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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (MRL Standard for Residues of Chemical Products) Amendment Instrument (No. 3) 2024

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

Dated    11 September 2024

Sheila Logan

Delegate

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (MRL Standard for Residues of Chemical Products) Amendment Instrument (No. 3) 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 7A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (MRL Standard for Residues of Chemical Products) Instrument 2023

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)

Chloridazon

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

VR 0574

Beetroot

*0.05

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

VR 0574

Beetroot

0.5

 

 

 

Fluralaner

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

MF 0812

Cattle fat

T0.7

 

Cattle muscle

T0.07

MO 1280

Cattle, kidney

T0.25

MO 1281

Cattle, liver

T0.6

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

MF 0812

Cattle fat

0.7

 

Cattle muscle

0.07

MO 0812

Cattle, edible offal of {except; kidney, liver}

0.25

MO 1280

Cattle, kidney

0.25

MO 1281

Cattle, liver

0.6

 

 

 

Isocycloseram

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

VL 2057

Baby leaves

T5

VL 0054

Brassica leafy vegetables

4

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

VL 2057

Baby leaves

T8

VL 0054

Brassica leafy vegetables {except Kale}

4

VS 0624

Celery

T4

HH 3209

Coriander

T8

HS 3366

Coriander, root

T8

HS 0779

Coriander, seed

T8

VL 0480

Kale

T8

VL 2050

Leafy greens

T8

HH 0740

Parsley

T8

 

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

COMPOUND

FOOD

MRL (mg/kg)

Fipronil

 

 

GC 2091

Maize cereals

T*0.01

 

 

 

Florylpicoxamid

 

 

FI 0327

Banana

0.5


4  Schedule 1, Table 4—Animal Feed Commodities

 

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

COMPOUND

ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY

MRL (mg/kg)

Fipronil

 

 

 

Maize cereals forage and fodder

T*0.01

 

 

 

Sethoxydim

 

 

 

Brassica forage crops (kale; rape; swede; turnips)

15

AM 1051

Fodder beet (fresh weight)

*0.05

AV 1051

Fodder beet leaves or tops

1.5


5  Schedule 1, Table 5—MRLs not necessary

 

For each of the following substances, omit the associated uses listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated uses listed under 'substitute' (if any):

SUBSTANCE

USE

OMIT:

 

(S)-Methoprene

  • As a bait for the control of Fire Ants in fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices, cereal grain crops and sugar cane in situations where direct contact will not occur with the crop or the crop will be washed after harvest

SUBSTITUTE:

 

(S)-Methoprene

  • As a bait for the control of Ants in pastures or in fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices, cereal grain crops and sugar cane in situations where direct contact will not occur with the crop or the crop will be washed after harvest

OMIT:

 

Pyriproxyfen

  • As a bait for the control of ants in agricultural situations where direct contact will not occur with the crop
  • As a bait for the control of ants in pastures
  • {T} As a bait for control of ants in cereals, oilseeds, pulses and sugarcane

SUBSTITUTE

 

Pyriproxyfen

  • {T} As a bait for the control of ants in agricultural situations where direct contact will not occur with the commodity that is traded or consumed or where washing occurs after treatment’
  • {T} As a bait for control of ants in animal feed commodities, cereals, oilseeds, pulses and sugarcane