Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2016 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2016
I, Kareena Arthy, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, acting in accordance with my powers under subsection 11(1) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992, make this instrument for the purposes of subsection 82(1) of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991.
Kareena Arthy
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this 18th day of February 2016
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Name of instrument
This instrument is the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2016.
2 Commencement
In accordance with subsection 82(8) of the Food Standards Australia New
Zealand Act 1991, this instrument commences on 1 March 2016 which is the day a copy of it will be published in the Gazette. This instrument takes effect on that day immediately after the Food Standards (Proposal M1013 – Schedule 20 – MRLs – Consequentials & Corrective Amendments) Variation takes effect.
Note: A copy of this instrument will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Special Gazette, 1 March 2016.
3 Object
The object of this instrument is for the APVMA to make variations to Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code to include or change maximum residue limits
pertaining to agricultural and veterinary chemical products.
4 Interpretation
In this instrument: —
APVMA means the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines
Authority established by section 6 of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992; andPrincipal Instrument means Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits
in the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code as defined in Section 4 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 being the Code published in Gazette No. P 27 on 27 August 1987 together with any amendments of the standards in that Code. Schedule 20 was published in the Food Standards Gazette FSC 96 on Thursday 10 April 2015 and was registered as a legislative instrument on 1 April 2015 F2015L00468.
Part 2 Variations to Schedule 20—
Maximum Residue Limits
5 Variations to Schedule 20
The Schedule to this instrument sets out the variations made to the Principal Instrument by this instrument.
Schedule
Variations to Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits
The table to section S20—3 in Schedule 20 is varied by
[1.1] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
| Agvet chemical: Propachlor | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of propachlor and metabolites hydrolysable to N-isopropylaniline, expressed as propachlor | |
| Brassica leafy vegetables | T*0.05 |
| Chard | T*0.02 |
| Rucola (rocket) | T*0.05 |
| Spinach | T*0.02 |
Agvet chemical: Pymetrozine | |
| Permitted residue: Pymetrozine | |
| Egg plant | T0.05 |
| Peppers, sweet | T0.3 |
| Tomato | T0.2 |
[1.2] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Abamectin | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1a, and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1b | |
| Macadamia nuts | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin | |
| Chard (silverbeet) | T3 |
| Agvet chemical: Chlorothalonil | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Chlorothalonil | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: 4-hydroxy-2,5,6-trichloroisophthalonitrile metabolite, expressed as chlorothalonil | |
| Pistachio nut | T0.1 |
| Agvet chemical: Clothianidin | |
| Permitted residue: Clothianidin | |
| Blueberries | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Cyazofamid | |
| Permitted residue: Cyazofamid | |
| Broccoli | 2 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Potato | *0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Flumioxazin | |
| Permitted residue: Flumioxazin | |
| Sugar cane | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Imidacloprid | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Beetroot leaves | T1 |
| Agvet chemical: Propachlor | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of propachlor and metabolites hydrolysable to N-isopropylaniline, expressed as propachlor | |
| Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head; lettuce, leaf] | T1 |
| Agvet chemical: Pymetrozine | |
| Permitted residue: Pymetrozine | |
| Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except mushroom; sweet corn] | 0.5 |
| Mizuna | 5 |
| Agvet chemical: Spinetoram | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L | |
| Chia | T0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Tebuconazole | |
| Permitted residue: Tebuconazole | |
| Almonds | *0.01 |
[1.3] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
| Agvet chemical: Dithiocarbamates | |
| Permitted residue: Total dithiocarbamates, determined as carbon disulphide evolved during acid digestion and expressed as milligrams of carbon disulphide per kilogram of food | |
| Banana | T15 |
| Agvet chemical: Methabenzthiazuron | |
| Permitted residue: Methabenzthiazuron | |
| Onion, Welsh | T0.5 |
| Shallot | T0.5 |
| Spring onion | T0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Pymetrozine | |
| Permitted residue: Pymetrozine | |
| Almonds | *0.01 |
| Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas | 0.5 |
| Celery | 0.2 |
| Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits | 1 |
| Leafy vegetables | 5 |
| Pistachio nut | *0.01 |
| Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob) | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Trichlorfon | |
| Permitted residue: Trichlorfon | |
| Pepino | T5 |
0
0
0