Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20–maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 2, 2019 (Cth)
Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20—Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument
No. APVMA 2, 2019
I, Jason Lutze, Executive Director, Risk Assessment Capability and delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, acting in accordance with my powers under 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.
Jason Lutze
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this twenty first day of February 2019
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Name of instrument
This instrument is the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20-maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 2, 2019.
2 Commencement
In accordance with subsection 82(8) of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991, this instrument commences on the day 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.
3 Object
The object of this instrument is for the APVMA to make variations to Schedule 20-Maximum residue limits in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code to include or change maximum residue limits pertaining to agricultural and veterinary chemical products.
4 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 Schedule 20 - Maximum residue limits in 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. Schedule 20 was published in the Food Standards Gazette FSC 96 on Thursday 10 April 2015 and was registered as a legislative instrument on 1 April 2015 (F2015L00468).
Part 2 Variations to Schedule 20—Maximum Residue Limits
5 Variations to Schedule 20
The Schedule to this instrument sets out the variations made to the Principal Instrument by this instrument.
Schedule
Variations to Schedule 20–Maximum residue limits
The table to section S20–3 in Schedule 20 is varied by
[1.1] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
| Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin | |
| Adzuki bean (dry) | T0.7 |
| Broad bean (dry) (fava bean) | T0.05 |
| Chick-pea (dry) | T0.5 |
| Common bean (dry) (navy bean) | T0.7 |
| Field Pea (dry) | T0.05 |
| Lentil (dry) | T0.5 |
| Lupin (dry) | T0.05 |
| Mung bean (dry) | T0.7 |
| Agvet chemical: Bixafen | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Bixafen Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of bixafen and N-(3′,4′-dichloro-5-fluorobiphenyl-2-yl)-3-(difluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide (bixafen-desmethyl), expressed as bixafen | |
| Pulses | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Fluensulfone | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of fluensulfone, 3,4,4-trifluorobut-3-ene-1-sulfonic acid (M-3627) and 5-chloro-thiazole-2-sulfonic acid (M-3625) | |
| Sweet potato | T1 |
| Agvet chemical: Imidacloprid | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid | |
| Assorted tropical and sub-tropical fruits – inedible peel [except banana] | T1 |
| Bergamot | T5 |
| Burnet, salad | T5 |
| Coriander, seed | T5 |
| Dill, seed | T5 |
| Fennel, bulb | T0.1 |
| Fennel, seed | T5 |
| Ginger, Japanese | T5 |
| Agvet chemical: Phosphorous acid | |
| Permitted residue: Phosphorous acid | |
| Root and tuber vegetables | T100 |
[1.2] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
| Agvet chemical: Amisulbrom | |
| Permitted residue: Amisulbrom | |
| All other foods except animal commodities | 0.02 |
| Potato | T0.3 |
| Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin | |
| Pulses | 0.3 |
| Agvet chemical: Bixafen | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Bixafen Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of bixafen and N-(3′,4′-dichloro-5-fluorobiphenyl-2-yl)-3-(difluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide (bixafen-desmethyl), expressed as bixafen | |
| Pulses [except lupin (dry)] | *0.01 |
| Lupin (dry) | T0.1 |
| Agvet chemical: Cyprodinil | |
| Permitted residue: Cyprodinil | |
| Bayberries | T3 |
| Bayberry, red | T3 |
| Agvet chemical: Diafenthiuron | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of diafenthiuron; N-[2,6-bis(1-methylethyl)- 4-phenoxyphenyl]-N'-(1,1-dimethylethyl)urea; and N-[2,6-bis(1-methylethyl)-4-phenoxyphenyl]- N'-(1,1-dimethylethyl)carbodiimide, expressed as diafenthiuron | |
| All other foods except animal commodities | 0.01 |
| Rape seed (canola) | *0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Dinotefuran | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Dinotefuran Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of Dinotefuran and 1-methyl-3-(tetrahydro-3-furylmethyl) urea (UF) expressed as dinotefuran | |
| All other foods except animal commodities | 0.02 |
| Mung bean (dry) | 0.3 |
| Agvet chemical: Ethephon | |
| Permitted residue: Ethephon | |
| All other foods except animal commodities | 0.1 |
| Blueberries | T10 |
| Agvet chemical: Fludioxonil | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: sum of fludioxonil and oxidizable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: fludioxonil | |
| Bayberries | T2 |
| Bayberry, red | T2 |
| Agvet chemical: Indoxacarb | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of Indoxacarb and it’s R-isomer | |
| Bayberry, red | T1 |
| Agvet chemical: Phosphine | |
| Permitted residue: All phosphides, expressed as hydrogen phosphide (phosphine) | |
| Garlic | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Phosphorous acid | |
| Permitted residue: Phosphorous acid | |
| Root and tuber vegetables (except potato) | T100 |
| Potato | T700 |
| Agvet chemical: Praziquantel | |
| Permitted residue: Praziquantel | |
| Tuna | T*0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Spinetoram | |
| Permitted residue: Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L | |
| Bayberry, red | T0.5 |
| Fig | T0.1 |
| Agvet chemical: Tebuconazole | |
| Permitted residue: Tebuconazole | |
| Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob) | T0.7 |
[1.3] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
| Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin | |
| Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin | |
| Rape seed (canola) | 0.01 |
| Agvet chemical: Bifenthrin | |
| Permitted residue: Bifenthrin | |
| Cherries | T3 |
| Agvet chemical: Clothianidin | |
| Permitted residue: Clothianidin | |
| Almonds | T0.05 |
| Citrus fruits | 0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Fluopyram | |
| Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Fluopyram Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of fluopyram and 2-(trifluoromethyl)-benzamide, expressed as fluopyram | |
| Edible offal (mammalian) | 0.3 |
| Pome fruits | 1 |
| Agvet chemical: Sulfoxaflor | |
| Permitted residue: Sulfoxaflor | |
| Cherimoya | T0.5 |
| Custard apple | T0.5 |
| Ilama | T0.5 |
| Soursop | T0.5 |
| Sugar apple | T0.5 |
| Agvet chemical: Tebuconazole | |
| Permitted residue: Tebuconazole | |
| Pulses [except soya bean (dry)] | 1 |
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