Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 4, 2020 (Cth)

Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20—Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument
No. APVMA 4, 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 Twenty sixth day of May 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 4, 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:  Paracetamol
Permitted residue: Paracetamol
Pig fat/skin	*0.1
Pig kidney	*0.1
Pig liver	*0.1
Pig muscle	*0.1

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

Agvet chemical:  Bupirimate
Permitted residue:  Bupirimate
Tomato	T1

Agvet chemical:  Cyanamide
Permitted residue:  Cyanamide
Almonds	*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Cyazofamid
Permitted residue:  Cyazofamid
All other foods except animal food commodities	0.04
Poppy seed	T*0.01

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
Peanut	T0.3
Soya bean (dry)	T0.3

Agvet chemical:  Fludioxonil

Permitted residue:  commodities of animal origin:  Sum of fludioxonil and oxidisable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Fludioxonil

Papaya

T5

Agvet chemical:  Fluopicolide
Permitted residue:  Fluopicolide
Basil	T30

Agvet chemical:  Indoxacarb
Permitted residue:  Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer
Walnuts	T0.02

Agvet chemical:  Metolachlor
Permitted residue:  Metolachlor
Pulses [except soya beans (dry); adzuki beans (dry)]	*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Propamocarb
Permitted residue:  Propamocarb (base)
Basil	T150

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

Agvet chemical:  Cyanamide
Permitted residue:  Cyanamide
Walnuts	*0.02

Agvet chemical:  Fluopicolide
Permitted residue:  Fluopicolide
Brassica (cole or cabage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas	5

Agvet chemical:  Linuron
Permitted residue:  Permitted residue:  Sum of linuron plus 3,4-dichloroaniline, expressed as linuron
Celeriac	T3

Agvet chemical:  Metolachlor
Permitted residue:  Metolachlor
Mung bean (dry)	T*0.05
Pulses [except adzuki bean (dry); mung bean (dry); soya bean (dry)]	*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Propamocarb
Permitted residue:  Propamocarb (base)
Leafy vegetables	70