Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 7, 2019 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 7, 2019
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 Seventh day of November 2019
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 7, 2019.
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
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: Azoxystrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin | |
| Tree nuts [except almonds] | 2 |
| Agvet chemical: Difenoconazole | |
| Permitted residue: Difenoconazole | |
| Mizuna | T5 |
| 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 | |
| Olives | T1 |
[1.2] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Afidopyropen | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Afidopyropen Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Afidopyropen and the carnitine conjugate of cyclopropanecarboxylic acid (M440I060), expressed as afidopyropen | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.02 |
| Strawberry | T0.1 |
| Agvet chemical: Aminopyralid | |
| Permitted residue: commodities of plant origin: Sum of aminopyralid and conjugates, expressed as Aminopyralid Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Aminopyralid | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.02 |
| Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin | |
| Macadamia nuts | *0.01 |
| Tree nuts [except almonds and macadamia nuts] | 2 |
| Agvet chemical: Benzovindiflupyr | |
| Permitted residue: Benzovindiflupyr | |
| Barley | 0.2 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Meat (mammalian) [in the fat] | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat [in the fat] | *0.01 |
| Wheat | 0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Cypermethrin | |
| Permitted residue: Cypermethrin, sum of isomers | |
| Hempseed | T0.1 |
| Agvet chemical: Flumioxazin | |
| Permitted residue: Flumioxazin | |
| Garlic | T*0.02 |
| Agvet chemical: Halauxifen-methyl | |
| Permitted residue: commodities of plant origin: Halauxifen-methyl Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: 4-Amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-pyridine-2-carboxylic acid, expressed as halauxifen-methyl | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Imazapyr | |
| Permitted residue: Imazapyr | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Metalaxyl | |
| Permitted residue: Metalaxyl | |
| Hazelnuts | T*0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Napropamide | |
| Permitted residue: Napropamide | |
| Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas | T*0.1 |
| 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 | |
| Table olives | T0.3 |
| Olives for oil production | T0.3 |
| Olive oil, crude | T1 |
| Agvet chemical: Pyrethrins | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of pyrethrins i and ii, Cinerinsi i and ii and jasmolins i and ii, determined after calibration by means of the International Pyrethrum Standard | |
| Fennel, leaf | 1 |
| Olive oil, crude | T3 |
| Agvet chemical: Pyriproxyfen | |
| Permitted residue: Pyriproxyfen | |
| Avocado | 0.05 |
| Macadamia nuts | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Quizalofop-ethyl | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of quizalofop-ethyl and quizalofop acid and other esters, expressed as quizalofop-ethyl | |
| Hempseed | T*0.02 |
| Agvet chemical: Sethoxydim | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of sethoxydim and metabolites containing the 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl) cyclohexene-3-one and 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)-5-hydroxycyclohexene-3-one moieties and their sulfoxides and sulfones, expressed as sethoxydim | |
| Hempseed | T0.5 |
| Safflower seed | T0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Sulfoxaflor | |
| Permitted residue: Sulfoxaflor | |
| Longans | T3 |
| Agvet chemical: Terbuthylazine | |
| Permitted residue: Terbuthylazine | |
| Sugar cane | *0.01 |
[1.3] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
| Agvet chemical: Abamectin | |
| Permitted residue: Avermectin B1a | |
| Custard apple | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Cyflufenamid | |
| Permitted residue: Cyflufenamid | |
| Strawberry | 0.3 |
| Agvet chemical: Difenoconazole | |
| Permitted residue: Difenoconazole | |
| Chard (silver beet) | T5 |
| Chicory leaves (green and red cultivars) | T5 |
| Endive | T5 |
| Spinach | T5 |
| 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 | |
| Pineapple | T5 |
| Agvet chemical: Imidacloprid | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Hazelnuts | T0.05 |
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