Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 4 (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument 2013 (No. 1)1

 

 

 

I, Kareena Arthy, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, acting in accordance with my powers under subsection 32(1) and 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.

 

 

 

 

Kareena Arthy

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Dated this Twenty-sixth day of March 2013

 

 

1 Name of Instrument

  This Instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 4 (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument 2013 (No. 1).

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] Part 1, section 3

substitute

3 Object

  The object of this Instrument is to establish approved standards for residues of chemical products in protected commodities.

Note   Section 7A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992 requires the APVMA to publish, in an appropriate manner, in each calendar year approved standards for residues of chemical products in protected commodities.

[2] Subsection 4(4)

omit

  the APVMA.

substitute

  the APVMA. Prior to the making of this Instrument, the APVMA published the MRL Standard on its website.

[3] Schedule, Part 1 Preliminary, subsection 1(7)

omit

  Australian Standards SAA 2706-1984

substitute

  Australian Standards SAA 2706-2003

[4] Schedule, Part 2 The Tables, after subsection 3(1)

insert

 (1A)  Unless otherwise stated, the residue definitions are established both for compliance with MRLs and for estimation of dietary intake for dietary risk assessment. Where separate definitions for compliance and for dietary risk are established they are identified and the compliance definition must be used for comparison with MRLs established in Table 1.

[5] Schedule, Table 1 - MRLs of agricultural and veterinary chemicals and associated substances in food commodities

insert in alphabetical order the following new compounds and associated foods and MRLs

 

COMPOUND

FOOD

MRL (mg/kg)

Cyflufenamid

 

 

DF 0269

Dried grapes (= Currants, Raisins and Sultanas)

0.5

MO 0105

Edible offal (Mammalian)

*0.01

PE 0112

Eggs

*0.01

VC 0045

Fruiting vegetables, Cucurbits

0.1

FB 0269

Grapes

0.1

MM 0095

Meat [mammalian][in the fat]

*0.01

ML 0106

Milks

*0.01

PO 0111

Poultry, Edible offal of

*0.01

PM 0110

Poultry meat [in the fat]

*0.01

 

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)

Fluazifop-butyl

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

VA 0384

Leek

T0.5

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

VA 0384

Leek

T0.7

 

 

 

Flutriafol

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

GS 0659

Sugar cane

T0.3

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

GS 0659

Sugar cane

*0.01

 

 

 

Metsulfuron-methyl

 

OMIT:

 

 

SO 0698

Poppy seed

T*0.01

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

SO 0698

Poppy seed

*0.01

 

 

 

Triclabendazole

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

ML 0812

Cattle milk

T*0.05

 

 

 

Triclopyr

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

SO 0698

Poppy seed

T*0.01

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

SO 0698

Poppy seed

*0.01

 

for each of the following compounds, insert in alphabetical order the associated foods and MRLs listed below

 

COMPOUND

FOOD

MRL (mg/kg)

Bifenazate

 

 

DH 1100

Hops, dry

T3

 

 

 

Dimethoate

 

 

VO 0440

Egg plant

T0.02

 

 

 

Fluazifop-butyl

 

 

VO 0440

Egg plant

T0.1

 

 

 

Fluazinam

 

 

VR 0589

Potato

*0.01

 

 

 

Fludioxonil

 

 

TN 0664

Chestnuts

T1

 

 

 

Pyraclostrobin

 

 

VD 0536

Mung bean (dry)

T0.2

 

 

 

Spirotetramat

 

 

VS 0624

Celery

5

FI 0351

Passion fruit

0.5

VD 0541

Soya bean (dry)

T5

 

 

 

Terbuthylazine

 

 

GC 0640

Barley

T*0.01

GC 0647

Oats

T*0.01

GC 0654

Wheat

T*0.01

 

 

[6] Schedule, Table 3 - Residue definitions

insert in alphabetical order the following new compounds and associated residues

 

COMPOUND

RESIDUE

Cyflufenamid

Cyflufenamid

 


 [7] Schedule, Table 4 - MRLs for pesticides in animal feed commodities

insert in alphabetical order the following new compounds and associated animal feed commodities and MRLs

 

COMPOUND

ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY

MRL (mg/kg)

Cyflufenamid

 

 

AB 0269

Grape pomace, dry

0.5

 

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)

Flutriafol

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

AM 0659

Sugar cane fodder

T2

AV 0659

Sugar cane forage

T2

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

AM 0659

Sugar cane fodder

*0.01

AV 0659

Sugar cane forage

*0.01

 

 

 

Spirotetramat

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

AL 0157

Legume animal feeds

20

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

AL 0157

Legume animal feeds [except soya bean forage and fodder]

20

AL 0541

Soya bean fodder

T50

AL 1265

Soya bean forage (green)

T50

 


for the following compounds, insert in alphabetical order the associated animal feed commodities and MRLs listed below

 

COMPOUND

ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY

MRL (mg/kg)

Pyraclostrobin

 

 

 

Mung bean fodder

T2

 

Mung bean forage

T2

 

 

 

Terbuthylazine

 

 

 

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

T5

 

[8] Schedule, Table 5 - Uses of substances where MRLs are not necessary

insert in alphabetical order the following new substances and associated uses

 

SUBSTANCE

USE

Z, Z-3, 13-octadecadien-1-yl acetate

In dispensers for mating disruption of clearwing persimmon borer (Ichneumenoptera chrysophanes)

 

 

Z, Z-3, 13-octadecadien-1-ol

In dispensers for mating disruption of clearwing persimmon borer (Ichneumenoptera chrysophanes)

 

1 Note

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