Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 5, 2022 (Cth)

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Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code

Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 5, 2022

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 ninth day of November 2022

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, 2022 (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

  1. The table to section S20–3 in Schedule 20 is varied by

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

Agvet chemical: Aminocyclopyrachlor
Permitted residue: Aminocyclopyrachlor
Mammalian fats [except milk fats] 0.05
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

Tree nuts [except walnuts] 0.05
Agvet chemical:  Flupyradifurone
Permitted residue:  Flupyradifurone
Avocado 0.7
Agvet chemical:  Glyphosate
Permitted residue:  Sum of glyphosate, N-acetyl-glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate
Oilseed [except cotton seed; linseed; peanut; poppy seed; rape seed (canola); sesame seed; sunflower seed] T*0.1
Agvet chemical:  Myclobutanil
Permitted residue:  Myclobutanil
Blackberries 2
Boysenberry 2
Raspberries, red, black 2
Agvet chemical:  Tebuconazole
Permitted residue:  Tebuconazole
Bulb vegetables [except chives; garlic] *0.01
Citrus fruits [except kumquats; mandarins; oranges, sweet, sour] T0.05
Cucumber 0.4

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

Agvet chemical: Aminocyclopyrachlor
Permitted residue: Aminocyclopyrachlor
Meat (mammalian) [in the fat] 0.05
Agvet chemical:  Amitraz
Permitted residue:  Sum of amitraz and N-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)-n′-methylformamidine, expressed as N-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)-N′-methylformamidine
Honey 0.2
Agvet chemical:  Buprofezin
Permitted residue:  Buprofezin
Basil 5
Chives, Chinese 2
Garlic chives 2
Marjoram (oregano) 5
Mints 5
Thyme 5
Agvet chemical:  Captan
Permitted residue:  Captan
Tangelo, large-sized cultivars T3
Agvet chemical:  Emamectin
Permitted residue:  Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Sorghum, grain *0.002
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

Bulb onions 0.07
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits 0.5
Green onions 2
Macadamia nuts 0.2
Olives for oil production 3
Olive oil, crude 5
Peppers, sweet 0.3
Pistachio nut 0.2
Table olives 3
Tree nuts [except macadamia nuts; pistachio nut; walnuts] 0.05
Agvet chemical:  Flupyradifurone
Permitted residue:  Flupyradifurone
Assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – inedible peel [except banana; mango; papaya; pineapple] 1.5
Olives for oil production 1
Table olives 1
Agvet chemical:  Fluxapyroxad
Permitted residue:  Fluxapyroxad
Pomegranate T0.3
Agvet chemical:  Glyphosate
Permitted residue:  Sum of glyphosate, N-acetyl-glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate
Oilseed [except cotton seed; linseed; peanut; poppy seed; rape seed (canola); safflower seed; sesame seed; sunflower seed] T*0.1
Safflower seed 7
Agvet chemical:  Myclobutanil
Permitted residue:  Myclobutanil
Cane berries 2
Agvet chemical:  Pyraclostrobin

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Pyraclostrobin

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin:  Sum of pyraclostrobin and metabolites hydrolysed to 1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-ol, expressed as pyraclostrobin

Pomegranate T0.3
Agvet chemical:  Quizalofop-ethyl
Permitted residue:  Sum of quizalofop-ethyl and quizalofop acid and other esters, expressed as quizalofop-ethyl
Barley *0.02
Agvet chemical:  Tebuconazole
Permitted residue:  Tebuconazole
Bulb onions [except garlic] 0.07
Citrus fruits [except mandarins; oranges, sweet, sour] 0.2
Custard apple 2
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits 0.5
Green onions 2
Olives for oil production 2
Olive oil, crude 5
Passionfruit 0.5
Persimmon, American 2
Strawberry 2
Table olives 2
Tomato 0.5
Agvet chemical:  Tetraniliprole
Permitted residue:  Tetraniliprole
Cane berries T0.5

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

Agvet chemical: Aminocyclopyrachlor
Permitted residue: Aminocyclopyrachlor
Edible offal (mammalian) 0.5
Milks 0.02
Agvet chemical:  Bupirimate
Permitted residue:  Bupirimate
Tomato T0.3
Agvet chemical:  Imazapic
Permitted residue:  Sum of imazapic and its hydroxymethyl derivative
Oats 0.05
Agvet chemical:  Imazapyr
Permitted residue:  Imazapyr
Oats 0.1
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