Australia - Proposal P1027, Managing Low Level Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals without Maximum Residue Limits Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has introduceProposal P1027 - Managing Low Level Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals without Maximum Residue Limits This Proposal seeks to include all other foods MRLs or the alternate all other foods except animal commodities MRLs, for the presence in food commodities of inadvertent residues of agricultural and veterinary (agvet) chemicals currently listed in Schedule 20 in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. It addresses the long-standing problem of the zero tolerance approach to the presence of low level inadvertent agvet chemical residues in food commodities (domestically produced and imported) sold in Australia. The all other foods MRLs were proposed using a pilot methodology developed for an initial sub-set of twenty-one chemicals already listed in the Code, based on case-by-case risk assessment including dietary exposure assessment. The all other foods MRLs apply to foods other than the primary commodity, raw agricultural commodity or derived foods that have MRLs currently listed in the Code for the particular chemical. Proposed Month of adoption: FSANZ Board approval anticipated September 2016. Final date for comments: 21 June 2016 | 
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