Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 9, 2015 (Cth)

Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 9, 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 ninth day of October 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 9, 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 22 of
3 November 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; and

Principal 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 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –

Methomyl
Methomyl
Beetroot	1
Cassava	T1
Potato	1
Radish	T1
Swede	T1
Sweet potato	T1
Taro	T1
Turnip, garden	T1
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
Garlic	T0.5
Leafy vegetables [except brassica leafy vegetables; lettuce, head]	5
Onion, bulb	0.5

(b)           inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –

Glufosinate and Glufosinate ammonium
Sum of glufosinate-ammonium, N-acetyl glufosinate and 3-[hydroxy(methyl)-phosphinoyl] propionic acid, expressed as glufosinate (free acid)
Common bean (pods and immature seeds)	T*0.05
Methomyl
Methomyl
Ginger, Japanese	T2
Onion, Chinese	T1
Root and tuber vegetables	1
Methoxyfenozide
Methoxyfenozide
Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap)	T3
Quizalofop-ethyl
Sum of quizalofop-ethyl and quizalofop acid and other esters, expressed as quizalofop-ethyl
Quinoa	T*0.02
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
Bulb vegetables	0.5
Herbs	15
Leafy vegetables [except brassica leafy vegetables; lettuce, head; lettuce, leaf]	5
Lettuce, leaf	15
Rhubarb	5

(c)           omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –

Fenpyrazamine
Fenpyrazamine
Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas)	10
Iprodione
Iprodione
Pistachio nut	T0.2
Methomyl
Methomyl
Chard	2
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
Lettuce, head	7