Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2014
I, Rajumati Bhula, Executive Director, Pesticides Program and delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority for the relevant purposes pursuant to 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-third day of January 2014
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, 2014.
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
28 January 2014.
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 alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Abamectin
Sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1a, and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1b
Rhubarb
T0.05
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
Egg plant
T0.1
Peppers
T0.5
Sinkwa or Sinkwa towel gourd
T0.5
Squash, Summer
T0.5
Yard-long bean (pods)
T1
Dithiocarbamates
Total dithiocarbamates, determined as carbon disulphide evolved during acid digestion and expressed as milligrams of carbon disulphide per kilogram of food
Avocado
7
Etoxazole
Etoxazole
Papaya
T0.1
Fenhexamid
Fenhexamid
Peppers
T30
Tomato
T2
Spinetoram
Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L
Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)
*0.01
Triclopyr
Triclopyr
Litchi
0.1
(b) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Bifenazate
Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate
Peppers, Sweet
T2
Fenhexamid
Fenhexamid
Peppers, Sweet
T20
(c) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Bifenazate
Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate
Tomato
T1
Boscalid
Commodities of plant origin: Boscalid
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of boscalid, 2-chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide and the glucuronide conjugate of 2-chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide, expressed as boscalid equivalents
Blueberries
T15
Dithiocarbamates
Total dithiocarbamates, determined as carbon disulphide evolved during acid digestion and expressed as milligrams of carbon disulphide per kilogram of food
Mango
7
Ethephon
Ethephon
Mango
T*0.02
Fenhexamid
Fenhexamid
Cucumber
T10
Lettuce, head
T50
Lettuce, leaf
T50
Fipronil
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)
Honey
0.01
Ioxynil
Ioxynil
Onion, Welsh
T10
Shallot
T10
Spring onion
T10
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
Edible offal (mammalian)
0.2
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
0.02
Peanut
*0.02
Pyraclostrobin
Commodities of plant origin: Pyraclostrobin
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of pyraclostrobin and metabolites hydrolysed to 1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-ol, expressed as pyraclostrobin
Blueberries
T5
Spinetoram
Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L
Edible offal (mammalian)
0.2
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
2
Triclopyr
Triclopyr
Citrus fruits
0.2
