Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 5, 2018 (Cth)

Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 5, 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 Ninth of August 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 5, 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 16 14 August 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 in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical:  Amicarbazone
Permitted residue— Sum of amicarbazone, N-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4,5-dihydro-3-(1-methylethyl)-5-oxo-1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-carboxamide and N-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4,5-dihydro-3-(1-hydroxy-1-methylethyl)-5-oxo-1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-carboxamide, expressed as amicarbazone
Edible offal (Mammalian)	0.7
Meat [mammalian]	0.01
Milks	*0.01
Sugarcane	0.1

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

Agvet chemical:  Bixafen

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Bixafen

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin:  Sum of bixafen and N-(3′,4′-dichloro-5-fluorobiphenyl-2-yl)-3-(difluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide (bixafen-desmethyl), expressed as bixafen

Barley

T0.02

Cereal grains [except barley; wheat]

*0.01

Wheat

T0.02

Agvet chemical:  Endothal
Permitted residue:  Endothal
Potato	0.1

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

Agvet chemical:  Bixafen

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Bixafen

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin:  Sum of bixafen and N-(3′,4′-dichloro-5-fluorobiphenyl-2-yl)-3-(difluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide (bixafen-desmethyl), expressed as bixafen

Cereal grains

*0.01

Agvet chemical:  Cyromazine
Permitted residue:  Cyromazine
Broccoli	T1
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits	T0.7
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except mushrooms, sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)]	T1
Legume vegetables	T1
Lettuce, head	T8
Root and tuber vegetables	T1
Stalk and stem vegetables	T7

Agvet chemical:  Halosulfuron-methyl
Permitted residue:  Halosulfuron-methyl
Rice	T*0.05

Agvet chemical:  Sulfoxaflor
Permitted residue:  Sulfoxaflor
Litchi	T3
Mango	T0.7
Papaya	T0.7
Passionfruit	T1

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

Agvet chemical:  Abamectin
Permitted residue:  Avermectin B1a
Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas)	0.03

Agvet chemical:  Clothianidin
Permitted residue:  Clothianidin
Cherimoya	T0.1
Custard apple	T0.1
Ilama	T0.1
Olives	T0.3
Soursop	T0.1
Sugar apple	T0.1

Agvet chemical:  Cypermethrin
Permitted residue:  Cypermethrin, sum of isomers
Persimmon, American	T0.2
Persimmon, Japanese	T0.2