Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code Standard 1.4.2 Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 12, 2012 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 12, 2012
I, Allen Bryce, Program Manager, Veterinary Medicines Program and delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority for the relevant purposes pursuant to 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.
Allen Bryce
Program Manager
Veterinary Medicines Program
Dated this thirteenth day of December 2012
Part 1 Preliminary
Name of Instrument
This Instrument is the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument
No. APVMA 12, 2012.
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 25 of
18th December 2012.
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.
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[1].
[1] Note An amendment history from 20 December 2000 appears at the beginning of the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code.
Part 2 Variations to Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits
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
Variations
(1)The Principal Instrument is varied by:
(a)inserting in Schedule 1 –
| Sedaxane | |
| Sedaxane, sum of isomers | |
| Cereal grains | *0.01 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.01 |
| Milks | *0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat | *0.01 |
(b) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Difenoconazole | |
| Difenoconazole | |
| Barley | *0.01 |
| Wheat | *0.01 |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Barley | *0.01 |
| Wheat | *0.01 |
(c) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Difenoconazole | |
| Difenoconazole | |
| Cereal grains | *0.01 |
| Diquat | |
| Diquat cation | |
| Anise myrtle leaves | T0.5 |
| Lemon myrtle leaves | T0.5 |
| Native pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata) leaves | T0.5 |
| Tea, green, black | T0.5 |
| Fluazifop-butyl | |
| Fluazifop-butyl | |
| Date | T0.2 |
| Tea, green, black | T50 |
| Glufosinate and Glufosinate-ammonium | |
| Sum of glufosinate-ammonium, N-acetyl glufosinate and 3-[hydroxy(methyl)-phosphinoyl] propionic acid, expressed as glufosinate (free acid) | |
| Date | T0.1 |
| Lemon myrtle | T20 |
| Native foods [except lemon myrtle] | T0.1 |
| Tea, green, black | T20 |
| Glyphosate | |
| Sum of glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate | |
| Date | T2 |
| Lemon myrtle | T20 |
| Native foods [except lemon myrtle] | T2 |
| Metalayl | |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Cereal grains | *0.1 |
| Paraquat | |
| Paraquat cation | |
| Anise myrtle leaves | T0.5 |
| Lemon myrtle leaves | T0.5 |
| Native pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata) leaves | T0.5 |
| Tea, green, black | T0.5 |
| Pendimethalin | |
| Pendimethalin | |
| Date | T*0.05 |
| Pyriproxyfen | |
| Pyriproxyfen | |
| Lettuce, leaf | 5 |
| Sweet potato | *0.05 |
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