Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 11, 2012
I, Allen Bryce, Program Manager, 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
Program Manager
Veterinary Medicines Program
Dated this twenty-seventh day of November 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 11, 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 24 of
4th December 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 –
Penthiopyrad
Commodities of plant origin: Penthiopyrad
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of penthiopyrad and 1-methyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazol-4-ylcarboxamide, expressed as penthiopyrad
Brassica leafy vegetables
70
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, Head cabbages, Flowerhead brassicas
7
Edible offal (mammalian)
*0.01
Eggs
*0.01
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits
1
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits
5
Leafy vegetables [except brassica leafy vegetables; lettuce, head]
50
Lettuce, head
10
Meat (mammalian)
*0.01
Milks
*0.01
Onion, bulb
1
Onion, Welsh
5
Pome fruit
0.5
Potato
0.1
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01
Poultry meat
*0.01
Root and tuber vegetables [except potato]
2
Shallot
5
Spring onion
5
Stone fruits
5
Strawberry
5
Tree nuts
0.1
(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Flubendiamide
Commodities of plant origin: Flubendiamide
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of flubendiamide and 3-iodo-N-(2-methyl-4-[1,2,2,2-tetrafluoro-1-(trifluoromethyl)ethyl]phenyl)phthalimide, expressed as flubendiamide
Eggs
*0.01
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
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits
0.2
Thiacloprid
Thiacloprid
Eggs
*0.02
Poultry, edible offal of
*0.02
Poultry meat
*0.02
(c) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Bifenazate
Sum of bifenazate and bifenazate diazene (diazenecarboxylic acid, 2-(4-methoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl-3-yl] 1-methylethyl ester), expressed as bifenazate
Almonds
0.1
Flubendiamide
Commodities of plant origin: Flubendiamide
Commodities of animal origin: Sum of flubendiamide and 3-iodo-N-(2-methyl-4-[1,2,2,2-tetrafluoro-1-(trifluoromethyl)ethyl]phenyl)phthalimide, expressed as flubendiamide
Cotton seed
0.5
Paclobutrazol
Paclobutrazol
Avocado
0.1
Thiacloprid
Thiacloprid
Cotton seed
0.1
2 Errors
(1) In variation subclause (1)(e) of Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 9, 2012, the Principal Instrument was varied by “(e) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –“
Methomyl
Sum of methomyl and methyl hydroxythioacetimidate
(‘methomyl oxime’), expressed as methomyl
see also thiodicarb
Lettuce, head
2
Lettuce, leaf
2
The definition in the shaded box of the chemical Methomyl was varied by clause (1)(a) of this Amendment Instrument and thus was incorrectly described in clause 1(e) which should have read:
(e) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Methomyl
Methomyl
Lettuce, head
2
Lettuce, leaf
2
(2) In variation subclause (1)(c) of Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 10, 2012, the Principal Instrument was varied by “(c) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –“
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
The definition in the shaded box of the chemical Methomyl was varied by clause (1)(a) of Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 9, 2012 and thus was incorrectly described in clause 1(c) of Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 10, 2012 which should have read:
(c) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Methomyl
Methomyl
Coriander (leaves, stem, roots)
T10
Fig
T0.7
Tree tomato (tamarillo)
T1
[1] Note An amendment history from 20 December 2000 appears at the beginning of the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code.
