Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 3, 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 fourteenth day of April 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 3, 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 8 of
22 April 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 –
Aminoethoxyvinylglycine
Aminoethoxyvinylglycine
Walnuts
*0.05
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)
T0.5
Captan
Captan
Cucumber
T5
Lettuce, leaf
T7
Peppers, Chili
T7
Peppers, Sweet
T7
Chlorantraniliprole
Plant commodities and animal commodities other than milk: Chlorantraniliprole
Milk: Sum of chlorantraniliprole, 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[(methylamino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, and 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[[((hydroxymethyl)amino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, expressed as chlorantraniliprole
Adzuki bean (dry)
T0.5
Chlorfenapyr
Chlorfenapyr
Brassica leafy vegetables [except chinese cabbage]
T3
Cyprodinil
Cyprodinil
Common bean (pods and/or immature seeds)
0.7
Leafy vegetables
10
Peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds)
0.5
Dimethomorph
Sum of E and Z isomers of dimethomorph
Onion, Welsh
2
Fenhexamid
Fenhexamid
Peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds)
T5
Fludioxonil
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of fludioxonil and oxidisable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil
Commodities of plant origin: Fludioxonil
Common bean (pods and/or immature seeds)
0.7
Leafy vegetables
10
Peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds)
0.5
Fosetyl
Fosetyl
Stone fruits [except cherries; peach]
T1
Methoxyfenozide
Methoxyfenozide
Lettuce, head
T30
Phosphorous acid
Phosphorous acid
Peach
100
Stone fruits [except cherries; peach]
T100
Spirotetramat
Sum of spirotetramat, and cis-3-(2,5-dimethylphenyl)-4-hydroxy-8-methoxy-1-azaspiro[4.5]dec-3-en-2-one, expressed as spirotetramat
Banana
T0.5
(b) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Chlorfenapyr
Chlorfenapyr
Chervil
T5
Coriander (leaves, stem, roots)
T5
Herbs
T5
Cyprodinil
Cyprodinil
Lettuce, head
T10
Lettuce, leaf
T10
Peas
T2
Fludioxonil
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of fludioxonil and oxidisable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil
Commodities of plant origin: Fludioxonil
Lettuce, head
T10
Lettuce, leaf
T10
Peas
T2
(c) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Chlorfenapyr
Chlorfenapyr
Chinese cabbage
3
Mizuna
T3
Cyprodinil
Cyprodinil
Cucumber
0.5
Onion, bulb
0.2
Peppers, Sweet
0.7
Difenoconazole
Difenoconazole
Beetroot
T0.5
Dimethomorph
Sum of E and Z isomers of dimethomorph
Spring onion
2
Fludioxonil
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of fludioxonil and oxidisable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil
Commodities of plant origin: Fludioxonil
Cucumber
0.5
Edible offal (mammalian)
0.1
Meat (mammalian)
0.05
Milks
0.05
Onion, bulb
0.2
Peppers, Sweet
2
Strawberry
5
Metolachlor
Metolachlor
Cotton seed
*0.01
