Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20–maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 7, 2018 (Cth)

Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code—Schedule 20—Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument
No. APVMA 7, 2018

I, Jason Lutze Executive Director, Scientific Assessment and Chemical Review 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 Twentieth day of September 2018

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 7, 2018.

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 No. APVMA 19 of 25 September 2018.

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]          inserting in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical: Metamitron
Permitted residue: Metamitron
Apple	0.01
Edible offal (Mammalian)	*0.05
Meat [mammalian]	*0.05
Milks	*0.05

[1.2]           omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs

Agvet chemical: Emamectin
Permitted residue:  Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Beetroot	T0.05
Egg plant	T0.1
Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head; lettuce, leaf; mizuna]	T0.5
Mizuna	T0.5
Parsnip	T0.05
Peppers, sweet	0.01
Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap)	T0.02
Radish	T0.05
Swede	T0.05
Tomato	0.01
Turnip, garden	T0.05

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

AgVet  chemical: Emamectin
Permitted residue: Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits	0.01
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except mushrooms and sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)]	0.1
Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head and lettuce, leaf]	0.3
Legume vegetables	0.1
Root and tuber vegetables [except potato]	*0.01

Agvet chemical: Flumioxazin
Permitted residue: Flumioxazin
Carrot	T*0.05

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

Agvet chemical: Acetamiprid

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Acetamiprid

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin:  Sum of acetamiprid and N-demethyl acetamiprid ((E)-N1-[(6-chloro-3-pyridyl)methyl]-N2-cyanoacetamidine), expressed as acetamiprid

Stone fruits [except cherries; plums]

1

Agvet chemical: Emamectin
Permitted residue: Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Strawberry	0.05

Etoxazole
Permitted residue: Etoxazole
Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap)	T*0.02
Agvet chemical: Propiconazole
Permitted residue: Propiconazole
Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap)	T*0.02
Agvet chemical: Sedaxane
Permitted residue: Sedaxane, sum of isomers
Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap)	T*0.02