Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code —Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2020 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2020
I, Jason Lutze, 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.
Jason Lutze
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this Eighth day of January 2020
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, 2020.
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] inserting in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Cinmethylin | |
| Permitted residue: Cinmethylin | |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat | *0.01 |
| Wheat | *0.01 |
[1.2] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
| Agvet chemical: Bixafen | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Bixafen Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of bixafen and N-(3′,4′-dichloro-5-fluorobiphenyl-2-yl)-3-(difluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide (bixafen-desmethyl), expressed as bixafen | |
| Oilseed | *0.01 |
| 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 | |
| Olives | T2 |
| Agvet chemical: Indoxacarb | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer | |
| Chervil | T10 |
| Leafy vegetables [except chervil; lettuce, head; mizuna; rucola] | 5 |
| Mizuna | T10 |
| Rucola (rocket) | T20 |
[1.3] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Afidopyropen | |
| Permitted residue: commodities of plant origin: Afidopyropen Permitted residue: commodities of animal origin: Afidopyropen and the carnitine conjugate of cyclopropanecarboxylic acid (M440I060), expressed as afidopyropen | |
| Carrot | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Bixafen | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Bixafen Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of bixafen and N-(3′,4′-dichloro-5-fluorobiphenyl-2-yl)-3-(difluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide (bixafen-desmethyl), expressed as bixafen | |
| Cotton seed | T0.3 |
| Cotton seed oil, crude | T0.5 |
| Oilseed [except cotton seed] | *0.01 |
| 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 | |
| Olives for oil production | T30 |
| Table olives | T30 |
| Agvet chemical: Etofenprox | |
| Permitted residue: Etofenprox | |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat (in the fat) | *0.01 |
| Stone fruits [except cherries] | 5 |
| Agvet chemical: Etoxazole | |
| Permitted residue: Etoxazole | |
| Passionfruit | T0.1 |
| Agvet chemical: Indoxacarb | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer | |
| Fennel, leaf | 5 |
| Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits | 0.2 |
| Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head] | 5 |
| Agvet chemical: Iprodione | |
| Permitted residue: Iprodione | |
| Beetroot leaves | T20 |
| Chicory leaves | T20 |
| Cucumber | T0.5 |
| Endive | T20 |
| Agvet chemical: Prothioconazole | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Sum of prothioconazole and prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of prothioconazole, prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), prothioconazole-3-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol) and prothioconazole-4-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole | |
| Cotton seed | T0.2 |
[1.4] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
| Agvet chemical: Amoxycillin | |
| Permitted residue: Inhibitory substance, identified as amoxycillin | |
| Eggs | 0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Emamectin | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b | |
| Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head and lettuce, leaf] | T0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Imidacloprid | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap) | T0.2 |
| Agvet chemical: Indoxacarb | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer | |
| Asparagus | *0.01 |
| Celery | 3 |
| Cherries | 1 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) [except kidney] | 0.02 |
| Kidney (mammalian) | 0.5 |
| Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) | 3 |
| Milk fats | 2 |
| Tomato | 0.2 |
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