Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2011 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code
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Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2011
I, Eva Bennet-Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, acting in accordance with my powers under subsection 32(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.
Eva Bennet-Jenkins
Chief Executive Officer
Dated this twenty-third day of September 2011
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 3, 2011.
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 19 of
27 September 2011.
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) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Phenmedipham | |
| Phenmedipham | |
| Chard (silver beet) | T0.2 |
| Chicory leaves | T0.2 |
| Endive | T0.2 |
| Lettuce, head | T0.2 |
| Lettuce, leaf | T0.2 |
| Spinach | T0.2 |
| Prothioconazole | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Sum of prothioconazole and prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole Commodities of animal origin: Sum of prothioconazole, prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), prothioconazole-3-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol) and prothioconazole-4-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole | |
| Barley | 0.3 |
| Wheat | 0.3 |
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Bromoxynil | |
| Bromoxynil | |
| Garlic | T0.1 |
| Carbendazim | |
| Sum of carbendazim and 2-aminobenzimidazole, expressed as carbendazim | |
| Garlic | T0.2 |
| Flupropanate | |
| Flupropanate | |
| Milks | 0.1 |
| Imidacloprid | |
| Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Garlic | T0.5 |
| Iprodione | |
| Iprodione | |
| Garlic | T0.3 |
| Methoxyfenozide | |
| Methoxyfenozide | |
| Persimmon, American | 1 |
| Persimmon, Japanese | 1 |
| Phenmedipham | |
| Phenmedipham | |
| Leafy vegetables | T1 |
| Prothioconazole | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Sum of prothioconazole and prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole Commodities of animal origin: Sum of prothioconazole, prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), prothioconazole-3-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol) and prothioconazole-4-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole | |
| Cereal grains | T0.3 |
| Quinoxyfen | |
| Quinoxyfen | |
| Chard (silver beet) | T3 |
| Trifloxystrobin | |
| Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)-methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid), expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents | |
| Beetroot | T0.2 |
(c) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
| Phenmedipham | |
| Phenmedipham | |
| Radicchio | T1 |
| Phosphorous acid | |
| Phosphorous acid | |
| Leafy vegetables | T150 |
| Thiabendazole | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Thiabendazole Commodities of animal origin: sum of thiabendazole and 5-hydroxythiabendazole, expressed as thiabendazole | |
| Sweet potato | 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 | T0.2 |
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