Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 3, 2012
I, Rajumati Bhula, Program Manager, Pesticides Program and delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority for the relevant purposes pursuant to 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.
Rajumati Bhula
Program Manager
Pesticides Program
Dated this twenty-first day of March 2012
Part 1 Preliminary
This Instrument is the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument
No. APVMA 3, 2012
Pursuant to subsection 82(8) of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991, this Amendment Instrument commences on the day a copy of 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 No. APVMA 6 of
27 March 2012
The object of this Instrument is for the APVMA to make variations to Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code to include or change maximum residue limits pertaining to agricultural and veterinary chemical products.
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 Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits of 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. The whole of the Australia New Zealand Food Standard Code (including Standard 1.4.2) was further published in Gazette P 30 of 20 December 2000[1].
Part 2 Variations to Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits
5 Variations to Standard 1.4.2
The Schedule to this Instrument sets out the variations made to the Principal Instrument by this Amendment Instrument.
Variations to Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits
1 Variations
(1) The Principal Instrument is varied by:
(a) omitting from Schedule 1 all entries for the following chemicals –
Bupivacaine
Cetrimide
Lignocaine
(b) inserting in Schedule 1 –
Saflufenacil | |
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 Commodities of animal origin: Saflufenacil | |
Cereal grains | *0.03 |
Citrus fruits | *0.03 |
Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.01 |
Eggs | *0.01 |
Grapes | *0.03 |
Legume vegetables | *0.03 |
Meat (mammalian) | *0.01 |
Milks | *0.01 |
Oilseed | *0.03 |
Pome fruits | *0.03 |
Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
Poultry meat | *0.01 |
Pulses | *0.03 |
Stone fruits | *0.03 |
Tree nuts | *0.03 |
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(c) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –
Chlorantraniliprole | |
Plant commodities and animal commodities other than milk: Chlorantraniliprole Milk: Sum of chlorantraniliprole, 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[(methylamino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, and 3-bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-[[((hydroxymethyl)amino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1-(3-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide, expressed as chlorantraniliprole | |
Almonds | T0.05 |
Pistachio nut | T0.05 |
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Clothianidin | |
Clothianidin | |
Maize | T*0.01 |
Rape seed (canola) | T*0.01 |
Sorghum | T*0.01 |
Sunflower seed | T*0.01 |
Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob) | T*0.01 |
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Sethoxydim | |
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 | |
Brassica leafy vegetables | T2 |
Chicory leaves | T2 |
Onion, Welsh | 0.7 |
Radicchio | T2 |
Shallot | 0.7 |
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(d) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –
Sethoxydim | |
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 | |
Endive | T2 |
Leek | 0.7 |
Rucola (rocket) | T2 |
Spring onion | 0.7 |
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