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Proposals to Amend the New Zealand (Maximum Residue Limits of Agricultural Compounds) Food Standards 2008

Summary of Proposed Amendment

New MRLs

NZFSA proposes to add the following new MRLs to the Standards:

• 0.0003mg/kg for chloramphenicol in any food

• 0.3mg/kg for chlorantraniliprole in brassica vegetables and pomefruit;

• 0.05mg/kg for cymoxanil in garlic, onions and potatoes;

• 1mg/kg for cyprodinil in strawberries;

• 1mg/kg for fludioxinil in strawberries;

• 0.2mg/kg for formetanate hydrochloride in onions;

• 0.15mg/kg for lincomycin in cattle milk;

• 0.02mg/kg for myclobutanil in cucurbits (inedible peel);

• 1.5mg/kg for neomycin in cattle milk as a replacement for 0.5mg/kg for neomycin in cattle milk; and

• 0.05mg/kg for spinosad in tomatoes as a replacement for 0.01mg/kg for spinosad in tomatoes.

New MRL Exemptions

NZFSA proposes to add the following MRL exemption to the Standards:

• Chlorhexidine and its digluconate salt when applied as a topical antiseptic to all food producing species except fish.