Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 10, 2016 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 10, 2016
I, Matthew O’Mullane, Executive Director, Scientific Assessment and Chemical Review 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.
Matthew O’Mullane
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this Tenth day of November 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 10, 2016.
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 No. APVMA 23 of 15 November 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] inserting in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Amisulbrom | |
| Permitted residue: Amisulbrom | |
| Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas | 2 |
| Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas) | 1 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Grapes | 0.5 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Mandestrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Mandestrobin | |
| Stone fruits | 3 |
[1.2] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
| Agvet chemical: Abamectin | |
| Permitted residue: Avermectin B1a | |
| Potato | T0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Buprofezin | |
| Permitted residue: Buprofezin | |
| Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits | T2 |
| 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 | |
| Herbs [except fennel, leaf] | T20 |
[1.3] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Abamectin | |
| Permitted residue: Avermectin B1a | |
| Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas) | T0.03 |
| Pineapple | T*0.002 |
| Agvet chemical: Acibenzolar-S-methyl | |
| Permitted residue: Acibenzolar-S-methyl and all metabolites containing the benzo[1,2,3]thiadiazole-7-carboxyl moiety hydrolysed to benzo[1,2,3]thiadiazole-7-carboxylic acid, expressed as acibenzolar-S-methyl | |
| Cucumber | T0.5 |
| Squash, summer (including zucchini) | T0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Boscalid | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Boscalid | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of boscalid, 2-chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide and the glucuronide conjugate of 2-chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide, expressed as boscalid equivalents | |
| Onion, bulb | 0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Buprofezin | |
| Permitted residue—Buprofezin | |
| Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except tomato] | T2 |
| Tomato | 0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Chlorantraniliprole | |
| Permitted residue—plant commodities and animal commodities other than milk: Chlorantraniliprole | |
| Permitted residue—milk: Sum of chlorantraniliprole, 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[(methylamino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, and 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[[((hydroxymethyl)amino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, expressed as chlorantraniliprole | |
| Linseed | T0.5 |
| 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 | |
| Parsley | T20 |
| Agvet chemical: Difenoconazole | |
| Permitted residue: Difenoconazole | |
| Brassica leafy vegetables | T5 |
| Mizuna | T5 |
| Agvet chemical: Etoxazole | |
| Permitted residue: Etoxazole | |
| Almonds | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Flubendiamide | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Flubendiamide | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of flubendiamide and 3-iodo-N-(2-methyl-4-[1,2,2,2-tetrafluoro-1-(trifluoromethyl)ethyl]phenyl) phthalimide, expressed as flubendiamide | |
| Strawberry | 0.3 |
| Agvet chemical: Iprodione | |
| Permitted residue: Iprodione | |
| Parsley | T20 |
| Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap) | T2 |
[1.4] 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 | |
| Citrus fruits | T7 |
| Agvet chemical: Saflufenacil | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Sum of saflufenacil, N′-{2-chloro-4-fluoro-5-[1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)pyrimidin-1-yl]benzoyl-N-isopropyl sulfamide and N-[4-chloro-2-fluoro-5-({[(isopropylamino)sulfonyl]amino} carbonyl)phenyl]urea, expressed as saflufenacil equivalents | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Saflufenacil | |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | 7 |
| Pulses | 0.2 |
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