Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 4 (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument 2013 (No. 5)1
 
 
 
I, Rajumati Bhula, Executive Director, Pesticides and delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, having regard to s 7A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992, make this instrument for the purposes of subsection 6(1) and the reference in paragraph 14(5)(f) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code which is a Schedule to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.
 
 
 
 
 
Rajumati Bhula
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
 
 
 
Dated this seventh day of August 2013
 
 
1                Name of Instrument
                  This Instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 4 (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument 2013 (No. 5).
2                Commencement
                  This Instrument commences on the day after it is registered.
3                Amendment of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 4 (MRL Standard) 2012
                  Schedule 1 to this Instrument amends the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 4 (MRL Standard) 2012.
Schedule 1        Amendments
(section 3)
[1]            Schedule, Table 1 - MRLs of agricultural and veterinary chemicals and associated substances in food commodities
 
for each of the following compounds, omit the associated foods and MRLs listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated foods and MRLs listed under 'substitute' (if any)
 
COMPOUND
FOOD
MRL (mg/kg)

Terbuthylazine
 
 

OMIT:
 
 

GC      0640
Barley
T*0.01

GC      0647
Oats
T*0.01

GC      0651
Sorghum
*0.01

GC      0654
Wheat
T*0.01

SUBSTITUTE:
 
 

GC      0080
Cereal grains [except Maize]
*0.01

 
 
 

Trifloxystrobin
 
 

OMIT:
 
 

VO      0445
Peppers, Sweet [capsicum]
T*0.1

SUBSTITUTE:
 
 

VO      0445
Peppers, Sweet [capsicum]
T0.5

 
 
[2]            Schedule, Table 4 - MRLs for pesticides in animal feed commodities
 
for each of the following compounds, omit the associated animal food commodities and MRLs listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated animal feed commodities and MRLs listed under 'substitute' (if any)
 
COMPOUND
ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY
MRL (mg/kg)

Indoxacarb
 
 

OMIT:
 
 

 
Pastures (mixed grasses/leguminous)
T1

SUBSTITUTE:
 
 

 
Pastures (mixed grasses/leguminous)
1

 
 
 

Terbuthylazine
 
 

OMIT:
 
 

 
Cereal grain forage, fodder and straw [except Maize fodder; Maize forage; Sorghum forage (green); Sorghum straw and fodder, dry]
T5

 
Forage of pulse crops (green)
5

 
Rape seed [canola] forage
5

AF       0651
Sorghum forage (green)
5

SUBSTITUTE:
 
 

 
Primary feed commodities [except fodder and forage of sweet corn; Maize fodder; Maize forage; rape seed (canola) fodder; Sorghum straw and fodder, dry; straw and fodder of pulse crops (dry)]
5
 

 
[3]            Schedule, Table 5 - Uses of substances where MRLs are not necessary
 
for each of the following substances, omit the associated uses listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated uses listed under 'substitute' (if any)
 
SUBSTANCE
USE

OMIT:
 

Indoxacarb
{T} As a bait for the control of fire ants in horticultural crops where contact with the edible commodities will not occur.

SUBSTITUTE:
 

Indoxacarb
As a bait for the control of fire ants in horticultural crops where contact with the edible commodities will not occur

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1        Note
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