Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 4, 2011
 
 
 
I, Eva Bennet-Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, acting in accordance with my powers under subsection 32(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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Eva Bennet-Jenkins
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
Dated this 2nd day of November 2011
 
 
 
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 4, 2011.
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
8 November 2011.
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 –
 
Pyroxasulfone

Commodities of plant origin: (5-Difluoromethoxy-1-methyl-3-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)methanesulfonic acid, expressed as pyroxasulfone
Commodities of animal origin: 5-Difluoromethoxy-1-methyl-3-trifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid, expressed as pyroxasulfone

Cereal grains
T*0.01

Edible offal (mammalian)
T*0.02

Eggs
T*0.02

Meat (mammalian)
T*0.02

Milks
T*0.002

Poultry, edible offal of
T*0.02

Poultry meat
T*0.02

 
 

 
(b)           omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
 
Chlorothalonil

Commodities of plant origin: Chlorothalonil
Commodities of animal origin: 4-hydroxy-2,5,6-trichloroisophthalonitrile metabolite expressed as chlorothalonil

Vegetables [except asparagus; Brussels sprouts; carrot; celery; chard (silverbeet); fennel bulb; fruiting vegetables, cucurbits; garlic; leafy vegetables; leek; onion, bulb; peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds); potato; pulses; spinach; spring onion; tomato]
T7

 
 

Triadimenol

Triadimenol
see also Triadimefon

Egg plant
T1

Peppers
1

Tomato
T0.2

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
(c)           inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
 
Chlorothalonil

Commodities of plant origin: Chlorothalonil
Commodities of animal origin: 4-hydroxy-2,5,6-trichloroisophthalonitrile metabolite expressed as chlorothalonil

Egg plant
T10

Vegetables [except asparagus; Brussels sprouts; carrot; celery; egg plant; fennel bulb; fruiting vegetables, cucurbits; garlic; leafy vegetables; leek; onion, bulb; peas (pods and succulent, immature seeds); potato; pulses; spring onion; tomato]
T7

 
 

Triadimenol

Triadimenol
see also Triadimefon

Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits
1

 
 

Trinexapac-ethyl

4-(cyclopropyl-α-hydroxy-methylene)-3,5-dioxo-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid

Oats
T0.3

 
 

 
(d)           omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
 
Mandipropamid

Mandipropamid

Dried grapes (currants, raisins and sultanas
2

Edible offal (mammalian)
*0.01

Eggs
*0.01

Grapes
0.3

Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)
*0.01

Milks
*0.01

Poultry, edible offal of
*0.01

Poultry meat (in the fat)
*0.01

 
 

 

[1] Note     An amendment history from 20 December 2000 appears at the beginning of the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code.