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Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 2, 2014

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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)
7

 
 

 
(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