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Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Nov 20, 2024
§ 180.449 - Avermectin B1 and its delta-8,9-isomer; tolerances for residues.

(a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of abamectin, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities in the following table. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified in the following table is to be determined by measuring only avermectin B1 a mixture of avermectins containing greater than or equal to 80% avermectin B1 a (5-O-demethyl avermectin A1) and less than or equal to 20% avermectin B1b (5-O-demethyl-25-de(1-methylpropyl)-25-(1-methylethyl) avermectin A1) and its delta-8,9-isomer in or on the following commodities:

Commodity Parts per
million
Acerola0.015
Almond, hulls0.10
Apple, wet pomace0.10
Arugula0.1
Avocado0.020
Banana 10.006
Bean0.015
Berry, low growing, subgroup 13-07G0.05
Black sapote0.40
Caneberry subgroup 13-07A0.20
Canistel0.40
Carrot, roots0.03
Cattle, fat0.05
Cattle, meat0.02
Cattle, meat byproducts0.09
Celeriac, roots0.05
Celeriac, tops0.05
Celtuce0.1
Chive, dried leaves0.02
Chive, fresh leaves0.01
Citrus, dried pulp0.10
Citrus, oil0.10
Corn, sweet, forage0.20
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husk removed0.01
Corn, sweet, stover0.50
Cotton, gin byproducts1.0
Cotton, undelinted seed0.02
Feijoa0.015
Fennel, Florence, fresh leaves and stalk0.1
Food products in food handling establishments (other than those already covered by higher tolerances as a result of use on growing crops, and other than those already covered by tolerances on milk, meat, and meat byproducts)0.01
Fruit, citrus, group 10-100.02
Fruit, pome, group 11-100.02
Fruit, small vine climbing, except fuzzy kiwifruit, subgroup 13-07F0.02
Fruit, stone, group 12-120.09
Garden cress0.1
Goat, fat0.03
Goat, meat0.02
Goat, meat byproducts0.04
Grain, aspirated grain fractions0.40
Guava0.015
Herb subgroup 19A, except chive0.030
Hog, fat0.01
Hog, meat0.02
Hog, meat byproducts0.02
Hop, dried cones0.20
Horse, fat0.03
Horse, meat0.02
Horse, meat byproducts0.04
Jaboticaba0.015
Leaf petiole vegetable subgroup 22B0.1
Leafy greens subgroup 4-16A0.1
Longan0.01
Mamey sapote0.40
Milk0.015
Nut, tree, group 14-120.01
Onion, bulb, subgroup 3-07A0.01
Onion, green, subgroup 3-07B0.08
Papaya0.40
Passionfruit0.015
Peppermint, tops0.010
Pineapple0.015
Plum, prune, dried0.025
Poultry, meat0.02
Poultry, meat byproducts0.02
Pulasan0.01
Rambutan0.01
Sapodilla0.40
Sheep, fat0.03
Sheep, meat0.02
Sheep, meat byproducts0.04
Soybean, forage0.30
Soybean, hay1.0
Soybean, seed0.01
Spanish lime0.01
Spearmint, tops0.010
Star apple0.40
Starfruit0.015
Tea, dried 11.0
Tropical and subtropical, small fruit, inedible peel, subgroup 24A0.01
Upland cress0.1
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 90.005
Vegetable, fruiting, group 8-100.07
Vegetable, legume, dried shelled, except soybean, subgroup 6C0.01
Vegetable, legume, edible podded, subgroup 6A0.08
Vegetable, legume, succulent shelled, subgroup 6B0.08
Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 01C0.01
Wax jambu0.015

1 There are no U.S. registrations for use of abamectin on banana or tea.

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]

[62 FR 44095, Aug. 19, 1997] Editorial Note:For Federal Register citations affecting § 180.449, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and at www.govinfo.gov.
authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371
source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 180.449