National maximum residue limits reported to the Meeting are listed below. In many cases national authorities have adopted Codex MRLs for animal commodities but several members of the European Union (underlined) will reportedly change to European Union MRLs in 1997.
|
Commodity |
Country |
MRL, mg/kg |
|
Products of plant origin |
||
|
Cereals |
Australia |
0.1 |
|
Netherlands, Poland |
0.05 |
|
|
Citrus fruits |
Australia |
0.7 |
|
Fruits (except citrus, olives, peach) |
Australia |
0.5 |
|
Kiwifruit |
Australia |
0.5 |
|
Nuts |
Australia (tree nuts) |
0.1 |
|
Netherlands |
0.1 |
|
|
Oilseed |
Netherlands |
0.1 |
|
Olive oil, crude |
Australia |
2 |
|
Olives, unprocessed |
Australia |
2 |
|
"Other foods" |
Netherlands |
01 (0.02) |
|
"Other fruits" |
Netherlands |
0.5 |
|
Peach |
Australia |
0.7 |
|
Potato |
Netherlands |
0.021 |
|
Sugar cane |
Australia |
0.5 |
|
Sweet corn (corn-on-the-cob) |
Australia |
0.7 |
|
Netherlands |
0.7 |
|
|
Vegetable oils (except olive oil, crude) |
Australia |
0.1 |
|
Vegetables |
Australia |
0.7 |
|
Products of animal origin |
||
|
Edible offal (mammalian) |
Australia |
0.7 |
|
Eggs |
Australia |
0.05* |
|
Milk |
Australia |
0.5 (in the fat) |
|
Canada |
0.1 (ear tag uses) |
|
|
Austria. Chile, China, Columbia, Egypt, Finland, France. Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal. Saudi Arabia, Spain. Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, UK, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam. |
0.02 |
|
|
Meat (mammalian) |
Canada |
0.1 (ear tag uses) |
|
Switzerland |
0.2 |
|
|
Argentina, Australia, Austria. Chile, China, Columbia, Egypt, Finland, France, Iraq, Ireland. Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, UK. United Arab Emirates, USA, Vietnam. |
0.7 (fat basis) |
|
|
Poultry, edible offal of |
Australia |
0.05* |
|
Poultry meat |
Australia |
0.05* |
1 Limit of detection
* At or about the limit of determination
