EPA to establish MRLs for three ais

Date:08-18-2011

The EPA is seeking public comments by October 17 of tolerance residues for three ais, they are: Arysta LifeScience’s fungicide fluoxastrobin; Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR-4)’s fungicide metconazole; Syngenta’s insecticide thiamethoxam.

Proposed tolerance residues MRLs of the ais on crops and commodities are listed below:

Fluoxastrobin

Commodity	Parts per million
Squash/cucumber subgroup 9B	0.50

Metconazole

Commodity	Parts per million
Almond, hulls	4.0
Banana1	0.1
Barley, grain	2.5
Barley, hay	7.0
Barley, straw	7.0
Beet, sugar, dried pulp	0.70
Beet, sugar, molasses	0.08
Beet, sugar, roots	0.07
Bushberry subgroup 13-07B	0.40
Canola seed	0.04
Cattle, meat byproducts	0.04
Corn, field, forage	3.0
Corn, field, grain	0.02
Corn, field, stover	4.5
Corn, pop, grain	0.02
Corn, pop, stover	4.5
Corn, sweet, forage	3.0
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed	0.01
Corn, sweet, stover	4.5
Cotton, gin byproducts	8.0
Cotton, undelinted seed	0.25
Egg	0.04
Fruit, stone, group 12	0.20
Goat, meat byproducts	0.04
Grain, aspirated grain fractions	7.0
Horse, meat byproducts	0.04
Nut, tree, group 14	0.04
Oat, grain	1.0
Oat, hay	17
Oat, straw	6.0
Peanut	0.04
Peanut, refined oil	0.05
Pistachio	0.04
Rye, grain	0.25
Rye, straw	14
Sheep, meat byproducts	0.04
Soybean, forage	3.0
Soybean, hay	6.0
Soybean, hulls	0.08
Soybean, seed	0.05
Vegetable, tuberous and corn, subgroup 1C	0.04
Wheat, grain	0.15
Wheat, hay	16
Wheat, milled byproducts	0.20
Wheat, straw	18

Thiamethoxam

Commodity	Parts per million
Alfalfa, forage	0.05
Alfalfa, hay	0.12
Food commodities and feed commodities (other than those covered by a higher tolerance as a result of use on growing crops) in food/feed handling establishments	0.02
Peanut	0.05
Peanut, hay	0.25
Peanut, meal	0.15