Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 10, 2015 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 10, 2015
I, Rajumati Bhula, 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.
Rajumati Bhula
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this Twenty fourth day of November 2015
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Name of Instrument
This Instrument is the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument
No. APVMA 10, 2015.
2 Commencement
Pursuant to subsection 82(8) of the Food Standards Australia New
Zealand Act 1991, this Amendment Instrument commences on the day a
copy of 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 24 of
1 December 2015.
3 Object
The object of this Instrument is for the APVMA to make variations to Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits of 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; andPrincipal Instrument means Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits
of 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. The whole of the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code (including Standard 1.4.2) was further published in Gazette P 30 of 20 December 2000.
Part 2 Variations to Standard 1.4.2 —
Maximum Residue Limits
5 Variations to Standard 1.4.2
The Schedule to this Instrument sets out the variations made to the Principal Instrument by this Amendment Instrument.
Schedule
Variations to Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits
1 Variations
(1)The Principal Instrument is varied by:
(a) omitting from Schedule 1 all entries for the following chemicals–
Dinotefuran
(b) inserting in Schedule 1 –
| Dinotefuran | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Dinotefuran Commodities of animal origin: Sum of Dinotefuran and 1-methyl-3-(tetrahydro-3-furylmethyl) urea (UF) expressed as dinotefuran | |
| Cotton seed | 0.1 |
| Cranberry | 0.2 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.02 |
| Eggs | *0.02 |
| Grapes | 0.9 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.02 |
| Milks | *0.02 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.02 |
| Poultry meat | *0.02 |
(c) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Bifenazate | |
| Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate | |
| Peas | T0.5 |
| Phosphorous acid | |
| Phosphorous acid | |
| Berries and other small fruits [except riberries] | T50 |
(d) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Abamectin | |
| Sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1a, and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1b | |
| Pome fruits [except apple; pear] | T0.01 |
| Bifenazate | |
| Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate | |
| Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap) | T1 |
| Cyflufenamid | |
| Cyflufenamid | |
| Strawberry | T*0.01 |
| Emamectin | |
| Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b | |
| Chia | T0.05 |
| Fluazifop-p-butyl | |
| Sum of fluazifop-butyl, fluazifop and their conjugates, expressed as fluazifop | |
| Olives | T0.05 |
| Phosphorous acid | |
| Phosphorous acid | |
| Berries and other small fruit [except riberries; strawberry] | T50 |
| Strawberry | T500 |
| Pyraclostrobin | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Pyraclostrobin Commodities of animal origin: Sum of pyraclostrobin and metabolites hydrolysed to 1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-ol, expressed as pyraclostrobin | |
| Chick-pea (dry) | T0.5 |
| Lentil (dry) | T0.5 |
| Sethoxydim | |
| 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 | |
| Quinoa | T0.5 |
| Spirotetramat | |
| Sum of spirotetramat, and cis-3-(2,5-dimethylphenyl)-4-hydroxy-8-methoxy-1-azaspiro[4.5]dec-3-en-2-one, expressed as spirotetramat | |
| Chia | T1 |
(e) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
| Cypermethrin | |
| Cypermethrin, sum of isomers | |
| Poppy seed | T*0.05 |
| Dimethoate | |
| Sum of dimethoate and omethoate, expressed as dimethoate see also Omethoate | |
| Oilseed [except peanut] | 0.2 |
| Imidacloprid | |
| Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Peanut | *0.05 |
Omethoate | |
| Omethoate see also Dimethoate | |
| Oilseed | 0.05 |
| Thiamethoxam | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Thiamethoxam Commodities of animal origin: Sum of thiamethoxam and N-(2-chloro-thiazol-5-ylmethyl)-N′-methyl-N′-nitro-guanidine, expressed as thiamethoxam | |
| Mango | 0.07 |
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