Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2021 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2021
I, Sheila Logan, 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.
Sheila Logan
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this Twenty-third day of April 2021
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, 2021 (Amendment Instrument).
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: Fomesafen | |
| Permitted residue: Fomesafen | |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.02 |
| Eggs | *0.02 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.02 |
| Milks | *0.02 |
| Poultry, Edible offal of | *0.02 |
| Poultry meat | *0.02 |
| Pulses | *0.01 |
[1.2] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
| 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 | |
| Rape seed (canola) | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Pyraflufen-ethyl | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of pyraflufen-ethyl and its acid metabolite (2-chloro-5-(4-chloro-5-difluoromethoxy-1-methylpyrazol-3-yl)-4-fluorophenoxyacetic acid) | |
| Field pea (dry) | *0.02 |
| Agvet chemical: Spinetoram | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L | |
| Leek | T0.2 |
| Onion, bulb | T*0.01 |
| Onion, Welsh | T0.3 |
| Shallot | T0.3 |
| Spring onion | T0.3 |
[1.3] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin | |
| Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob) | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Bromoxynil | |
| Permitted residue: Bromoxynil | |
| Walnuts | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Diflufenican | |
| Permitted residue: Diflufenican | |
| Walnuts | 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 | |
| Cereal grains | 0.03 |
| Lettuce, head | 15 |
| Lettuce, leaf | 15 |
| Oilseed | 0.03 |
| Agvet chemical: Spinetoram | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L | |
| Bulb vegetables (alliums) | 0.1 |
| Cacao beans | *0.01 |
| Carob | 0.1 |
| 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 | |
| Lettuce, head | 15 |
| Lettuce, leaf | 15 |
[1.4] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
| 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 | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.2 |
| Agvet chemical: Metalaxyl | |
| Permitted residue: Metalaxyl | |
| Walnuts | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Methomyl | |
| Permitted residue: Methomyl | |
| Mango | T*0.01 |
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