Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2019 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2019
I, Alan Norden, Executive Director, Registration Management and Evaluation and delegate 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.
Alan Norden
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this Twenty-third day of January 2019
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, 2019.
2 Commencement
In accordance with subsection 82(8) of the Food Standards Australia New
Zealand Act 1991, this instrument commences on the day it is published in the Gazette.
Note: A copy of the variations made by the Amendment Instrument was published in the Commonwealth of Australia Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Gazette.
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; and
Principal 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 the chemical residue definition for Fluensulfone and substituting the following
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Sum of fluensulfone and 3,4,4-trifluorobut-3-ene-1-sulfonic acid (M-3627), expressed as fluensulfone Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Fluensulfone |
[1.2] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
| Agvet chemical: Linuron | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of linuron plus 3,4-dichloroaniline, expressed as linuron | |
| Chervil | T1 |
| Coriander (leaves, roots, stems) | T1 |
| Herbs | T1 |
| Lemon grass | T1 |
| Lemon verbena (dry leaves) | T1 |
| Mizuna | T1 |
| Rucola (rocket) | T1 |
| Agvet chemical: Paclobutrazol | |
| Permitted residue: Paclobutrazol | |
| Tomato | T*0.01 |
[1.3] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Abamectin | |
| Permitted residue: Avermectin B1a | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: 2,4-D | |
| Permitted residue: 2,4-D | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Fipronil | ||
| Permitted residue: Sum of fipronil, the sulphenyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl) sulphenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), the sulphonyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl)sulphonyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), and the trifluoromethyl metabolite (5-amino-4-trifluoromethyl-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile) | ||
| Soya bean (dry) | T*0.01 | |
| Agvet chemical: Fluensulfone | ||
| Permitted residue: Sum of fluensulfone, 3,4,4-trifluorobut-3-ene-1-sulfonic acid (M-3627) and 5-chloro-thiazole-2-sulfonic acid (M-3625) | ||
| Cereal grains | 0.05 | |
| Oilseeds | 0.05 | |
| Pulses | 0.05 | |
| Root and tuber vegetables | 2 | |
| Sugar cane | *0.03 | |
| Agvet chemical: Fluvalinate | |
| Permitted residue: Fluvalinate, sum of isomers | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.02 |
| Agvet chemical: Hexythiazox | |
| Permitted residue: Hexythiazox | |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Indoxacarb | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.05 |
| Macadamia nuts | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Linuron | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of linuron plus 3,4-dichloroaniline, expressed as linuron | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.05 |
| Parsley | T1 |
| Agvet chemical: Paclobutrazol | |
| Permitted residue: Paclobutrazol | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.01 |
| Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits | T*0.01 |
| Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except fungi; mushrooms; sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)] | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Pyraclostrobin | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Pyraclostrobin Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of pyraclostrobin and metabolites hydrolysed to 1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-ol, expressed as pyraclostrobin | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Spiroxamine | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Spiroxamine Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Spiroxamine carboxylic acid, expressed as | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.05 |
| Eggs | *0.02 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.05 |
| Poultry meat | *0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Sulfoxaflor | |
| Permitted residue: Sulfoxaflor | |
| Blackberries | T0.7 |
| Blueberries | T0.7 |
| Agvet chemical: Tebuconazole | |
| Permitted residue: Tebuconazole | |
| Pomegranate | T*0.01 |
[1.4] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
| Agvet chemical: Fluensulfone | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of fluensulfone, 3,4,4-trifluorobut-3-ene-1-sulfonic acid (M-3627) and 5-chloro-thiazole-2-sulfonic acid (M-3625) | |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits | 0.5 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Spiroxamine | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Spiroxamine Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Spiroxamine carboxylic acid, expressed as | |
| Barley | 0.05 |
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