Food Safety and Security (Catalogued Insect-like Species) Order 2025

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No. S 712
Food Safety and Security Act 2025
Food Safety and Security
(Catalogued Insect-like Species)
Order 2025
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 13(2) of the Food Safety and Security Act 2025, the Singapore Food Agency, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Order is the Food Safety and Security (Catalogued Insect‑like Species) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 28 November 2025.
Catalogued insect-like species
2.  A species specified in the second column of the Schedule, at any stage of development specified opposite in the third column of the Schedule, is a catalogued insect‑like species.
THE SCHEDULE
Paragraph 2
Catalogued insect-like species
Interpretation of Schedule
1.  A species is specified in this Schedule by its scientific name and any synonym of its scientific name.
2.  The common name or names of a species are specified in this Schedule for reference only.
3.  The order of a species is specified in this Schedule for classification and information only.
First column
Second column
Third column
Fourth column
Order
Species
Stage of development
Common name
1.Coleoptera
(a)Allomyrina dichotoma
 Trypoxylus dichotomus
Larval
Japanese rhinoceros beetle
 
(b)Alphitobius diaperinus
Larval
Lesser mealworm
 
(c)Protaetia brevitarsis
Larval
Whitegrub
 
(d)Tenebrio molitor
Larval
Mealworm
 
(e)Zophobas atratus
Zophobas morio
Larval
Giant mealworm beetle
King mealworm
Superworm beetle
2.Hymenoptera
Apis mellifera
(i)Larval
(ii)Adult
European honey bee
Western honey bee
3.Lepidoptera
(a)Achroia grisella
Larval
Lesser wax moth
 
(b)Bombyx mori
(i)Larval
(ii)Pupal
Silk moth
Silkworm
 
(c)Galleria mellonella
Larval
Greater wax moth
Honeycomb moth
4.Orthoptera
(a)Acheta domesticus
Adult
House cricket
 
(b)Gryllodes sigillatus
Adult
Banded cricket
 
(c)Gryllus bimaculatus
Adult
Black cricket
Two‑spotted cricket
 
(d)Locusta migratoria
Adult
Migratory locust
 
(e)Oxya japonica
Adult
Rice grasshopper
 
(f)Schistocerca americana
Schistocerca gregaria
Adult
American desert locust
Desert locust
 
(g)Teleogryllus mitratus
Teleogryllus testaceus
Gryllus testaceus
Adult
Common cricket
Field cricket
Made on 19 November 2025.
LIM CHUAN POH
Chairperson,
Singapore Food Agency.
[AG/LEGIS/SL/111D/2025/2]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 316 of the Food Safety and Security Act 2025).

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