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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (MRL Standard for Residues of Chemical Products) Amendment Instrument (No. 5) 2025

I, Edward Cram, Delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, make the following instrument.

Dated    21 November 2025

Edward Cram

Delegate

 

  This instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (MRL Standard for Residues of Chemical Products) Amendment Instrument (No. 5) 2025.

 (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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

  This instrument is made under section 7A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

 

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)

Cyclobutrifluram

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

 

All other foods

0.05

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

 

All other foods

0.2

VO 0045

Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits

0.1

VO 0050

Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits

*0.01

 

 

 

Fluazinam

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

VR 0589

Potato

*0.01

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

VR 0589

Potato

T0.1

 

 

 

Mefentrifluconazole

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

GC 0640

Barley

0.2

GC 0647

Oats

0.2

SO 0495

Rape seed [canola]

0.05

GC 0654

Wheat

0.03

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

GC 0640

Barley

1.5

GC 0647

Oats

1.5

VD 0070

Pulses

1.5

SO 0495

Rape seed

0.05

GC 0654

Wheat

0.4

 

 

 

Pyraclostrobin

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

GC 0080

Cereal grains

*0.01

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

GC 0640

Barley

0.2

GC 0647

Oats

0.2

VD 0070

Pulses

1

SO 0495

Rape seed

*0.01

GC 0654

Wheat

0.2

 

 

 

Spinosad

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

VP 0061

Beans, except broad bean and soya bean

0.5

VP 0063

Peas

0.5

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

VP 0060

Legume vegetables

0.5

 

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

COMPOUND

FOOD

MRL (mg/kg)

Carboxin

 

 

SO 0697

Peanut

T0.01

 

 

 

Clothianidin

 

 

TN 0675

Pistachio nut

T0.05

 

 

 

Florfenicol

 

 

WD 0893

Salmon, Atlantic

T1

Ipconazole

 

 

SO 0697

Peanut

T*0.01

 

 

 

Isocycloseram

 

 

TN 0675

Pistachio nut

T*0.01

 

Omit each of the following compounds and associated foods and MRLs:

COMPOUND

FOOD

MRL (mg/kg)

Chlorthal-dimethyl

 

 

MO 0105

Edible offal (mammalian)

*0.05

PE 0112

Eggs

*0.05

VL 0482

Lettuce, head

2

VL 0483

Lettuce, leaf

2

MM 0095

Meat (mammalian)

*0.05

ML 0106

Milks

*0.05

HH 0740

Parsley

T2

PM 0110

Poultry meat

*0.05

PO 0111

Poultry, edible offal of

*0.05

 

Vegetables {except Lettuce}

5

 

4  Schedule 1, Table 4—Animal Feed Commodities

 

For each of the following compounds, omit the associated animal food commodities and MRLs listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated animal feed commodities and MRLs listed under 'substitute' (if any):

COMPOUND

ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY

MRL (mg/kg)

Cyclobutrifluram

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

 

Primary feed commodities {except Barley forage; Wheat forage}

1

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

 

Primary feed commodities {except Barley forage; Wheat forage}

2

Mefentrifluconazole

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

 

Rape seed [canola] forage and fodder

2

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

 

Pulse forage and fodder

30

 

Rape seed forage and fodder

3

 

 

 

Pyraclostrobin

 

 

OMIT:

 

 

AS 0081

Straw and fodder (dry) of cereal grains

0.5

SUBSTITUTE:

 

 

 

Pulse forage and fodder

15

AM 0495

Rape seed, forage

3

 

Rape seed straw and fodder

0.9

AS 0081

Straw and fodder (dry) of cereal grains

3

 

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

COMPOUND

ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY

MRL (mg/kg)

Carboxin

 

 

AL 1270

Peanut, forage (green)

T*0.01

 

Peanut hay

T0.01

Ipconazole

 

 

 

Peanut forage and fodder

T0.02

 

5  Schedule 1, Table 5—MRLs not necessary

 

Insert in alphabetical order the following new substances and associated uses:

SUBSTANCE

USE

Boric acid and borax

As herbicide synergists