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Schedule 21 – Extraneous Residue Limits – Food Standards (Proposal P1025 – Code Revision) Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Amendment No. 154

The Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this standard under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991.

The Standard commences on 1 March 2016.

Dated 25 March 2015

Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

Note:

This Standard will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 96 on 10 April 2015.

Note 1 This instrument is a standard under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). The standards together make up the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. See also section 1.1.1—3.

Extraneous residue limits are regulated by subsection 1.1.1—10(5) and Standard 1.4.2. This Standard identifies *active constituents of agvet chemicals, and their permitted residues, for the purpose of section 1.4.2—5.

Note 2 This Standard applies in Australia only. In New Zealand, extraneous residue limits for agricultural compounds are set out in a Maximum Residue Limits Standard.

S21—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 21 – Extraneous residue limits.

Note Commencement: This Standard commences on 1 March 2016, being the date specified as the commencement date in notices in the Gazette and the New Zealand Gazette under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). See also section 93 of that Act.

S21—2 Interpretation

In this Schedule:

(a) an asterisk (*) indicates that the *ERL is set at the limit of determination; and

(b) the symbol ‘T’ indicates that the ERL is a temporary ERL; and

(c) the symbol ‘E’ indicates an ERL.

S21—3 Extraneous residue limits

For section 1.4.2—5, the *agvet chemicals, permitted residues, and amounts are as follows, expressed in mg per kg:

Extraneous residue limits

Agvet chemical: Aldrin and Dieldrin
Permitted residue: Sum of HHDN and HEOD
Asparagus E0.1
Banana E0.05
Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables, Head cabbages, Flowerhead brassicas E0.1
Cereal grains E0.02
Citrus fruits E0.05
Crustaceans E0.1
Diadromous fish E0.1
Edible offal (mammalian) E0.2
Egg plant E0.1
Eggs E0.1
Freshwater fish E0.1
Fruit E0.05
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits E0.1
Lettuce, head E0.1
Lettuce, leaf E0.1
Marine fish E0.1
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) E0.2
Milks (in the fat) E0.15
Molluscs (including cephalopods) E0.1
Onion, bulb E0.1
Peanut E0.05
Peppers, sweet E0.1
Pimento, fruit E0.1
Poultry, edible offal of E0.2
Poultry meat (in the fat) E0.2
Radish leaves (including radish tops) E0.1
Root and tuber vegetables E0.1
Sugar cane E*0.01

 

Agvet chemical: BHC (other than the gamma isomer, Lindane)
Permitted residue: Sum of isomers of 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane, other than lindane
Cereal grains E0.1
Crustaceans E0.01
Edible offal (mammalian) E0.3
Eggs E0.1
Fish E0.01
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) E0.3
Milks (in the fat) E0.1
Molluscs (including cephalopods) E0.01
Peanut E0.1
Poultry, edible offal of E0.3
Poultry meat (in the fat) E0.3
Sugar cane E0.005

 

Agvet chemical: Chlordane
Permitted residue: Sum of cis- and trans-chlordane and in the case of animal products also includes ‘oxychlordane’
Cereal grains E0.02
Citrus fruits E0.02
Cotton seed oil, crude E0.05
Cotton seed oil, edible E0.02
Crustaceans E0.05
Edible offal (mammalian) E0.02
Eggs E0.02
Fish E0.05
Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits E0.05
Linseed oil, crude E0.05
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) E0.2
Milks (in the fat) E0.05
Molluscs (including cephalopods) E0.05
Pineapple E0.02
Pome fruits E0.02
Soya bean oil, crude E0.05
Soya bean oil, refined E0.02
Stone fruits E0.02
Sugar beet E0.1
Vegetables [except as otherwise listed under this chemical] E0.02

 

Agvet chemical: DDT
Permitted residue: Sum of p,p ′-DDT; o,p ′-DDT; p,p ′-DDE and p,p ′-TDE (DDD)
Cereal grains E0.1
Crustaceans E1
Edible offal (mammalian) E5
Eggs E0.5
Fish E1
Fruit E1
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) E5
Milks (in the fat) E1.25
Molluscs (including cephalopods) E1
Peanut E0.02
Poultry, edible offal of E5
Poultry meat (in the fat) E5
Vegetable oils, edible E1
Vegetables E1

 

Agvet chemical: HCB
Permitted residue: Hexachlorobenzene
Cereal grains E0.05
Crustaceans E0.1
Diadromous fish E0.1
Edible offal (mammalian) E1
Eggs E1
Freshwater fish E0.1
Marine fish E0.1
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) E1
Milks (in the fat) E0.5
Molluscs (including cephalopods) E0.1
Peanut E0.01
Poultry, edible offal of E1
Poultry meat (in the fat) E1

 

Agvet chemical: Heptachlor
Permitted residue: Sum of heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide
Carrot E0.2
Cereal grains E0.02
Citrus fruits E0.01
Cotton seed E0.02
Crustaceans E0.05
Edible offal (mammalian) E0.2
Eggs E0.05
Fish E0.05
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) E0.2
Milks (in the fat) E0.15
Molluscs (including cephalopods) E0.05
Peanut E0.01
Pineapple E0.01
Poultry, edible offal of E0.2
Poultry meat E0.2
Soya bean E0.02
Soya bean oil, crude E0.5
Soya bean oil, refined E0.02
Sugar cane E0.02
Tomato E0.02
Vegetables [except as otherwise listed under this chemical] E0.05

 

Agvet chemical: Lindane
Permitted residue: Lindane
Apple E2
Cereal grains E0.5
Cherries E0.5
Cranberry E3
Crustaceans E1
Edible offal (mammalian) E2
Eggs E0.1
Fish E1
Fruits [except as otherwise listed in Schedules 1 and 2] E0.5
Grapes E0.5
Meat (mammalian) (in the fat) E2
Milks (in the fat) E0.2
Molluscs (including cephalopods) E1
Oilseed [except peanut] E0.05
Peach E2
Peanut E0.05
Plums (including prunes) E0.5
Poultry, edible offal of E0.7
Poultry meat (in the fat) E0.7
Strawberry E3
Sugar cane E*0.002
Vegetables E2