Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 1, 2013
I, Rajumati Bhula, Program Manager, 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
Program Manager
Pesticides Program
Dated this eleventh day of January 2013
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, 2013.
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 1 of
15th January 2013.
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[1].
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 foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Glyphosate
Sum of glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate
Oilseed [except cotton seed; linseed; rape seed (canola); sunflower seed]
T*0.1
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Glyphosate
Sum of glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) metabolite, expressed as glyphosate
Oilseed [except cotton seed; peanut; poppy seed; linseed; rape seed (canola); sunflower seed]
T*0.1
Poppy seed
T20
Imidacloprid
Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as imidacloprid
Blueberries
T0.1
Hops, dry
T10
Methoxyfenozide
Methoxyfenozide
Almonds
T0.2
Spinetoram
Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L
Rape seed (canola)
*0.01
(c) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Glufosinate and Glufosinate-ammonium
Sum of glufosinate-ammonium, N-acetyl glufosinate and 3-[hydroxy(methyl)-phosphinoyl] propionic acid, expressed as glufosinate (free acid)
Hops, dry
T1
Iprodione
Iprodione
Egg plant
T1
Spinetoram
Sum of Ethyl-spinosyn-J and Ethyl-spinosyn-L
Milk fats
0.03
[1] Note An amendment history from 20 December 2000 appears at the beginning of the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code.
