Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 8, 2018 (Cth)

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Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code

Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 8, 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 Sixteenth day of October 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 8, 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 21 of 23 October 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]        omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs

Avget chemical: Maldison
Permitted residue: Maldison
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits 3
Avget chemical: Methomyl
Permitted residue: Methomyl
Persimmon, American       T0.2

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

Avget chemical: Cypermethrin
Permitted residue: Cypermethrin, sum of isomers
Peanut T*0.05
Avget chemical: Flamprop-methyl
Permitted residue:  Flamprop-methyl
Chick-pea (dry) *0.01
Eggs *0.01
Poultry, edible offal of *0.01
Poultry meat *0.01
Avget chemical: Maldison
 Permitted residue: Maldison
All other foods except animal food commodities 0.05
Fruiting vegetables, other the cucurbits [except peppers, sweet] 3
Peppers, sweet T5
Avget chemical: Pymetrozine
Permitted residue: Pymetrozine
All other foods except animal food commodities 0.02
Broad bean (dry) T0.02
Lupin (dry) T0.02
Avget chemical: Quintozene
Permitted residue: Sum of quintozene, pentachloroaniline and methyl pentacholorophenyl sulfide, expressed as quintozene
Beans, except broad bean and soya bean 0.01
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas

0.2

Broad bean (green pods and immature seeds) 0.01
Common bean (dry) (navy bean) 0.2
Cotton seed 0.03
Edible offal (mammalian) *0.1
Eggs *0.03
Lettuce, head 0.3
Lettuce, leaf 0.3
Meat (mammalian)(in the fat) *0.2
Milks *0.02
Potato 0.2
Poultry, Edible offal of *0.1
Poultry meat (in the fat) *0.1
Tomato 0.1

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

Avget chemical: Chlorantraniliprole

Permitted residue—plant commodities and animal commodities other than milk:  Chlorantraniliprole

 Permitted residue—milk:  Sum of chlorantraniliprole, 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[(methylamino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, and 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[[((hydroxymethyl)amino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, expressed as chlorantraniliprole

Almonds 0.1
Avget chemical: Methomyl l
Permitted residue: Methomyl
Persimmon, American       T0.05
Agvet chemical: Propiconazole
Permitted residue: Propiconazole
Citrus fruits   7
Agvet chemical: Sedaxane
Permitted residue: Sedaxane, sum of isomers
Potato   0.1
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