Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20–maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 4, 2019 (Cth)

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Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20—Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument
No. APVMA 4, 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 Eighth day of July 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 4, 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: Glyphosate
Permitted residue:  Sum of glyphosate, N-acetyl-glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate
Oilseed [except cotton seed; peanut; linseed; poppy seed; rape seed (canola); sunflower seed] T*0.01
Agvet chemical: Praziquantel
Permitted residue: Praziquantel
Tuna T*0.01

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

Agvet chemical: Bromoxynil
Permitted residue: Bromoxynil
All other foods except animal food commodities 0.1
Hempseed T*0.02
Agvet chemical: Chlorantraniliprole

Permitted residue—plant commodities and animal commodities other than milk:  Chlorantraniliprole

Permitted residue—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

Hempseed T1
Sesame seed T0.5
Agvet chemical: Diflubenzuron
Permitted residue—Diflubenzuron
Fish muscle T*0.002
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

Eggs *0.02
Poultry, Edible offal of *0.02
Poultry meat *0.02
Agvet chemical: Glyphosate
Permitted residue:  Sum of glyphosate, N-acetyl-glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate
Oilseed [except cotton seed; peanut; linseed; poppy seed; rape seed (canola); sesame seed; sunflower seed] T*0.01
Sesame seed T20
Agvet chemical: Haloxyfop
Permitted residue:  Sum of haloxyfop, its esters and conjugates, expressed as haloxyfop
Hempseed T0.1
Agvet chemical: Indoxacarb
Permitted residue:  Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer
Hempseed T*0.05
Agvet chemical: Mandestronin
Permitted residue: Mandestronin
Beans, except broad bean and soya bean 0.7
Edible offal (Mammalian) 0.02
Lettuce, Head 0.7
Lettuce, Leaf 7
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) 0.02
Milk *0.02
Beans, except broad bean and soya bean 0.7
Agvet chemical: Praziquantel
Permitted residue: Praziquantel
Fish muscle T*0.02
Agvet chemical: Pyrethrins
Permitted residue:  Sum of pyrethrins i and ii, Cinerinsi i and ii and jasmolins i and ii, determined after calibration by means of the International Pyrethrum Standard
All other foods except animal food commodities 0.2
Edible offal (Mammalian) *0.05
Eggs *0.05
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) *0.05
Milks *0.05
Poultry, Edible offal of *0.05
Poultry, Meat (in the fat) *0.05
Agvet chemical: Sethoxydim
Permitted residue:  Sum of sethoxydim and metabolites containing the 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)cyclohexene-3-one and 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)-5-hydroxycyclohexene-3-one moieties and their sulfoxides and sulfones, expressed as sethoxydim
Sesame seed T0.5
Agvet chemical: Trichlorfon
Permitted residue: Trichlorfon
All other foods except animal food commodities 0.05
Fish muscle T*0.01

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

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 0.5
Meat (mammalian) 0.1
Rape seed (canola seed) *0.01
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