Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 4, 2016 (Cth)

Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 4, 2016

I, Matthew O’Mullane, Acting 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 Twenty Eighth day of April 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 4, 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 9 of 3 May 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]        inserting in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical:  Decoquinate
Permitted residue:  Decoquinate
Chicken kidney	0.8
Chicken liver	1
Chicken meat	0.5
Chicken fat/skin	1

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

Agvet chemical:  Bifenthrin
Permitted residue:  Bifenthrin
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas [except cabbages, head]	T1
Cabbages, head	T7

Agvet chemical:  Maldison
Permitted residue:  Maldison
Egg plant	0.5
Fruit [except citrus fruits; currant, black; dried fruits; grapes; pear; strawberry]	2
Pear	0.5
Peppers, sweet	0.5
Tomato	3
Vegetables [except beans (dry); cauliflower; chard (silver beet); egg plant; garden pea; kale; kohlrabi; lentil (dry); onion, Welsh; peppers, sweet; root and tuber vegetables; shallot; spring onion; tomato; turnip, garden]	2

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

Agvet chemical:  Bifenthrin
Permitted residue:  Bifenthrin
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas	T1
Celery	T*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Cyproconazole
Permitted residue:  Cyproconazole, sum of isomers
Maize	T*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Difenoconazole
Permitted residue:  Difenoconazole
Cotton seed	T0.05

Agvet chemical:  Ethephon
Permitted residue:  Ethephon
Lychee	T*0.05

Agvet chemical:  Etoxazole
Permitted residue:  Etoxazole
Mango	T0.1

Agvet chemical:  Maldison
Permitted residue:  Maldison
Berries and other small fruits [except grapes; strawberry]	10
Cucumber	3
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits	3
Fruits [except berries and other small fruits; citrus fruits; dried fruits; stone fruits]	2
Stone fruits	5
Vegetables [except beans (dry); cauliflower; chard; cucumber; fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits; garden pea; kale; kohlrabi; lentil (dry); onion, Welsh; root and tuber vegetables; shallot; spring onion; turnip, garden]	2

Agvet chemical:  Spinetoram
Permitted residue:  Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L
Cotton seed	*0.01
Pulses	0.01

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

Agvet chemical:  Azoxystrobin
Permitted residue:  Azoxystrobin
Cotton seed	T0.05

Agvet chemical:  Spinetoram
Permitted residue:  Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L
Milk fats	0.2
Milks	0.01