Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 10, 2012
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 Seventeenth day of October 2012
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 10, 2012.
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 21 of
23rd October 2012.
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) inserting in Schedule 1 –
Ametoctradin
Commodities of plant origin: Ametoctradin
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of ametoctradin and 6-(7-amino-5-ethyl [1,2,4] triazolo [1,5-a]pyrimidin-6-yl) hexanoic acid
Edible offal (mammalian)
*0.02
Eggs
*0.02
Grapes
3
Meat (mammalian)
*0.02
Milks
*0.02
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.02
Poultry meat
*0.02
Fluxapyroxad
Commodities of plant origin: Fluxapyroxad
Commodities of animal origin for enforcement: Fluxapyroxad
All other foods
0.1
Barley
0.2
Barley bran, unprocessed
0.5
Edible offal (mammalian)
0.03
Eggs
0.005
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
0.05
Milk fats
0.02
Milks
0.005
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01
Poultry meat (in the fat)
*0.01
Proquinazid
Commodities of plant origin: Proquinazid
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of proquinazid and 3-(6-iodo-4-oxo-3-propyl-3H-quinazolin-2-yloxy)propionic acid, expressed as proquinazid
Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas)
2
Edible offal (mammalian)
0.05
Eggs
*0.01
Grapes
0.5
Meat (mammalian)
*0.01
Milks
*0.01
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01
Poultry meat
*0.01
(b) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
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
Edible offal (mammalian)
*0.01
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except peppers, chili]
0.3
(c) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
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
Edible offal (mammalian) [except liver]
*0.01
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits [except peppers, chili and sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)]
0.3
Legume vegetables
1
Liver (mammalian)
0.02
Milk fats
0.1
Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)
*0.01
Emamectin
Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Strawberry
T0.1
Fenbutatin oxide
Bis[tris(2-methyl-2-phenylpropyl)tin]-oxide
Fig
T10
Imazalil
Imazalil
Mushrooms
T1
Methomyl
Sum of methomyl and methyl hydroxythioacetimidate
(‘methomyl oxime’), expressed as methomyl
see also thiodicarb
Coriander (leaves, stem, roots)
T10
Fig
T0.7
Tree tomato (tamarillo)
T1
Prothioconazole
Commodities of plant origin: Sum of prothioconazole
and prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of prothioconazole, prothioconazole desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), prothioconazole-3-hydroxydesthio(2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-3-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol)and prothioconazole-4-hydroxy-desthio (2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-1-(2-chloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-propan-2-ol), expressed as prothioconazole
Peanut
T*0.02
Spiroxamine
Commodities of plant origin: Spiroxamine
Commodities of animal origin: Spiroxamine
carboxylic acid, expressed as spiroxamine
Barley
T*0.05
(d) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
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
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
0.02
Emamectin
Sum of emamectin B1a and emamectin B1b
Rape seed (canola)
*0.005
Propylene oxide
Propylene oxide
Almonds
100
Terbuthylazine
Terbuthylazine
Sorghum
*0.01
[1] Note An amendment history from 20 December 2000 appears at the beginning of the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code.
