineral feed ingredients (for example, copper sulphate, zinc oxide) mineral complexes; mineral chelates; mineral proteinates trace mineral premixes	All	1.5
Dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs	Anticaking agents	All	1.5
Dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs	Vegetable oils and by-products of vegetable oil manufacturing For example: vegetable (palm) oil hydrogenated vegetable (palm) oil calcium salts of fatty acids fractionated palm fatty acid distillates hydrogenated palm fatty acid distillates palm palmitic acid (C16:0)	All	1.5
Dioxins and furans	Vegetable oils and by-products of vegetable oil manufacturing For example: vegetable (palm) oil hydrogenated vegetable (palm) oil calcium salts of fatty acids fractionated palm fatty acid distillates hydrogenated palm fatty acid distillates palm palmitic acid (C16:0)	All	0.75

World Health Organization 2005 Toxic Equivalencies (WHO-TEQ2005)

Table 5: Arsenic
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 total livestock diet^{Table note 6}	Column 3 maximum level (mg/kg)
Arsenic	Total diet for all livestock species	8

Table 6: Cadmium
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 total livestock diet^{Table note 7}	Column 3 maximum level (mg/kg)
Cadmium	Total diet for horses	0.2
Cadmium	Total diet for fish species	1
Cadmium	Total diet for all other livestock species	0.4

Table 7: Lead
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 total livestock diet^{Table note 8}	Column 3 maximum level (mg/kg)
Lead	Total diet for all livestock species	8

Table 8: Fluorine
Column 1 contaminant	Column 2 feed type	Column 3 species/class of livestock	Column 4 maximum level (mg/kg)
Fluorine	Mineral feed containing 9% or less of phosphorus	Cattle, sheep or horses	2,000
Fluorine	Mineral feed containing greater than 9% of phosphorus	Cattle, sheep or horses	3,000
Fluorine	Mineral feed	Swine	6,000
Fluorine	Complete feed	Horses and rabbits	40
Fluorine	Complete feed	Cattle and sheep	50
Fluorine	Complete feed	Swine and turkeys	150
Fluorine	Complete feed	Chickens	200
Fluorine	Complete feed	Fish	350
Fluorine	Complete feed	All other livestock species	150