Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20–maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2019 (Cth)

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Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20—Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument
No. APVMA 3, 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 First day of May 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 3, 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

  1. 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
Brassica leafy vegetables [except mizuna] 2
Bulb vegetables [except fennel, bulb; onion, bulb] 2
Chard (silverbeet) T3
Chervil T50
Fennel, bulb T0.1
Lettuce, head 15
Lettuce, leaf 15
Mizuna T50
Rucola (rocket) T50
Agvet chemical: Cyproconazole
Permitted residue: Cyproconazole, sum of isomers
Pulses T0.07
Agvet chemical: Fenoxycarb
Permitted residue: Fenoxycarb
Olives T1
Agvet chemical: Fenvalerate
Permitted residue: Fenvalerate, sum of isomers
Olives T1
Olive oil, refined T7

[1.2]           inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin
Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin
Bulb vegetables [except onion, bulb] 5
Leafy vegetables 15
Onion, bulb 0.2
Agvet chemical: Cyproconazole
Permitted residue: Cyproconazole, sum of isomers
Chick-pea (dry) 0.03
Lentil (dry) 0.03
Pulses [except chickpea (dry); lentil (dry)] T0.07
Agvet chemical: Fenoxycarb
Permitted residue: Fenoxycarb
All other foods except animal food commodities 0.1
Olives for oil production 2
Table Olives 2
Agvet chemical: Fenvalerate
Permitted residue: Fenvalerate, sum of isomers
Olives for oil production T1
Olive oil, crude T5
Table olives T1
Agvet chemical: Fipronil
Permitted residue: 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)
Carrot T0.05
Agvet chemical: Florpyrauxifen-benzyl
Permitted residue: Sum of florpyrauxifen-benzyl and the XDE-848 acid metabolite [4-amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)-5-fluoropyridine-2-carboxylic acid] expressed as florpyrauxifen-benzyl
Sorghum T*0.02
Agvet chemical: Thiabendazole

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Thiabendazole

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of thiabendazole and 5-hydroxylthiabendazole, expressed as thiabendazole

Taro T5

[1.3]           omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting

Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin
Permitted residue: Azoxystrobin
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas 1
Agvet chemical: Bifenthrin
Permitted residue: Bifenthrin
Common bean (pods and/or immature seeds) 0.7
Cucumber 0.5
Pineapple *0.01
Agvet chemical: Fenoxycarb
Permitted residue: Fenoxycarb
Olive oil, virgin 7
Agvet chemical: Phosphorous acid
Permitted residue: Phosphorous acid
Avocado 500
Tree nuts 3000
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