Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument No. APVMA 2, 2016

I, Rajumati Bhula, Executive Director, Scientific Assessment and Chemical Review and 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.

Rajumati Bhula

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

Dated this First day of February 2016

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Instrument

  This Instrument is the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits Amendment Instrument
No. APVMA 2, 2016.

2 Commencement

  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 3 of
9 February 2016.

3 Object

  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. 

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 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.

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. 

Schedule

Variations to Standard 1.4.2 — Maximum Residue Limits

1 Variations

(1)                  The Principal Instrument is varied by:

(a) omitting from Schedule 1 the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –

(b) inserting in alphabetical order in Schedule 1, the foods and associated MRLs for each of the following chemicals –

(c) omitting from Schedule 1, under the entries for the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food, substituting –