Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2011 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code
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Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2011
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-third day of December 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 6, 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 1 of
17 January 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 |
| Pyroxasulfone | Commodities of plant origin: Sum of pyroxasulfone and (5-difluoromethoxy-1-methyl-3-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)methanesulfonic acid, expressed as pyroxasulfone Commodities of animal origin: 5-Difluoromethoxy-1-methyl-3-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid, expressed as pyroxasulfone |
(b)omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Maldison | |
| Maldison | |
| Blueberries | 0.5 |
| Fruit [except as otherwise listed under this chemical] | 2 |
| Trichlorfon | |
| Trichlorfon | |
| Banana | 0.2 |
| Fruit [except banana; dried fruits; peach] | 0.1 |
| Peach | 0.2 |
(c)inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Cyprodinil | |
| Cyprodinil | |
| Melons, except watermelon | T0.2 |
| Pistachio nut | T0.1 |
| Fludioxonil | |
| Commodities of animal origin: Sum of fludioxonil and oxidizable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil Commodities of plant origin: Fludioxonil | |
| Melons, except watermelon | T0.2 |
| Pistachio nut | T0.2 |
| Maldison | |
| Maldison | |
| Fruit [except citrus fruits; currant, black; dried fruits; grapes; pear; strawberry] | 2 |
| Metolachlor | |
| Metolachlor | |
| Potato | T*0.02 |
| Prosulfocarb | |
| Prosulfocarb | |
| Potato | T*0.01 |
| Trichlorfon | |
| Trichlorfon | |
| Achachairu | T3 |
| Assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – edible peel | T3 |
| Assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – inedible peel | T3 |
| Babaco | T3 |
| Berries and other small fruits | T2 |
| Fruit [except achachairu; assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – edible peel; assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – inedible peel; babaco; berries and other small fruits; dried fruits; loquat; medlar; miracle fruit; quince; rollinia; shaddock (pomelo); stone fruits] | T0.1 |
| Loquat | T3 |
| Medlar | T3 |
| Miracle fruit | T3 |
| Quince | T3 |
| Rollinia | T3 |
| Shaddock (pomelo) | T3 |
| Stone fruits | T3 |
(d)omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
| Captan | |
| Captan | |
| Tree nuts | 3 |
| Carbendazim | |
| Sum of carbendazim and 2-aminobenzimidazole, expressed as carbendazim | |
| Mushrooms | T5 |
| Pyroxasulfone | |
| Commodities of plant origin: (5-Difluoromethoxy-1-methyl-3-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)methanesulfonic acid, expressed as pyroxasulfone Commodities of animal origin: 5-Difluoromethoxy-1-methyl-3-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid, expressed as pyroxasulfone | |
| Cereal grains | *0.01 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.02 |
| Eggs | *0.02 |
| Meat (mammalian) | *0.02 |
| Milks | *0.002 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.02 |
| Poultry meat | *0.02 |
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