Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2015
I, Rajumati Bhula, 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.
Rajumati Bhula
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this Sixth day of August 2015
Part 1 Preliminary
1 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, 2015.
2 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 16 of
11 August 2015.
3 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.
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 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
5 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
1 Variations
(1)The Principal Instrument is varied by:
(a) omitting from Schedule 1 the chemical residue definition for Fluxapyroxad and substituting the following chemical residue definition-
Fluxapyroxad
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1 –
Bixafen
Commodities of plant origin: Bixafen
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
Barley
T0.3
Eggs
T*0.02
Edible offal (mammalian)
T1
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
T0.3
Milks
T*0.02
Poultry, edible offal of
T*0.02
Poultry meat (in the fat)
T*0.02
Pulses
T0.1
Rape seed
T*0.01
Wheat
T0.5
(c) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Anise myrtle leaves (dried)
T3
Lemon myrtle leaves (dried)
T3
Bifenazate
Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate
Eggs
*0.01
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits
1
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except mushrooms; sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)]
1
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01
Poultry meat
*0.01
Cyprodinil
Cyprodinil
Bulb vegetables [except fennel, bulb; garlic; onion, bulb]
T3
Chives
T3
Difenoconazole
Difenoconazole
Anise myrtle (dried)
T10
Lemon myrtle leaves (dried)
T10
Riberries
T1
Fludioxonil
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of fludioxonil and oxidisable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil
Commodities of plant origin: Fludioxonil
Bulb vegetables [except fennel, bulb; garlic; onion, bulb]
T3
Chives
T3
Dewberries (including loganberry) [except boysenberry]
T5
Prothioconazole
Commodities of plant origin: Sum of prothioconazole and prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of prothioconazole, prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), prothioconazole-3-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol) and prothioconazole-4-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole
Pulses
T0.1
Tebuconazole
Tebuconazole
Anise myrtle leaves (dried)
T5
Lemon myrtle leaves (dried)
T5
(d) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Anise myrtle leaves
T100
Lemon myrtle leaves
T100
Bifenazate
Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate
Bitter melon
T0.5
Cucumber
T0.5
Egg plant
T0.1
Melons, except watermelon
T0.3
Peppers
T0.5
Sinkwa or Sinkwa towel gourd
T0.5
Squash, Summer
T0.5
Tomato
T1
Watermelon
T0.3
Fludioxonil
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of fludioxonil and oxidisable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil
Commodities of plant origin: Fludioxonil
Dewberries (including boysenberry and loganberry)
T5
Prothioconazole
Commodities of plant origin: Sum of prothioconazole and prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of prothioconazole, prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), prothioconazole-3-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol) and prothioconazole-4-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole
Chick-pea (dry)
T0.7
Lentil (dry)
T0.7
(e) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Riberries
T1
Bifenazate
Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate
Papaya (pawpaw)
2
Strawberry
2
Fluxapyroxad
Commodities of plant origin: Fluxapyroxad
Commodities of animal origin for enforcement: Fluxapyroxad
Milk fats
0.1
Indoxacarb
Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer
Chia
T0.5
Triadimenol
Triadimenol
see also Triadimefon
Riberries
T0.3
