Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 4, 2018 (Cth)

Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 4, 2018

I, Jason Lutze, 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.

Jason Lutze

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

Dated this Twenty Eighth of June 2018

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, 2018.

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 13 of 3 July 2018.

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 for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical:  Acetamiprid

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Acetamiprid

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin:  Sum of acetamiprid and N-demethyl acetamiprid ((E)-N1-[(6-chloro-3-pyridyl)methyl]-N2-cyanoacetamidine), expressed as acetamiprid

Cherries

2

Plums (including prunes)

0.5

Stone fruits [except cherries; plums]

0.5

Agvet chemical:  Emamectin
Permitted residue:  Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Blueberries	T0.07

Agvet chemical:  Metalaxyl
Permitted residue:  Metalaxyl
Basil	T5
Basil, dry	T30

Agvet chemical:  Novaluron
Permitted residue:  Novaluron
Stone fruits [except cherries]	0.5

Agvet chemical:  Pendimethalin
Permitted residue:  Pendimethalin
All other foods except animal food commodities	0.02

Agvet chemical:  Penflufen
Permitted residue:  Penflufen
Lupin (dry)	T*0.01
Soya bean (dry)	T*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Prochloraz
Permitted residue:  Sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the 2,4,6-trichlorophenol moiety, expressed as prochloraz
All other foods except animal food commodities	0.1
Cherimoya	T1
Ilama	T1
Soursop	T1
Sugar apple	T1

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

Agvet chemical:  Pendimethalin
Permitted residue:  Pendimethalin
Legume vegetables	T0.2

Agvet chemical:  Prochloraz
Permitted residue:  Sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the 2,4,6-trichlorophenol moiety, expressed as prochloraz
Custard apple	T1