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

(a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of the insecticide imidacloprid, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities in the table below. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of imidacloprid (1-[6-chloro-3-pyridinyl) methyl]-N-nitro-2-imidazolidinimine) and its metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinyl moiety, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of imidacloprid, in or on the following commodities:

Commodity Parts per million
Acerola1.0
Almond, hulls4.0
Apple0.5
Apple, wet pomace3.0
Artichoke, globe2.5
Aspirated grain fractions240
Atemoya0.30
Avocado1.0
Banana0.50
Beet, sugar, molasses0.30
Beet, sugar, roots0.05
Beet, sugar, tops0.50
Biriba0.30
Blueberry3.5
Borage, seed0.05
Caneberry, subgroup 13-A2.5
Canistel1.0
Canola, seed0.05
Cattle, fat0.30
Cattle, meat0.30
Cattle, meat byproducts0.30
Cherimoya0.30
Citrus, dried pulp5.0
Coffee, bean, green0.80
Cotton, gin byproducts4.0
Cotton, meal8.0
Cotton, undelinted seed6.0
Crambe, seed0.05
Cranberry0.05
Currant3.5
Custard apple0.30
Egg0.02
Elderberry3.5
Feijoa1.0
Fish0.05
Fish-shellfish, mollusc0.05
Flax, seed0.05
Fruit, citrus, group 100.70
Fruit, pome, group 110.6
Fruit, stone, group 123.0
Goat, fat0.30
Goat, meat0.30
Goat, meat byproducts0.30
Gooseberry3.5
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, forage, except rice7.0
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, hay, except rice6.0
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, stover, except rice0.30
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, straw, except rice3.0
Grain, cereal, group 15, except rice0.05
Grape1.0
Grape, juice1.5
Grape, raisin1.5
Guava1.0
Herbs subgroup 19A, dried herbs48
Herbs subgroup 19-A, fresh herbs8.0
Hog, fat0.30
Hog, meat0.30
Hog, meat byproducts0.30
Hop, dried cones6.0
Horse, fat0.30
Horse, meat0.30
Horse, meat byproducts0.30
Huckleberry3.5
Ilama0.30
Jaboticaba1.0
Juneberry3.5
Kava, leaves4.0
Kava, roots0.40
Leaf petioles subgroup 4B6.0
Leafy greens subgroup 4A3.5
Lettuce, head3.5
Lettuce, leaf3.5
Lingonberry3.5
Longan3.0
Lychee3.0
Mango1.0
Milk0.10
Mustard, black, seed0.05
Mustard, field, seed0.05
Mustard, Indian, seed0.05
Mustard, rapeseed, seed0.05
Mustard, seed0.05
Nut, tree, group 140.05
Okra1.0
Onion, dry bulbs, subgroup 3-07A0.15
Onion, green, subgroup 3-07B2.5
Papaya1.0
Passionfruit1.0
Peanut0.45
Peanut, hay35
Peanut, meal0.75
Pecan0.05
Persimmon3.0
Pistachio0.05
Pomegranate0.90
Potato, chip0.40
Potato, processed potato waste0.90
Poultry, fat0.05
Poultry, meat0.05
Poultry, meat byproducts0.05
Pulasan3.0
Rambutan3.0
Rapeseed, seed0.05
Raspberry, wild2.5
Safflower, seed0.05
Salal3.5
Sapodilla1.0
Sapote, black1.0
Sapote, mamey1.0
Sheep, fat0.30
Sheep, meat0.30
Sheep, meat byproducts0.30
Soursop0.30
Soybean, forage8.0
Soybean, hay35
Soybean, meal4.0
Soybean, seed3.5
Spanish lime3.0
Star apple1.0
Starfruit1.0
Strawberry0.50
Sugar apple0.30
Sunflower, seed0.05
Tomato, paste6.0
Tomato, puree3.0
Vegetable, brassica leafy, group 53.5
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 90.5
Vegetable, fruiting, group 81.0
Vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 24.0
Vegetable, legume, group 6, except soybean4.0
Vegetable, root and tuber, group 1, except sugar beet0.40
Watercress3.5
Watercress, upland3.5
Wax jambu1.0

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. Time-limited tolerances are established for residues of the insecticide imidacloprid, including its metabolites and degradates in connection with use of the pesticide under a Section 18 emergency exemption granted by EPA. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of imidacloprid (1-[6-chloro-3-pyridinyl)methyl]-N-nitro-2-imidazolidinimine) and its metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinyl moiety, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of imidacloprid. These tolerances will expire and are revoked on the dates specified in the following table:

Commodity Parts per million Expiration/revocation date
Sugarcane, cane6.012/31/18
Sugarcane, molasses5012/31/18

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. Tolerances are established for indirect or inadvertent residues of the insecticide imidacloprid, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities in the table below. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of imidacloprid (1-[6-chloro-3-pyridinyl) methyl]-N-nitro-2-imidazolidinimine) and its metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinyl moiety, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of imidacloprid, in or on the following commodities, when present therein as a result of the application of the pesticide to growing crops listed in this section and other non-food crops as follows:

Commodity Parts per million
Rice, grain0.05
Vegetable, foliage of legume, group 72.5
Vegetable, legume, group 60.3
[75 FR 22251, Apr. 28, 2010, as amended at 78 FR 33743, June 5, 2013; 80 FR 78145, Dec. 16, 2015]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371
source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 180.472