A455-MRL Initial Draft Assess Exec Summ

( For Australia only )

Inital / Draft Assessment Report

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EXECUTIVESUMMARY

  • This Application (A455) seeks to amend Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for non-antibiotic agricultural and veterinary chemicals in the Food Standards Code. It 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 agricultural and veterinary chemicals in use in Australia.

  • 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 MRLs will now be incorporated into Volumes 1 and 2 of the Food Standards Code tandard 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 from the joint Australia New Zealand food standards setting system. Australia and New Zealand independently and separately develop MRLs for agricultural and veterinary chemicals in food.

  • The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care has undertaken an appropriate toxicological assessment of the agricultural and veterinary chemicals and has established relevant acceptable daily intakes(ADI).

  • The dietary exposure assessments indicate that the residues associated with the proposed MRLs for agricultural and veterinary chemicals do not represent an unacceptable risk to public health and safety.

  • None of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority' s (ANZFA' s) section 10 objectives of food regulatory measures are compromised by the proposed changes.

  • There are no MRLs for antibiotic residues in this Application.

  • ANZFA will make a Sanitary and Phytosanitary notification to the World Trade Organization.

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