Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 2, 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 twentieth day of February 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 2, 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 4 of
25 February 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 Schedule 1 –
Cyantraniliprole
Commodities of plant origin: Cyantraniliprole
Commodities of animal origin for enforcement: Cyantraniliprole
Commodities of animal origin for dietary exposure assessment: Sum of cyantraniliprole and 2-[3-bromo-1-(3-chloropyridin-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]-3,8-dimethyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinazoline-6-carbonitrile (IN-J9Z38), 2-[3-bromo-1-(3-chloropyridin-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]-8-methyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinazoline-6-carbonitrile (IN-MLA84), 3-bromo-1-(3-chloropyridin-2-yl)-N-{4-cyano-2-[(hydroxymethyl)carbamoyl]-6-methylphenyl}-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide (IN-MYX98) and 3-bromo-1-(3-chloropyridin-2-yl)-N-[4-cyano-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-(methylcarbamoyl)phenyl]-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide (IN-N7B69), expressed as cyantraniliprole
All other foods
0.05
Cotton seed
*0.01
Edible offal (mammalian)
*0.01
Eggs
*0.01
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
*0.01
Milk fats
*0.01
Milks
*0.01
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01
Poultry meat (in the fat)
*0.01
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Emamectin
Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Celery
T0.2
Egg plant
T0.1
Etoxazole
Etoxazole
Custard apple
T0.1
Fluazifop-p-butyl
Sum of fluazifop-butyl, fluazifop and their conjugates, expressed as fluazifop
Galangal, rhizomes
0.05
Lotus root
T3
Onion, Chinese
0.05
Root and tuber vegetables [except potato; sweet potato; taro; yam bean; yams]
T1
Taro
T3
Turmeric, root
0.05
Water chestnut
T3
Yam bean
T3
Yams
T0.1
Fosetyl
Fosetyl
Leafy vegetables [except rucola (rocket); spinach]
T0.2
Rucola (rocket)
T0.7
Spinach
T0.7
Propyzamide
Propyzamide
Artichoke, globe
T*0.02
Tebuconazole
Tebuconazole
Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas)
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(c) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Fluazifop-p-butyl
Sum of fluazifop-butyl, fluazifop and their conjugates, expressed as fluazifop
Root and tuber vegetables [except potato; sweet potato]
T1
Fosetyl
Fosetyl
Leafy vegetables
T0.2
Tebuconazole
Tebuconazole
Dried grapes
5
(d) 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
Lettuce, head
T20
Lettuce, leaf
T20
Chlorthal-dimethyl
Chlorthal-dimethyl
Lettuce, head
2
Lettuce, leaf
2
Imidacloprid
Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid
Rhubarb
T0.2
Sethoxydim
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
Peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds)
T2
Tebuconazole
Tebuconazole
Grapes
5