Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 5, 2012 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code
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Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 5, 2012
I, Rajumati Bhula, Program Manager, Pesticides 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.
Rajumati Bhula
Program Manager
Pesticides Program
Dated this twenty-fifth day of May 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 5, 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 11 of
5 June 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) omitting from Schedule 1 the chemical residue definitions for the chemicals appearing in Column 1 of the Table to this sub-item, substituting the chemical residue definition appearing in Column 2 –
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| Emamectin | Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b |
(b) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Glyphosate | |
| Sum of glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate | |
| Oilseed [except cotton seed; linseed; Rape seed (canola)] | T*0.1 |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Leafy vegetables | T5 |
(c) 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 | |
| Maize | T*0.01 |
| Cypermethrin | |
| Cypermethrin, sum of isomers | |
| Poppy seed | T*0.01 |
| Dichlobenil | |
| Dichlobenil | |
| Blueberries | T1 |
| Currants, black, red, white | T1 |
| Gooseberry | T1 |
| Raspberries, red, black | T1 |
| Emamectin | |
| Emamectin B1a, plus its 8,9-Z isomer and emamectin B1b, plus its 8,9-Z isomer | |
| Brassica leafy vegetables | T0.3 |
| Fenhexamid | |
| Fenhexamid | |
| Cucumber | T7 |
| Fipronil | |
| Sum of fipronil, the sulphenyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl) sulphenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), the sulphonyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl)sulphonyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), and the trifluoromethyl metabolite (5-amino-4-trifluoromethyl-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile) | |
| Poppy seed | *0.01 |
| Glyphosate | |
| Sum of glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate | |
| Oilseed [except cotton seed; linseed; rape seed (canola); sunflower seed] | T*0.1 |
| Sunflower seed | T20 |
| Imidacloprid | |
| Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Beetroot | T0.05 |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Citrus fruits | 7 |
| Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head; lettuce, leaf] | T5 |
| Lettuce, head | 20 |
| Lettuce, leaf | 20 |
| Spinetoram | |
| Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L | |
| Ginger, root | T0.02 |
| Ginger, Japanese | T1 |
| Leek | T0.2 |
| Onion, Welsh | T0.3 |
| Shallot | T0.3 |
| Spring onion | T0.3 |
| 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 |
(d) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
| Fenhexamid | |
| Fenhexamid | |
| Peppers, Sweet | T20 |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Ginger, root | 0.5 |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Peppers, Sweet | 1 |
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