Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2023
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 seventeenth day of July 2023
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 3, 2023 (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.
Variations to Schedule 20 – Maximum residue limits
[1] The table to section S20–3 in Schedule 20 is varied by
[1.1] inserting in alphabetical order
Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Sum of indaziflam and 6-[(1R)-1-fluoroethyl]-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine, expressed as indaziflam Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Indaziflam | |
Almonds | *0.01 |
Citrus fruits | *0.01 |
Edible offal (mammalian) | 0.1 |
Grapes | *0.01 |
Meat (mammalian) [in the fat] | 0.03 |
Milks | *0.005 |
Agvet chemical: Inpyrfluxam | |
Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Inpyrfluxam Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of inpyrfluxam and 1′-CH2OH-S-2840 (free or conjugated), expressed as inpyrfluxam. | |
Banana | 0.7 |
Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.02 |
Eggs | *0.02 |
Meat (mammalian) | *0.02 |
Milks | *0.02 |
Poultry, edible offal of | *0.02 |
Poultry meat | *0.02 |
Potato | 0.05 |
Agvet chemical: Ipflufenoquin | |
Permitted residue: Ipflufenoquin | |
Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
Eggs | *0.01 |
Meat (mammalian) [in the fat] | *0.01 |
Milks | *0.01 |
Poultry meat [in the fat] | *0.01 |
Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
Strawberry | 0.3 |
[1.2] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
Agvet chemical: Fipronil | |
Permitted residue: Sum of fipronil, the sulphenyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl) sulphenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), the sulphonyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl)sulphonyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), and the trifluoromethyl metabolite (5-amino-4-trifluoromethyl-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile) | |
Citrus fruits [except kumquats] | T*0.01 |
Stone fruits [except jujube, Chinese] | 0.01 |
Agvet chemical: Fluopicolide | |
Permitted residue: Fluopicolide | |
Brassica vegetables (except Brassica leafy vegetables) [except Chinese cabbage (Pe-tsai)] | 5 |
Broccoli, Chinese (Gai lan) | 5 |
Chinese cabbage (Pe-tsai) | 30 |
Leafy vegetables [except broccoli, Chinese (Gai lan); witloof chicory] | 30 |
Agvet chemical: Mandestrobin | |
Permitted residue: Mandestrobin | |
Stone fruit [except jujube, Chinese] | 3 |
Agvet chemical: Propamocarb | |
Permitted residue: Propamocarb (base) | |
Brassica vegetables (except Brassica leafy vegetables) [except Chinese cabbage (Pe-tsai)] | 30 |
Broccoli, Chinese (Gai lan) | 30 |
Chinese cabbage (Pe-tsai) | 70 |
Leafy vegetables [except broccoli, Chinese (Gai lan); witloof chicory] | 70 |
Agvet chemical: Proquinazid | |
Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Proquinazid Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of proquinazid and 3-(6-iodo-4-oxo-3-propyl-3H-quinazolin-2-yloxy)propionic acid, expressed as proquinazid | |
Pome fruit [except Persimmon, Japanese] | 0.3 |
Agvet chemical: Sethoxydim | |
Permitted residue: Sum of sethoxydim and metabolites containing the 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)cyclohexene-3-one and 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)-5-hydroxycyclohexene-3-one moieties and their sulfoxides and sulfones, expressed as sethoxydim | |
Basil | T1 |
Basil, dry | T5 |
Coriander (leaves, roots, stems) | *0.1 |
Coriander, seed | *0.1 |
Leafy vegetables [except broccoli, Chinese (Gai lan); lettuce, head; lettuce, leaf; witloof chicory] | T0.5 |
Turmeric, root | 1 |
[1.3] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
Permitted residue: Dodine | |
All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.1 |
Walnuts | T0.3 |
Permitted residue: Sum of fipronil, the sulphenyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl) sulphenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), the sulphonyl metabolite (5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl)sulphonyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile), and the trifluoromethyl metabolite (5-amino-4-trifluoromethyl-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile) | |
Carob | T*0.01 |
Citrus fruit | T*0.01 |
Stone fruits | 0.01 |
Permitted residue: Fluopicolide | |
Brassica vegetables (except Brassica leafy vegetables) | 5 |
Cane berries | T1.5 |
Leafy vegetables | 30 |
Permitted residue: Mandestrobin | |
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits | 0.6 |
Stone fruit | 3 |
Permitted residue: Mesotrione | |
Oats | *0.01 |
Triticale | *0.01 |
Agvet chemical: Metrafenone | |
Permitted residue: Metrafenone | |
Wheat bran, processed | T0.3 |
Permitted residue: Propamocarb (base) | |
Brassica vegetables (except Brassica leafy vegetables) | 30 |
Cane berries | T15 |
Leafy vegetables | 70 |
Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Proquinazid Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of proquinazid and 3-(6-iodo-4-oxo-3-propyl-3H-quinazolin-2-yloxy)propionic acid, expressed as proquinazid | |
Pome fruit | 0.3 |
Wheat | T*0.02 |
Permitted residue: Prosulfocarb | |
Oats | *0.01 |
Triticale | *0.01 |
Agvet chemical: Sethoxydim | |
Permitted residue: Sum of sethoxydim and metabolites containing the 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)cyclohexene-3-one and 5-(2-ethylthiopropyl)-5-hydroxycyclohexene-3-one moieties and their sulfoxides and sulfones, expressed as sethoxydim | |
Chives, Chinese | T1 |
Dried herbs {except Hops, dry} | T5 |
Fennel, bulb | T1 |
Garlic chives | T1 |
Herbs | T1 |
Leafy vegetables {except Lettuce, head; Lettuce, leaf} | T1 |
Spices | T5 |
Agvet chemical: Tetraniliprole | |
Permitted residue: Tetraniliprole | |
Pineapple | T*0.01 |
[1.4] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
Permitted residue: Fluralaner | |
Sheep fat | 0.35 |
Sheep kidney | 0.15 |
Sheep liver | 0.4 |
Sheep muscle | 0.1 |
Agvet chemical: Pyraclostrobin | |
Permitted residue—commodities of plant origin: Pyraclostrobin Permitted residue—commodities of animal origin: Sum of pyraclostrobin and metabolites hydrolysed to 1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-ol, expressed as pyraclostrobin | |
Celery | T8 |