Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 1, 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 twenty first day of January 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 1, 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 2 of
27 January 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) inserting in Schedule 1 –
Fluopyram
Commodities of plant origin: Fluopyram
Commodities of animal origin for enforcement: Sum of fluopyram and 2-(trifluoromethyl)-benzamide, expressed as fluopyram
Commodities of animal origin for dietary exposure assessment: Sum of fluopyram, 2-(trifluoromethyl) benzamide and the combined residues of N-{(E)-2-[3-chloro-5-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-2-yl]ethenyl}-2-(trifluoromethyl) benzamide and N-{(Z)-2-[3-chloro-5-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-2-yl]ethenyl}-2-(trifluoromethyl) benzamide, all expressed as fluopyram
Almonds
T0.05
Banana
T0.1
Cherries
T5
Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas)
T15
Edible offal (mammalian)
T0.7
Meat (mammalian)
T0.05
Milks
T0.2
Pome fruits
T0.5
Stone fruits [except cherries]
T2
Table-grapes
T2
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Azamethiphos
Azamethiphos
Edible offal (mammalian)
*0.05
Meat (mammalian)
*0.05
Milks
*0.05
Chlorothalonil
Commodities of plant origin: Chlorothalonil
Commodities of animal origin: 4-hydroxy-2,5,6-trichloroisophthalonitrile metabolite, expressed as chlorothalonil
Lettuce, head
T10
Lettuce, leaf
T10
Mango
T1
Clothianidin
Clothianidin
Cherimoya
T2
Custard apple
T2
Ilama
T2
Olives
T0.5
Soursop
T2
Sugar apple
T2
Emamectin
Sum of Emamectin B1a and Emamectin B1b
Beetroot
T0.05
Leafy vegetables [except lettuce head; lettuce leaf; mizuna]
T0.5
Parsnip
T0.05
Radish
T0.05
Swede
T0.05
Turnip, garden
T0.05
Ethephon
Ethephon
Banana
T*0.05
Methoxyfenozide
Methoxyfenozide
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)]
3
Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)
T0.02
Pirimicarb
Sum of pirimicarb, demethyl-pirimicarb and the N-formyl-(methylamino) analogue (demethylformamido-pirimicarb), expressed as pirimicarb
Leafy vegetables [except mizuna]
T30
Propiconazole
Propiconazole
Citrus fruits
T7
Gai lum
T1
Proquinazid
Commodities of plant origin: Proquinazid
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of proquinazid and 3-(6-iodo-4-oxo-3-propyl-3H-quinazolin-2-yloxy)propionic acid, expressed as proquinazid
Peppers, Sweet
0.2
Tomato
0.3
Triadimenol
Triadimenol
see also Triadimefon
Chives
T3
Leek
T3
Onion, Chinese
T3
Onion, Welsh
T3
Shallot
T3
Spring onion
T3
Trifloxystrobin
Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)-methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid), expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents
Almonds
T0.05
Beetroot leaves
T10
(c) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Emamectin
Sum of Emamectin B1a and Emamectin B1b
Brassica leafy vegetables
T0.3
Chervil
T0.05
Rucola (rocket)
T0.05
Methoxyfenozide
Methoxyfenozide
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits
3
Pirimicarb
Sum of pirimicarb, demethyl-pirimicarb and the N-formyl-(methylamino) analogue (demethylformamido-pirimicarb), expressed as pirimicarb
Chervil
T20
Leafy vegetables [except chervil; mizuna; rucola (rocket)]
T7
Rucola (rocket)
T20
Propiconazole
Propiconazole
Brassica leafy vegetables
T0.7
(d) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Bifenthrin
Bifenthrin
Chervil
T0.5
Herbs
T0.5
Mizuna
T0.5
Rucola (rocket)
T0.5
Diquat
Diquat cation
Poppy seed
*0.01
Dithiocarbamates
Total dithiocarbamates, determined as carbon disulphide evolved during acid digestion and expressed as milligrams of carbon disulphide per kilogram of food
Strawberry
5
Emamectin
Sum of Emamectin B1a and Emamectin B1b
Mizuna
T0.5
Etoxazole
Etoxazole
Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap)
T0.1
Halauxifen-methyl
Commodities of plant origin: Halauxifen-methyl
Commodities of animal origin: 4-Amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-pyridine-2-carboxylic acid, expressed as halauxifen-methyl
Cereal grains
*0.01
Edible offal (mammalian)
0.01
Eggs
*0.01
Meat (mammalian)
*0.01
Milks
*0.01
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01
Poultry meat
*0.01
Methomyl
Methomyl
Onion, Welsh
T2
Shallot
T2
Spring onion
T2
Pirimicarb
Sum of pirimicarb, demethyl-pirimicarb and the N-formyl-(methylamino) analogue (demethylformamido-pirimicarb), expressed as pirimicarb
Mizuna
T30
Propiconazole
Propiconazole
Chicory leaves
T1
Endive
T1
Radicchio
T1
Trifloxystrobin
Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)-methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid), expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents
Beetroot
T0.5
Stone fruits
T5