Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2016 (Cth)

Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2016

I, Rajumati Bhula, 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.

Rajumati Bhula
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority

Dated this Thirty First day of March 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 3, 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 7 of 5 April 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; 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

1. The table to section S20—3 in Schedule 20 is varied by

[1.1]        omitting the chemical residue definition for Abamectin and substituting the following

Permitted residue:  Avermectin B1a

[1.2]        omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs

Agvet chemical:  Abamectin
Permitted residue:  Sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1a, and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1b
Chervil	T0.5
Egg plant	0.02
Lettuce, head	0.05
Onion, Welsh	T0.05
Peppers	T0.1
Shallot	T0.05
Spring onion	T0.05
Tomato	0.05
Watercress	T0.5

Agvet chemical:  Sethoxydim
Permitted residue:  Sum of sethoxydim and metabolites containing the 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)cyclohexene-3-one and 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)-5-hydroxycyclohexene-3-one moieties and their sulfoxides and sulfones, expressed as sethoxydim
Brassica leafy vegetables	T2
Chard (silver beet)	T*0.1
Chicory leaves	T2
Endive	T2
Rucola (rocket)	T2
Spinach	*0.1

[1.3]        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
Beetroot leaves	0.5
Bulb vegetables	T0.05
Cabbages, head	T0.05
Celery	T0.05
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except mushrooms, sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)]	T0.1
Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, leaf]	T0.5
Legume vegetables [except peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds)]	T0.1
Root and tuber vegetables	T*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Sethoxydim
Permitted residue:  Sum of sethoxydim and metabolites containing the 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)cyclohexene-3-one and 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)-5-hydroxycyclohexene-3-one moieties and their sulfoxides and sulfones, expressed as sethoxydim
Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head; lettuce, leaf]	T0.5

[1.4]        omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting

Agvet chemical:  Abamectin
Permitted residue:  Sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1a, and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1b
Cucumber	T0.05
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits [except cucumber; squash, summer]	0.02
Squash, summer	T0.05

Agvet chemical:  Sethoxydim
Permitted residue:  Sum of sethoxydim and metabolites containing the 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)cyclohexene-3-one and 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)-5-hydroxycyclohexene-3-one moieties and their sulfoxides and sulfones, expressed as sethoxydim
Egg plant	T0.1
Peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds)	T0.7
Peppers	T2
Radicchio	T0.5