A447Initial Ass Exec Summary

12 December 2001

06/02

Initial/Draft Assessment

[Preliminary Assessment - s.13 and Full Assessment - s.15] s.36

DEADLINE FOR PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS to the Authority in relation to this matter:
23 JANUARY 2002
(See ' Invitation for Public Submissions ' for details)

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  • On 24 November 2000, the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council (ANZFSC) adopted the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (published as Volume 2 of the Food Standards Code ). Subsequently all applications to amend maximum residue limits (MRLs) will now also be incorporated into Volumes 1 and 2 of the Food Standards Code (Standard A14 and Standard 1.4.2 respectively). Consequently all references throughout this document to the Food Standards Code are references to both Volumes 1 and 2 of the Food Standards Code.
  • The agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of New Zealand to establish a system for the development of joint food standards (the Treaty) excluded MRLs for agricultural and veterinary chemicals in food. Australia and New Zealand separately develop MRLs for agricultural and veterinary chemicals in food.
  • The current Application (A447) is a routine application from the National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (NRA), to update the Food Standards Code in order to reflect current registration status of chemicals in agricultural and veterinary use in Australia.
  • There are no MRLs for antibiotic residues in this application.
  • The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care has undertaken an appropriate toxicological assessment of the chemicals and where appropriate has set an acceptable daily intake(ADI).
  • ANZFA is satisfied from the accompanying dietary modelling performed that the residues associated with the proposed MRLs do not represent an unacceptable risk to public health and safety.
  • None of ANZFA' s section 10 objectives are compromised by the proposed changes.
  • The Regulatory Impact Assessment supports the requested MRLs. ANZFA considers that this does constitute a potential Sanitary and Phytosanitary matter and will raise a World Trade Organization (WTO) notification.

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