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Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 5, 2021

 

 

 

I, Sheila Logan, delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, acting in accordance with my powers under 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheila Logan

Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority

 

 

 

Dated this First day of September 2021


Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of instrument

  This instrument is the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code Schedule 20 Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 5, 2021 (Amendment Instrument).

2 Commencement

  In accordance with subsection 82(8) of the Food Standards Australia New
Zealand Act 1991, this instrument commences on the day 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.

3 Object

  The object of this instrument is for the APVMA to make variations to Schedule 20 Maximum residue limits in 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 Schedule 20 Maximum residue limits
in 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. Schedule 20 was published in the Food Standards Gazette FSC 96 on Thursday 10 April 2015 and was registered as a legislative instrument on 1 April 2015 (F2015L00468).

Part 2 Variations to Schedule 20
Maximum Residue Limits

5 Variations to Schedule 20

  The Schedule to this instrument sets out the variations made to the Principal Instrument by this instrument. 


Schedule

Variations to Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits

[1] The table to section S203 in Schedule 20 is varied by

[1.1] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs

Agvet chemical: Flonicamid

Permitted residue:  Flonicamid [N -(cyanomethyl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pyridinecarboxamide] and its metabolites TFNA [4-trifluoromethylnicotinic acid], TFNA-AM [4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide] TFNG [N -(4-trifluoromethylnicotinoyl)glycine]

Tomato

T0.5

 

Agvet chemical: Pyriproxyfen

Permitted residue:  Pyriproxyfen

Beans [except broad bean; soya bean]

T0.5

Yard-long bean (pods)

T0.5

 

Agvet chemical: Saflufenacil

Permitted residuecommodities of plant origin:  Sum of saflufenacil, N′-{2-chloro-4-fluoro-5-[1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)pyrimidin-1-yl]benzoyl-N-isopropyl sulfamide and N-[4-chloro-2-fluoro-5-({[(isopropylamino)sulfonyl]amino} carbonyl)phenyl]urea, expressed as saflufenacil equivalents

Permitted residuecommodities of animal origin:  Saflufenacil

Oilseed

*0.03

 

[1.2] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order

Agvet chemical: Cyantraniliprole

Permitted residue:  Cyantraniliprole

Celery

T7

 

Agvet chemical: Dimethoate

Permitted residue:  Sum of dimethoate and omethoate, expressed as dimethoate

see also Omethoate

Olives for oil production

T3


Agvet chemical: Flonicamid

Permitted residue:  Flonicamid [N -(cyanomethyl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pyridinecarboxamide] and its metabolites TFNA [4-trifluoromethylnicotinic acid], TFNA-AM [4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide] TFNG [N -(4-trifluoromethylnicotinoyl)glycine]

Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits

T0.5

Rape seed (canola)

0.5

 

Agvet chemical: Fluxapyroxad

Permitted residue:  Fluxapyroxad

Oats

T0.2

 

Agvet chemical: Isopyrazam

Permitted residue:  Isopyrazam

All other foods except animal food commodities

0.01

Almonds

*0.01

 

Agvet chemical: Isoxaflutole

Permitted residue:  Sum of isoxaflutole and 2-cyclopropylcarbonyl-3-(2-methylsulfonyl-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-3-oxopropanenitrile, expressed as isoxaflutole

All other foods except animal food commodities

0.02

Pineapple

*0.02

 

Agvet chemical: Mefentrifluconazole

Permitted residue:  Mefentrifluconazole

Barley

T0.2

Oats

T0.2

Rape seed [canola]

T0.05

Wheat

T0.03

 

Agvet chemical: Mesotrione

Permitted residue:  Mesotrione

All other foods except animal food commodities

0.01

Linseed

T*0.01

Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob)

T*0.01


Agvet chemical: Methomyl

Permitted residue:  Methomyl

Pitaya (dragon fruit)

T0.2

 

Agvet chemical: Metribuzin

Permitted residue:  Metribuzin

Pineapple

*0.01

 

Agvet chemical: Omethoate

Permitted residue:  Omethoate

see also Dimethoate

Olives for oil production

T2

Olive oil, refined

T0.2

 

Agvet chemical: Pyriproxyfen

Permitted residue:  Pyriproxyfen

Beans with pods

T0.3

 

Agvet chemical: Saflufenacil

Permitted residuecommodities of plant origin:  Sum of saflufenacil, N′-{2-chloro-4-fluoro-5-[1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)pyrimidin-1-yl]benzoyl-N-isopropyl sulfamide and N-[4-chloro-2-fluoro-5-({[(isopropylamino)sulfonyl]amino} carbonyl)phenyl]urea, expressed as saflufenacil equivalents

Permitted residuecommodities of animal origin:  Saflufenacil

Linseed

T0.5

 

[1.3] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting

Agvet chemical: Azoxystrobin

Permitted residue:  Azoxystrobin

Beetroot

T*0.005

 

Agvet chemical: Bromoxynil

Permitted residue:  Bromoxynil

Onion, bulb

*0.01


Agvet chemical: Carbendazim

Permitted residue:  Sum of carbendazim and 2-aminobenzimidazole, expressed as carbendazim

Mushrooms

T1

 

Agvet chemical: Dimethoate

Permitted residue:  Sum of dimethoate and omethoate, expressed as dimethoate

see also Omethoate

Olive oil, refined

T0.3

 

Agvet chemical: Imazapyr

Permitted residue:  Imazapyr

Broad bean (dry)

0.07

 

Agvet chemical: Mefentrifluconazole

Permitted residue:  Mefentrifluconazole

Edible offal (mammalian)

T0.3

Meat (mammalian) (in the fat)

T0.2

 

Agvet chemical: Saflufenacil

Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin:  Sum of saflufenacil, N′-{2-chloro-4-fluoro-5-[1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)pyrimidin-1-yl]benzoyl-N-isopropyl sulfamide and N-[4-chloro-2-fluoro-5-({[(isopropylamino)sulfonyl]amino} carbonyl)phenyl]urea, expressed as saflufenacil equivalents

Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin:  Saflufenacil

Oilseed [except cotton seed; linseed; rapeseed; sunflower seed]

*0.03

 

Agvet chemical: Spiroxamine

Permitted residuecommodities of plant origin:  Spiroxamine

Permitted residuecommodities of animal origin:  Spiroxamine carboxylic acid, expressed as spiroxamine

Barley

0.03

Podded pea (young pods) (snow and sugar snap)

T0.6