Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2014 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code
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Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2014
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 eleventh day of June 2014
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, 2014.
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 12 of
17 June 2014.
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 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 | |
| Peanut | T*0.002 |
| Chlorantraniliprole | |
| Plant commodities and animal commodities other than milk: Chlorantraniliprole Milk: Sum of chlorantraniliprole, 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[(methylamino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, and 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[[((hydroxymethyl)amino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, expressed as chlorantraniliprole | |
| Strawberry | T0.5 |
| Cypermethrin | |
| Cypermethrin, sum of isomers | |
| Onion, Welsh | T0.5 |
| 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) | |
| Celery | T0.3 |
| Lettuce, head | T0.1 |
| Lettuce, leaf | T0.1 |
| Flonicamid | |
| Flonicamid [N -(cyanomethyl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pyridinecarboxamide] and its metabolites TFNA [4-trifluoromethylnicotinic acid], TFNA-AM [4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide] TFNG [N -(4-trifluoromethylnicotinoyl)glycine] | |
| Cotton seed | T1 |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | T*0.02 |
| Eggs | T*0.02 |
| Meat (mammalian) | T*0.02 |
| Milks | T*0.02 |
| Poultry, edible offal of | T*0.02 |
| Poultry meat | T*0.02 |
| Haloxyfop | |
| Sum of haloxyfop, its esters and conjugates, expressed as haloxyfop | |
| Chia | T3 |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Herbs [except chives, thyme] | T0.3 |
| Kaffir lime leaves | T0.3 |
| Lemon grass | T0.3 |
| Lemon verbena (dry leaves) | T0.3 |
| Rose and dianthus (edible flowers) | T0.3 |
| Thyme | T0.5 |
| Turmeric, root | T0.1 |
Naphthalene acetic acid | |
| 1-Naphthelene acetic acid | |
| Rambutan | T*0.05 |
| Prometryn | |
| Prometryn | |
| Turmeric, root | T*0.01 |
| 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 | |
| Pulses | T*0.01 |
| 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 | |
| Kiwifruit | T0.1 |
| Tebuconazole | |
| Tebuconazole | |
| Radish | T0.3 |
| Radish leaves | T2 |
| Tolclofos-methyl | |
| Tolclofos-methyl | |
| Lettuce, head | T*0.01 |
| Lettuce, leaf | T*0.01 |
(b) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
| Metalaxyl | |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Dill | T0.3 |
| Parsley | 0.3 |
(c) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Azoxystrobin | |
| Lettuce, head | T15 |
| Lettuce, leaf | T15 |
| Bifenazate | |
| Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate | |
| Blackberries | T7 |
| Cloudberry | T7 |
| Dewberries (including boysenberry and loganberry) | T7 |
| Raspberries, red, black | T7 |
| Ethephon | |
| Ethephon | |
| Walnuts | T5 |
| Iprodione | |
| Iprodione | |
| Celeriac | T0.7 |
| Peppers | T3 |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Metalaxyl | |
| Peppers | T0.1 |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Pyrimethanil | |
| Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap) | T10 |
| Tebuconazole | |
| Tebuconazole | |
| Beetroot | T0.3 |
| Beetroot leaves | T2 |
| Chard (silver beet) | T2 |
| Chicory leaves | T2 |
| Endive | T2 |
| Spinach | T2 |
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