The document contains technical details on proposals to amend the current Notice issued under the Food Act 2014 that lists the maximum residue levels (MRLs) for agricultural compounds in New Zealand. MPI proposes the following amendments to the Notice:
a) The amendment of existing entries in Schedule 1, Maximum Residue Levels for Agricultural Compounds, for the following compounds and commodities:
• Acephate, to change the residue definition and MRLs to account for consequential residues from the acephate metabolite methamidophos;
• Decoquinate, to set MRLs at 1 mg/kg in cattle fat, kidney and liver, and 0.5 mg/kg in cattle meat; 1 mg/kg in goat fat, kidney and liver, and 0.5 mg/kg in goat meat; 1 mg/kg in sheep fat, kidney and liver, and 0.5 mg/kg in sheep meat; and 0.8 mg/kg in poultry liver and skin/fat;
• Fenamiphos, to remove commodity-specific MRLs and set an MRL of 0.01(*) mg/kg for any food, to reflect that fenamiphos can no longer be used in agricultural compounds in New Zealand;
• Glyphosate, to set MRLs at 10 mg/kg in wheat, barley and oat; and 6 mg/kg in field pea (dry);
• Haloxyfop, to set MRLs at 0.02 mg/kg in mammalian meat and fat, 0.5 mg/kg in mammalian offal, and 0.002(*) mg/kg in milk;
• Maduramicin, to set MRLs at 0.1 mg/kg in poultry kidney, skin/fat, and meat;
• Methamidophos, to remove commodity-specific MRLs, and to refer to the acephate entry to reflect that while methamidophos can no longer be used in agricultural compounds in New Zealand, it may be detected as a result of acephate use;
• Monensin, to adjust the residue definition to 'monensin' and to set MRLs at 0.002(*) mg/kg in milk; 0.05 mg/kg in cattle fat and liver, and 0.01(*) mg/kg in cattle kidney and meat; 0.05 mg/kg in goat fat and liver, and 0.01(*) mg/kg in goat kidney and meat; 0.05 mg/kg in sheep fat and liver, and 0.01(*) mg/kg in sheep kidney and meat; and 0.1 mg/kg in poultry kidney, liver, and skin/fat, and 0.05 mg/kg in poultry meat;
• Narasin, to set MRLs at 0.015 mg/kg in poultry kidney and meat, and 0.05 mg/kg in poultry liver and skin/fat;
• Oxathiapiprolin, to set an MRL at 0.01(*) mg/kg in potatoes; • Salinomycin, to set MRLs at 0.1 mg/kg in pig fat, kidney, liver, and meat, and 0.1 mg/kg in poultry kidney, skin/fat, and meat; and
• Semduramicin, to set MRLs at 0.1 mg/kg in poultry kidney, skin/fat, and meat.
b) The addition of two new entries in Schedule 1, for the following compounds and commodities:
• Acetochlor, to set MRLs at 0.02(*) mg/kg in eggs, mammalian fat, mammalian meat, mammalian offal, milk, poultry fat, poultry meat, and poultry offal; and 0.04 (*) mg/kg in maize and sweetcorn; and
• Flupyradifurone, to set MRLs at 0.1 mg/kg for mammalian meat and fat, 0.4 mg/kg in mammalian offal and 0.05 mg/kg in milk.
Note: (*) indicates that the maximum residue level has been set at or about the limit of analytical quantification.
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