Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 6, 2013
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 thirty-first day of October 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 6, 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 22 of
5 November 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.
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 –
Sulfoxaflor
Sulfoxaflor
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, Head cabbages, Flowerhead brassicas [except cauliflower]
3
Cauliflower
0.1
Cereal grains
*0.01
Cherries
3
Citrus fruits
0.7
Cotton seed
0.3
Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas)
10
Edible offal (mammalian)
0.5
Eggs
*0.01
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits
0.5
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits
1
Grapes [except wine grapes]
3
Leafy vegetables [except lettuce, head]
5
Lettuce, head
1
Meat (mammalian)
0.2
Milks
0.1
Pome fruits
0.5
Potato
0.01
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01
Poultry meat
*0.01
Rape seed (canola)
*0.01
Root and tuber vegetables [except potato]
0.05
Soya bean (dry)
0.3
Stone fruits [except cherries]
1
Wine grapes
*0.01
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Acetamiprid
Commodities of plant origin: Acetamiprid
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of acetamiprid
and N-demethyl acetamiprid ((E)-N1-[(6-chloro-3-
pyridyl)methyl]-N2-cyanoacetamidine), expressed as
acetamiprid
Date
T5
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Brassica leafy vegetables [except mizuna]
T10
Mexican tarragon
T50
Mizuna
T50
Tea, green, black
T20
Boscalid
Commodities of plant origin: Boscalid
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of boscalid, 2-
chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl)
nicotinamide and the glucuronide conjugate of 2-
chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl)
nicotinamide, expressed as boscalid equivalents
Cherries
T3
Stone fruits [except cherries]
1.7
Clothianidin
Clothianidin
Apricot
T2
Etoxazole
Etoxazole
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits
T0.1
Ivy gourd
T0.1
Pointed gourd
T0.1
Imidacloprid
Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the
6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as
imidacloprid
Date
T1
Hazelnuts
T*0.01
Lemon balm
T5
Teas (tea and herb teas)
T10
Methoxyfenozide
Methoxyfenozide
Cucumber
T2
Lettuce, leaf
T30
Paclobutrazol
Paclobutrazol
Broccoli
T*0.01
Prochloraz
Sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the
2,4,6-trichlorophenol moiety, expressed as
prochloraz
Custard apple
T2
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
Pome fruits
T0.5
Terbuthylazine
Terbuthylazine
Cereal grains [except maize]
*0.01
Trifloxystrobin
Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)-
methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-
ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid),
expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents
Tomato
0.7
(c) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Brassica leafy vegetables
T10
Boscalid
Commodities of plant origin: Boscalid
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of boscalid, 2-
chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl)
nicotinamide and the glucuronide conjugate of 2-
chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl)
nicotinamide, expressed as boscalid equivalents
Stone fruits
1.7
Terbuthylazine
Terbuthylazine
Barley
T*0.01
Oats
T*0.01
Sorghum
*0.01
Wheat
T*0.01
(d) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Abamectin
Sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and (Z)-8,9
avermectin B1a, and (Z)-8,9 avermectin B1b
Lettuce, leaf
T1
Azoxystrobin
Azoxystrobin
Bergamot
T50
Burnet, Salad
T50
Chervil
T50
Coriander (leaves, stem, roots)
T50
Coriander, seed
T50
Dill, seed
T50
Fennel, seed
T50
Herbs [except as otherwise listed under this chemical]
T50
Kaffir lime leaves
T50
Lemon grass
T50
Lemon verbena (dry leaves)
T50
Rose and dianthus (edible flowers)
T50
Rucola (rocket)
T50
Imidacloprid
Sum of imidacloprid and metabolites containing the
6-chloropyridinylmethylene moiety, expressed as
imidacloprid
Ginger, root
T0.3
Indoxacarb
Sum of indoxacarb and its R-isomer
Tomato
T0.5
Linuron
Sum of linuron plus 3,4-dichloroaniline, expressed as
linuron
Leek
*0.02
Pyraclostrobin
Commodities of plant origin: Pyraclostrobin
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of pyraclostrobin
and metabolites hydrolysed to 1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-
1H-pyrazol-3-ol, expressed as pyraclostrobin
Passion fruit
T1
Trifloxystrobin
Sum of trifloxystrobin and its acid metabolite ((E,E)-
methoxyimino-[2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-
ethylideneaminooxymethyl]phenyl] acetic acid),
expressed as trifloxystrobin equivalents
Peppers, Sweet
T0.5
Uniconazole-p
Sum of uniconazole-p and its Z-isomer expressed as
uniconazole-p
Custard apple
T*0.01