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The document contains technical details on proposals to amend the 2016 Notice under the Food Act 2014 that lists the maximum residue levels
(MRLs) for agricultural compounds in New Zealand.
MPI proposes to add the following new MRLs to the MRL Notice:
- Abamectin: 0.01 (*) mg/kg when used on bulb onions, and 0.02 mg/kg when used on green onions;
- Aviglycine: 0.02 mg/kg when used on cherries;
- Bixafen: 0.05 mg/kg when used on barley;
- Cephapirin: 0.06 mg/kg in cattle milk;
- Cyproconazole: 0.05 mg/kg (*) when used on grapes; and 0.5 mg/kg in edible offal (mammals), 0.02 mg/kg in fat (mammalian), and 0.01 mg/kg in milk as a result of use in beets;
- Diclazuril: 1.0 mg/kg in cattle and sheep fat, 2.0 mg/kg in cattle and sheep kidney,
0.5 mg/kg in cattle and sheep muscle, and 3.0 mg/kg in cattle and sheep liver;
- Fenpyrazamine: 0.05 mg/kg when used on grapes;
- Fluopyram: 1.0 mg/kg when used on fruiting vegetables (except cucurbits);
- Fluxapyroxad: 0.02 mg/kg when used on pome fruits (apples and pears);
- Indoxacarb: 0.5 mg/kg when used on brassica vegetables (except cabbage);
3 mg/kg when used on cabbage; and 3 mg/kg when used on head lettuce;
- Meloxicam: 0.01 mg/kg in sheep fat and muscle, and 0.065 mg/kg in sheep liver and kidney;
- Metamitron: 0.01 mg/kg (*) when used on apples;
- Methoxyfenozide: 0.4 mg/kg when used on stone fruit;
- Prothioconazole: 0.1 mg/kg when used on barley;
- Spirotetramat: 0.2 mg/kg in apples;
- Thiamethoxam: 0.01 (*) mg/kg in bulb onions, and 0.2 mg/kg in green onions;
- Trifloxystrobin: 0.05 mg/kg in fat (mammalian), 0.04 mg/kg in kidney (mammalian), and 0.05 mg/kg in liver (mammalian) when used on sugar beets and fodder grown for animal feed;
- Trinexapac-ethyl: 0.05 mg/kg (*) of 4-(cyclopropyl-á-hydroxy-methylene)-3,5-dioxo-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid when used on cereal crops, and 0.2 mg/kg of trinexapac (acid) when used on cereal crops (except maize and sweet corns); and
- Tulathromycin: 0.45 mg/kg in sheep muscle,0.25 mg/kg in sheep fat, 5.4 mg/kg in sheep liver, and 1.8 mg/kg in sheep kidney.
Note: (*) indicates that the maximum residue level has been set at or about the limit of
analytical quantification.
MPI also proposes to add the following exceptions from MRLs to the MRL Notice:
- Mixtures of chito-oligosaccharides and oligogalacturonans, for use on fruits and vegetables;
- Ozone, for use as an agricultural chemical;
- Polyoxin D zinc salt, for use as an agricultural chemical;
- Prohydrojasmon, when used as a colour enhancer on apples.
And to amend existing exceptions as follows:
- Amend the entry for "Microbial Pesticide Organisms" to change the classification of these substances to "Microbial Active Ingredients";
- Amend the entry for "Bismuth and its salts" to include the use of intramammary teat sealants in cattle.
Finally, MPI have proposed to amend the residue definitions for the following compounds:
- Emamectin, to harmonise with overseas trading partners and Codex;
- Indoxacarb, to harmonise with the current definition set by Codex;
- Prothioconazole, to harmonise it with the current definition set by Codex in 2008;
- Trinexapac-ethyl, to correct errors in the current Notice entry
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