Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code Standard 1.4.2 Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2013 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code
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Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2013
I, Rajumati Bhula, Executive Director, 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
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this thirty-first day of October 2013
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, 2013.
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
5 November 2013.
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.
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 –
| Sulfoxaflor | |
| Sulfoxaflor | |
| Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, Head cabbages, Flowerhead brassicas [except cauliflower] | 3 |
| Cauliflower | 0.1 |
| Cereal grains | *0.01 |
| Cherries | 3 |
| Citrus fruits | 0.7 |
| Cotton seed | 0.3 |
| Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas) | 10 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | 0.5 |
| Eggs | *0.01 |
| Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits | 0.5 |
| Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits | 1 |
| Grapes [except wine grapes] | 3 |
| Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head] | 5 |
| Lettuce, head | 1 |
| Meat (mammalian) | 0.2 |
| Milks | 0.1 |
| Pome fruits | 0.5 |
| Potato | 0.01 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
| Poultry meat | *0.01 |
| Rape seed (canola) | *0.01 |
| Root and tuber vegetables [except potato] | 0.05 |
| Soya bean (dry) | 0.3 |
| Stone fruits [except cherries] | 1 |
| Wine grapes | *0.01 |
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Acetamiprid | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Acetamiprid Commodities of animal origin: Sum of acetamiprid and N-demethyl acetamiprid ((E)-N1-[(6-chloro-3- pyridyl)methyl]-N2-cyanoacetamidine), expressed as acetamiprid | |
| Date | T5 |
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Brassica leafy vegetables [except mizuna] | T10 |
| Mexican tarragon | T50 |
| Mizuna | T50 |
| Tea, green, black | T20 |
| Boscalid | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Boscalid Commodities of animal origin: Sum of boscalid, 2- chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide and the glucuronide conjugate of 2- chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide, expressed as boscalid equivalents | |
| Cherries | T3 |
| Stone fruits [except cherries] | 1.7 |
| Clothianidin | |
| Clothianidin | |
| Apricot | T2 |
| Etoxazole | |
| Etoxazole | |
| Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits | T0.1 |
| Ivy gourd | T0.1 |
| Pointed gourd | T0.1 |
| Imidacloprid | |
| Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Date | T1 |
| Hazelnuts | T*0.01 |
| Lemon balm | T5 |
| Teas (tea and herb teas) | T10 |
| Methoxyfenozide | |
| Methoxyfenozide | |
| Cucumber | T2 |
| Lettuce, leaf | T30 |
| Paclobutrazol | |
| Paclobutrazol | |
| Broccoli | T*0.01 |
| Prochloraz | |
| Sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the 2,4,6-trichlorophenol moiety, expressed as prochloraz | |
| Custard apple | T2 |
| 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 | |
| Pome fruits | T0.5 |
| Terbuthylazine | |
| Terbuthylazine | |
| Cereal grains [except maize] | *0.01 |
| Trifloxystrobin | |
| Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)- methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)- ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid), expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents | |
| Tomato | 0.7 |
(c) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Brassica leafy vegetables | T10 |
| Boscalid | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Boscalid Commodities of animal origin: Sum of boscalid, 2- chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide and the glucuronide conjugate of 2- chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide, expressed as boscalid equivalents | |
| Stone fruits | 1.7 |
| Terbuthylazine | |
| Terbuthylazine | |
| Barley | T*0.01 |
| Oats | T*0.01 |
| Sorghum | *0.01 |
| Wheat | T*0.01 |
(d) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
| Abamectin | |
| Sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1a, and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1b | |
| Lettuce, leaf | T1 |
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Bergamot | T50 |
| Burnet, Salad | T50 |
| Chervil | T50 |
| Coriander (leaves, stem, roots) | T50 |
| Coriander, seed | T50 |
| Dill, seed | T50 |
| Fennel, seed | T50 |
| Herbs [except as otherwise listed under this chemical] | T50 |
| Kaffir lime leaves | T50 |
| Lemon grass | T50 |
| Lemon verbena (dry leaves) | T50 |
| Rose and dianthus (edible flowers) | T50 |
| Rucola (rocket) | T50 |
| Imidacloprid | |
| Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Ginger, root | T0.3 |
| Indoxacarb | |
| Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer | |
| Tomato | T0.5 |
| Linuron | |
| Sum of linuron plus 3,4-dichloroaniline, expressed as linuron | |
| Leek | *0.02 |
| Pyraclostrobin | |
| Commodities of plant origin: Pyraclostrobin Commodities of animal origin: Sum of pyraclostrobin and metabolites hydrolysed to 1-(4-chloro-phenyl)- 1H-pyrazol-3-ol, expressed as pyraclostrobin | |
| Passion fruit | T1 |
| Trifloxystrobin | |
| Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)- methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)- ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid), expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents | |
| Peppers, Sweet | T0.5 |
| Uniconazole-p | |
| Sum of uniconazole-p and its Z-isomer expressed as uniconazole-p | |
| Custard apple | T*0.01 |
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