Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Nov 20, 2024
§ 180.408 - Metalaxyl; tolerances for residues.

(a) General. Tolerances are established for the combined residues of the fungicide metalaxyl [N-(2,6-dmethylphyenyl)-N-(methoxyacetyl) alanine methylester] and its metabolites containing the 2,6-dimethylaniline moiety, and N-(2-hydroxy methyl-6-methylphenyl)-N-(methoxyacetyl)-alanine methyl ester, each expressed as metalaxyl equivalents, in or on the following food commodities:

Table 1 to Paragraph (a)

Commodity Parts per million
Alfalfa, forage6.0
Alfalfa, hay20.0
Almond0.5
Almond, hulls10.0
Apple0.2
Apple, wet pomace0.4
Apricot, dried4.0
Asparagus7.0
Avocado4.0
Beet, garden, roots0.1
Beet, garden, tops0.1
Beet, sugar0.1
Beet, sugar, molasses1.0
Beet, sugar, roots0.5
Beet, sugar, tops10.0
Blueberry2.0
Broccoli2.0
Brussels sprouts2.0
Cabbage1.0
Cattle, fat0.4
Cattle, kidney0.4
Cattle, liver0.4
Cattle, meat0.05
Cattle, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver0.05
Cauliflower1.0
Citrus, oil7.0
Citrus, dried pulp7.0
Clover, forage1.0
Clover, hay2.5
Cotton, undelinted seed0.1
Cranberry4.0
Egg0.05
Fruit, citrus1.0
Fruit, stone, group 121.0
Ginseng3.0
Goat, fat0.4
Goat, kidney0.4
Goat, liver0.4
Goat, meat0.05
Goat, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver0.05
Grain, cereal, group 15, except barley, oat and wheat0.1
Grain, crop0.1
Grape2.0
Grape, raisin6.0
Grass, forage10.0
Grass, hay25.0
Hog, fat0.4
Hog, kidney0.4
Hog, liver0.4
Hog, meat0.05
Hog, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver0.05
Hop, dried cones20
Hop, vines2.0
Horse, fat0.4
Horse, kidney0.4
Horse, liver0.4
Horse, meat0.05
Horse, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver0.05
Lettuce, head5.0
Milk0.02
Mustard greens5.0
Onion, bulb3.0
Onion, green10.0
Peanut0.2
Peanut, hay20.0
Peanut, meal1.0
Peanut, hulls2.0
Pepper, black 10.3
Pineapple0.1
Pineapple, fodder0.1
Pineapple, forage0.1
Plum, prune, dried4.0
Potato, chips4.0
Potato, granules, flakes4.0
Potato, processed potato waste4.0
Potato, wet peel4.0
Poultry, fat0.4
Poultry, kidney0.4
Poultry, liver0.4
Poultry, meat0.05
Poultry, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver0.05
Potato0.5
Raspberry0.5
Sheep, fat0.4
Sheep, kidney0.4
Sheep, liver0.4
Sheep, meat0.05
Sheep, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver0.05
Soybean, hulls2.0
Soybean, meal2.0
Soybean, seed1.0
Spinach10.0
Strawberry10.0
Sunflower, seed0.1
Sunflower, forage0.1
Tomato, paste3.0
Tomato, puree3.0
Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5, except broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and mustard greens0.1
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 91.0
Vegetable, foilage of legume, group 78.0
Vegetable, fruiting, group 81.0
Vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 4, except spinach5.0
Vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 215.0
Vegetable, legume, cannery waste5.0
Vegetable, legume, group 60.2
Vegetable, root and tuber, group 10.5
Walnut0.5

1 There are no U.S. registrations for use of this pesticide on this commodity as of September 24, 2021.

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. Tolerances with regional registration (refer to § 180.1(m)) are established for the combined residues of the fungicide metalaxyl [N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-N-(methoxyacetyl) alanine methyl ester] and its metabolites containing the 2,6-dimethylaniline moiety, and N-(2-hydroxy methyl-6-methyl)-N-(methoxyacetyl)-alanine methylester, each expressed as metalaxyl, in or on the following raw agricultural commodity:

Commodity Parts per million
Papaya0.1

(d) Indirect or inadvertent tolerances. Tolerances are established for indirect or inadvertent residues of metalaxyl in or on the food commodities when present therein as a result of the application of metalaxyl to growing crops listed in paragraph (a) of this section and other non-food crops to read as follows:

Commodity Part per million
Barley, bran1.0
Barley, flour1.0
Barley, grain0.2
Barley, pearled barley1.0
Barley, straw2.0
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except barley, oat, and wheat; forage1.0
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except barley, oat, and wheat; stover1.0
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except barley, oat, and wheat; straw1.0
Oat, flour1.0
Oat, forage2.0
Oat, grain0.2
Oat, groats, rolled oats1.0
Oat, straw2.0
Wheat, bran1.0
Wheat, flour1.0
Wheat, forage2.0
Wheat, germ1.0
Wheat, grain0.2
Wheat, middlings1.0
Wheat, shorts1.0
Wheat, straw2.0
[65 FR 33700, May 24, 2000, as amended at 72 FR 35666, June 29, 2007; 74 FR 46374, Sept. 9, 2009; 75 FR 56015, Sept. 15, 2010; 86 FR 53009, Sept. 24, 2021]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371
source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 180.408