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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument (No.4) 2022

I, Sheila Logan, Delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, make the following instrument.

Dated    7 July 2022

Sheila Logan

Delegate

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument (No. 4) 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 6(2), for the purposes of subparagraph 5A(3)(b)(iii) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code, as scheduled to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Instrument 2019

1  Schedule 1, Table 1—MRLs in food commodities

 

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)

Bupirimate

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

VO 0448

Tomato

T1

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

VO 0448

Tomato

T0.3

 

 

 

Cyprodinil

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

FP 0009

Pome fruits

0.05

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

FP 0226

Apple

1

FP 0009

Pome fruits {except Apple}

0.05

 

 

 

Isoeugenol

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

Gr 0042

Fish (whole commodity)

100

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

WF 0115

Freshwater Fish

100

WD 0120

Diadromous Fish

100

WS 0125

Marine Fish

100

 

 

 

Prothioconazole

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

VD 0524

Chick-pea (dry)

T0.5

VD 0070

Pulses {except Chick-pea (dry); Lupin (dry); Soya bean (dry)}

*0.02

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

VD 0070

Pulses {except Lupin (dry); Soya bean (dry)}

*0.02

 

 

 

Tebuconazole

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

TN 0660

Almonds

*0.01

VA 0035

Bulb vegetables [alliums] {except Garlic}

*0.01

FC 0001

Citrus fruits

T0.05

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

TN 0660

Almonds

0.05

VA 2031

Bulb onions {except garlic}

0.07

FC 0001

Citrus fruits

0.2

FI 0332

Custard apple

2

VC 0045

Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits

0.5

VA 2032

Green onions

2

SO 0305

Olives for oil production

2

OC 0305

Olive oil, crude

5

FI 0351

Passion fruit

0.5

VO 0445

Peppers, sweet [capsicum]

0.5

FI 0352

Persimmon, American

2

TN 0675

Pistachio nut

0.05

FB 0275

Strawberry

2

FT 0305

Table olives

2

VO 0448

Tomato

0.5

 

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

COMPOUND

FOOD

MRL (mg/kg)

Captan

 

 

FC 4029

Tangelo, large-sized cultivars

T3

Emamectin

 

 

GC 0651

Sorghum

*0.002

 

 

 

Fluopyram

 

 

VA 2031

Bulb onions

0.07

FC 0001

Citrus fruits

0.2

VC 0045

Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits

0.5

VA 2032

Green onions

2

TN 0669

Macadamia nuts

0.2

SO 0305

Olives for oil production

3

OC 0305

Olive oil, crude

5

VO 0445

Peppers, sweet [capsicum]

0.3

TN 0675

Pistachio nut

0.2

FT 0305

Table olives

3

VO 0448

Tomato

0.7

 

 

 

Myclobutanil

 

 

FB 2005

Cane berries

T2

 

 

 

Tetraniliprole

 

 

FB 2005

Cane berries

T0.5

 

2  Schedule 1, Table 4—Animal Feed Commodities

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)

Tebuconazole

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

 

Almond hulls

10

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

 

Almond hulls

15

AB 0001

Citrus pulp, dry

2

 

Tomato pomace, dry

7

 

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

COMPOUND

ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY

MRL (mg/kg)

Cyprodinil

 

 

AB 0226

Apple pomace, dry

10

 

 

 

Emamectin

 

 

 

Sorghum forage and fodder

0.02

 

 

 

Fluopyram

 

 

AB 0001

Citrus pulp, dry

0.2

 

Tomato pomace, dry

15

 

3  Schedule 1, Table 5—MRLs not necessary

Insert in alphabetical order the following new substances and associated uses:

SUBSTANCE

USE

Calcined kaolin

For use in agricultural situations

Chloropicrin

As a pre-plant soil fumigant in food producing crops 

Tricaine methanesulfonate

{T} For sedation and anaesthesia of finfish

 

Omit the following substances and associated uses:

SUBSTANCE

USE

Chlorpicrin

{T} As a soil fumigant prior to the cultivation of strawberry runners