Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Code —
Schedule 20 — Maximum residue limits Variation Instrument No. APVMA 8, 2018
I, Jason Lutze, 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.
Jason Lutze
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Dated this Sixteenth day of October 2018
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 8, 2018.
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 No APVMA 21 of 23 October 2018.
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] omitting from each of the following chemicals, the foods and associated MRLs
Avget chemical: Maldison | |
Permitted residue: Maldison | |
Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits | 3 |
Avget chemical: Methomyl | |
Permitted residue: Methomyl | |
Persimmon, American | T0.2 |
[1.2] inserting for each of the following chemicals the foods and associated MRLs in alphabetical order
Avget chemical: Cypermethrin | |
Permitted residue: Cypermethrin, sum of isomers | |
Peanut | T*0.05 |
Avget chemical: Flamprop-methyl | |
Permitted residue: Flamprop-methyl | |
Chick-pea (dry) | *0.01 |
Eggs | *0.01 |
Poultry, edible offal of | *0.01 |
Poultry meat | *0.01 |
Avget chemical: Maldison | |
Permitted residue: Maldison | |
All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.05 |
Fruiting vegetables, other the cucurbits [except peppers, sweet] | 3 |
Peppers, sweet | T5 |
Avget chemical: Pymetrozine | ||
Permitted residue: Pymetrozine | ||
All other foods except animal food commodities | 0.02 | |
Broad bean (dry) | T0.02 | |
Lupin (dry) | T0.02 | |
Avget chemical: Quintozene | ||
Permitted residue: Sum of quintozene, pentachloroaniline and methyl pentacholorophenyl sulfide, expressed as quintozene | ||
Beans, except broad bean and soya bean | 0.01 | |
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, head cabbages, flowerhead brassicas | 0.2
| |
Broad bean (green pods and immature seeds) | 0.01 | |
Common bean (dry) (navy bean) | 0.2 | |
Cotton seed | 0.03 | |
Edible offal (mammalian) | *0.1 | |
Eggs | *0.03 | |
Lettuce, head | 0.3 | |
Lettuce, leaf | 0.3 | |
Meat (mammalian)(in the fat) | *0.2 | |
Milks | *0.02 | |
Potato | 0.2 | |
Poultry, Edible offal of | *0.1 | |
Poultry meat (in the fat) | *0.1 | |
Tomato | 0.1 | |
[1.3] omitting for each of the following chemicals, the maximum residue limit for the food and substituting
Avget chemical: Chlorantraniliprole | |
Permitted residue—plant commodities and animal commodities other than milk: Chlorantraniliprole Permitted residue—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 | 0.1 |
Avget chemical: Methomyl l | |
Permitted residue: Methomyl | |
Persimmon, American | T0.05 |
Agvet chemical: Propiconazole |
Permitted residue: Propiconazole |
Citrus fruits 7 |
Agvet chemical: Sedaxane |
|
Permitted residue: Sedaxane, sum of isomers | |
Potato 0.1 | |