Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 7, 2014
I, Allen Bryce, Executive Director, Veterinary Medicines 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.
Allen Bryce
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this twenty-fourth day of July 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 7, 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 15 of
29 July 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) omitting from Schedule 1 the chemical residue definition for Milbemectin and substituting the following chemical residue definition-
“Sum of milbemycin MA3 and milbemycin MA4 and their photoisomers, milbemycin (Z) 8,9-MA3 and (Z) 8,9-MA4”
(b) 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
Mushrooms
T0.05
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, Head cabbages, Flowerhead brassicas
0.7
Cloudberry
T5
Dewberries (including loganberry)
T5
Peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds)
2
Bifenthrin
Bifenthrin
Cloudberry
T3
Dewberries (including boysenberry and loganberry)
T3
Gooseberry
T3
Carbaryl
Carbaryl
Cassava
T0.1
Carfentrazone-ethyl
Carfentrazone-ethyl
Potato
*0.05
Methomyl
Methomyl
Cassava
T1
Milbemectin
Sum of milbemycin MA3 and milbemycin MA4 and their photoisomers, milbemycin (Z) 8,9-MA3 and (Z) 8,9Z-MA4
Edible offal (mammalian)
*0.002
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
*0.002
Milk fats
*0.0005
Milks
*0.0005
Pome fruits
0.02
Paraquat
Paraquat cation
Cassava
T*0.05
Pymetrozine
Pymetrozine
Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)
T*0.01
Tebuconazole
Tebuconazole
Pome fruits
*0.01
Stone fruits
*0.01
(c) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Broccoli
T0.5
Brussels sprouts
T0.5
Cauliflower
T0.5
Peas
T3
Rucola (rocket)
T50
Bifenthrin
Bifenthrin
Boysenberry
1
(d) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Beans [except broad and soya bean]
2
Brassica leafy vegetables [except mizuna]
2
Bulb vegetables [except fennel, bulb; onion, bulb]
2
Horseradish
0.5
Lettuce, head
15
Lettuce, leaf
15
Radish
0.5
Tree nuts [except almonds]
2
Bifenthrin
Bifenthrin
Blackberries
T3
Blueberries
T3
Raspberries, red, black
T3
Ethephon
Ethephon
Olives
T5
Fluazifop-p-butyl
Sum of fluazifop-butyl, fluazifop and their conjugates, expressed as fluazifop
Egg plant
T0.7
Leek
T1
Sweet potato
T0.3
Yams
T0.3
Fludioxonil
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of fludioxonil and oxidisable metabolites, expressed as fludioxonil
Commodities of plant origin: Fludioxonil
Mango
3
Pymetrozine
Pymetrozine
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits
T0.3
Peppers, Sweet
T0.3
Trifloxystrobin
Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)-methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid), expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents
Celery
T5
Chard (silver beet)
T1
Chicory leaves
T1
Endive
T1
Spinach
T1