Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2020 (Cth)

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Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code

Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 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 Thirty first day of March 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 3, 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

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

[1.1]           inserting in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical:  Bixlozone
Permitted residue:  Bixlozone
Barley *0.01
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
Rape seed (canola) *0.01
Wheat *0.01
Agvet chemical:  Carbetamide
Permitted residue:  Carbetamide
Edible offal (mammalian) *0.05
Eggs *0.05
Meat (mammalian) *0.05
Milks *0.05
Poultry, edible offal of *0.05
Poultry meat *0.05
Pulses *0.01
Agvet chemical:  Flubendazole

Permitted residue—commodities other than eggs: Sum of flubendazole and 2-amino-1 H-benzimidazole-5-yl)(4-fluorophenyl methanone, expressed as flubendazole

Permitted residue—eggs: Flubendazole

Chicken fat/skin 0.03
Chicken liver 0.2
Chicken kidney 0.1
Chicken muscle *0.02
Eggs 0.6
Pig fat/skin *0.02
Pig liver 0.4
Pig kidney 0.3
Pig muscle *0.02

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

Agvet chemical:  Lasalocid
Permitted residue:  Lasalocid
Poultry, edible offal of 0.4
Poultry meat 0.7

[1.3]           inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical:  Diafenthiuron
Permitted residue:  Sum of diafenthiuron; N-[2,6-bis(1-methylethyl)- 4-phenoxyphenyl]-N′-(1,1-dimethylethyl)urea; and N-[2,6-bis(1-methylethyl)-4-phenoxyphenyl]- N′-(1,1-dimethylethyl)carbodiimide, expressed as diafenthiuron
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits 0.5
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits 0.5
Agvet chemical:  Difenoconazole
Permitted residue:  Difenoconazole
Coffee beans T*0.01
Agvet chemical:  Etoxazole
Permitted residue:  Etoxazole
Sweet corn (kernels) T*0.01
Agvet chemical:  Fluopyram

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Fluopyram

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin:  Sum of fluopyram and 2-(trifluoromethyl)-benzamide, expressed as fluopyram

Assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – inedible peel [except banana; pineapple] T2
Agvet chemical:  Fluralaner
Permitted residue:  Fluralaner
Chicken eggs 1.3
Chicken fat/skin 0.6
Chicken kidney 0.4
Chicken liver 0.6
Chicken muscle 0.06
Agvet chemical:  Halosulfuron-methyl
Permitted residue:  Halosulfuron-methyl
Soya bean (dry) T*0.01
Agvet chemical:  Imazamox
Permitted residue:  Imazamox
Eggs *0.01
Poultry meat *0.01
Poultry, edible offal of *0.01
Agvet chemical:  Lasalocid
Permitted residue:  Lasalocid
Poultry kidney 0.7
Poultry liver 1.2
Poultry muscle 0.4
Agvet chemical:  Napropamide
Permitted residue:  Napropamide
Basil T*0.1
Agvet chemical:  Prosulfocarb
Permitted residue:  Prosulfocarb
Safflower seed T*0.1
Agvet chemical:  Tebuconazole
Permitted residue:  Tebuconazole
Coffee bean T0.1
Agvet chemical:  Trifloxystrobin
Permitted residue:  Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)- methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-ethylideneaminooxymethyl] phenyl] acetic acid), expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents
Assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – inedible peel [except banana; pineapple] T2

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

Agvet chemical:  Bifenthrin
Permitted residue:  Bifenthrin
Sugar cane T0.7
Agvet chemical:  Glufosinate and Glufosinate-ammonium
Permitted residue:  Sum of glufosinate-ammonium, N-acetyl glufosinate and 3-[hydroxy(methyl)-phosphinoyl] propionic acid, expressed as glufosinate (free acid)
Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap) T*0.05
Agvet chemical:  Lasalocid
Permitted residue:  Lasalocid
Poultry fat/skin 0.6
Agvet chemical:  Oxamyl
Permitted residue:  Sum of oxamyl and 2-hydroxyimino-N,N-dimethyl-2-(methylthio)-acetamide, expressed as oxamyl
Sweet potato 0.2
Agvet chemical:  Trinexapac-ethyl
Permitted residue:  Trinexapac acid
Poppy seed 20
Sugar cane 0.1
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