animal food commodities MRLs Importers Association established for the 19 chemicals Safe Food Production used to the approach as the Queensland (Safe Food) levels are assessed as not Australian Food and posing health concerns to Grocery Council consumers. Victorian Departments of Health and Human The approach allows control of Services, and Economic use regulators to take actions Development, Jobs, required to improve chemical Transport and Resources use practices food Queensland Department producers. of Health The approach is not appropriate Queensland Department of Agree. for highly toxic chemicals and Health those not permitted for use in The technical paper that accompanied the 2nd CFS assessment summary showed primary food production. the use of a robust risk assessment process including dietary exposure assessment for the Australian population for each agvet chemical. For an All other foods except animal food commodities MRL to be considered the agvet chemicals must already be listed in Schedule 20. To further ensure that the established All foods except animal food commodities MRLs do not pose any public health and safety concerns, niche chemicals, vertebrate poisons and chemicals listed only in Schedule 7 of the Poisons Standard (the SUSMP), were excluded. Support FSANZ’s decision not to Safe Food Production adopt the Default MRL approach Queensland which does not address the CropLife Australia The P1027 approach overcomes the limitations of the Default MRL model, increasing sensitivity of recognises the potential for increased detection of low levels of agvet chemicals with analytical methods to detect low advances in analytical technology, and complies with the Ministerial Policy Guideline level agvet chemical residues in on the Regulation of Residues of Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals in Food. The food commodities. approach adopted as a result ensures that for each agvet chemical, the residue level permitted has been assessed, does not exceed the relevant health based guidance value and does not pose public health and safety concerns to consumers. Propose use of a provisional or Australia Disagree. complementary for Australian Grape and Default MRL all the agvet chemicals in the Wine Authority The aim of the Proposal and the approach developed does not for the use of Code until All other foods except Producers Australia interim Default MRLs.
animal food commodities MRLs established for the 19 chemicals used to the approach as the levels are assessed as not posing health concerns to consumers. The approach allows control of use regulators to take actions required to improve chemical use practices food producers. Importers Association Safe Food Production Queensland (Safe Food) Australian Food and Grocery Council Victorian Departments of Health and Human Services, and Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources Queensland Department of Health The approach is not appropriate for highly toxic chemicals and those not permitted for use in primary food production. Queensland Department of Health Agree. The technical paper that accompanied the 2nd CFS assessment summary showed the use of a robust risk assessment process including dietary exposure assessment for the Australian population for each agvet chemical. For an All other foods except animal food commodities MRL to be considered the agvet chemicals must already be listed in Schedule 20. To further ensure that the established All foods except animal food commodities MRLs do not pose any public health and safety concerns, niche chemicals, vertebrate poisons and chemicals listed only in Schedule 7 of the Poisons Standard (the SUSMP), were excluded. Support FSANZ’s decision not to adopt the Default MRL approach which does not address the increasing sensitivity of analytical methods to detect low level agvet chemical residues in food commodities. Safe Food Production Queensland CropLife Australia The P1027 approach overcomes the limitations of the Default MRL model, recognises the potential for increased detection of low levels of agvet chemicals with advances in analytical technology, and complies with the Ministerial Policy Guideline on the Regulation of Residues of Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals in Food. The approach adopted as a result ensures that for each agvet chemical, the residue level permitted has been assessed, does not exceed the relevant health based guidance value and does not pose public health and safety concerns to consumers. Propose use of a provisional or complementary Default MRL for all the agvet chemicals in the Code until All other foods except Australia Australian Grape and Wine Authority Producers Australia Disagree. The aim of the Proposal and the approach developed does not for the use of interim Default MRLs.
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