Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 8, 2020 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 8, 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 Tenth day of November 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 8, 2020 (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
The table to section S20–3 in Schedule 20 is varied by
[1.1] omitting the chemical residue definition for isofetamid and substituting the following
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Isofetamid Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of isofetamid and 2-[3-methyl-4-[2-methyl-2-(3-methylthiophene-2- carboxamido) propanoyl]phenoxy]propanoic acid (PPA), expressed as isofetamid |
[1.2] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
| Agvet chemical: Bifenthrin | |
| Permitted residue: Bifenthrin | |
| Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas | T1 |
[1.3] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Bifenazate | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate | |
| All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.2 |
| Avocado | T2 |
| Agvet chemical: Bifenthrin | |
| Permitted residue: Bifenthrin | |
| Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas [except cabbages, head] | 0.5 |
| Cabbages, head | T0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Isofetamid | |
| Permitted residue: Isofetamid | |
| Berries and other small fruits [except grapes] | 5 |
| Poultry eggs | *0.02 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.02 |
| Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) | *0.02 |
| Milks | *0.02 |
| Milk fats | *0.02 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.02 |
| Poultry meat (in the fat) | *0.02 |
| Agvet chemical: Metalaxyl | |
| Permitted residue: Metalaxyl | |
| Parsley | T0.3 |
[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 | |
| Adzuki bean (dry) | *0.002 |
| Avocado | 0.05 |
| Blackberries | 0.1 |
| Blueberries | *0.02 |
| Bulb vegetables | 0.05 |
| Common bean (dry) (navy bean) | *0.002 |
| Cucumber | 0.05 |
| Custard apple | *0.01 |
| Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except mushrooms, sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)] | 0.1 |
| Litchi | 0.05 |
| Mung bean (dry) | *0.002 |
| Mushrooms | 0.05 |
| Papaya (pawpaw) | 0.1 |
| Passionfruit | 0.2 |
| Peas | 0.5 |
| Raspberries, red, black | 0.1 |
| Root and tuber vegetables | *0.01 |
| Squash, summer | 0.05 |
| Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob) | 0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Bifenthrin | |
| Permitted residue: Bifenthrin | |
| Leafy vegetables [except chervil; mizuna; rucola (rocket)] | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Bupirimate | |
| Permitted residue: Bupirimate | |
| Egg plant | 1 |
| Agvet chemical: Carfentrazone-ethyl | |
| Permitted residue: Carfentrazone-ethyl | |
| Berries and other small fruits [except grapes] | *0.05 |
| Agvet chemical: Clofentezine | |
| Permitted residue: Clofentezine | |
| Almonds | 0.5 |
| Tomato | 0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Cyprodinil | |
| Permitted residue: Cyprodinil | |
| Bulb vegetables [except fennel, bulb; onion, bulb] | 3 |
| Chives | 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 | |
| Bulb vegetables [except fennel, bulb; onion, bulb] | 3 |
| Chestnuts | 1 |
| Chives | 3 |
| Pineapple | 5 |
| Agvet chemical: Metsulfuron-methyl | |
| Permitted residue: Metsulfuron-methyl | |
| Mung bean (dry) | 0.2 |
| Agvet chemical: Phosphorous acid | |
| Permitted residue: Phosphorous acid | |
| Basil | T300 |
| Coriander (leaves, roots, stems) | T300 |
| Fennel, leaf | T300 |
| Parsley | T300 |
| Agvet chemical: Tolclofos-methyl | |
| Permitted residue: Tolclofos-methyl | |
| Lettuce, head | *0.01 |
| Lettuce, leaf | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Triadimenol | |
| Permitted residue: Triadimenol | |
| Anise myrtle leaves (dried) | 0.05 |
| Lemon myrtle leaves (dried) | 0.05 |
| Parsnip | 0.2 |
| Radish | 0.2 |
| Riberry | 0.3 |
| Swede | 0.2 |
| Turnip, garden | 0.2 |
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