Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Nov 20, 2024
§ 180.561 - Acibenzolar-S-methyl; tolerances for residues.

(a) General. (1) Tolerances are established for residues of acibenzolar-S-methyl, benzo(1,2,3)thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid-S-methyl ester, 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 those acibenzolar-S-methyl residues convertible to benzo(1,2,3)thiadiazole-7-carboxylic acid (CGA-210007), expressed as the stoichiometric equivalent of acibenzolar-S-methyl, in or on the following raw agricultural commodities.

Commodity Parts per million
Banana 10.1
Berry, low growing, subgroup 13-07G0.15
Fruit, citrus, group 10-100.02
Fruit, pome, group 11-100.03
Onion, bulb, subgroup 3-07A0.1
Spinach1.0
Tomato, paste3.0
Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 51.0
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 92.0
Vegetable, fruiting, group 81.0
Vegetable, leafy, group 40.25

1 There are no United States registrations for banana.

(2) Tolerances are established for residues of acibenzolar- S -methyl, benzo(1,2,3)thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid- S -methyl ester, 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 those acibenzolar- S -methyl residues convertible to benzo(1,2,3)thiadiazole-7-carboxylic acid (CGA-210007), expressed as the Stoichiometric equivalent of acibenzolar- S -methyl, in or on the following raw agricultural commodities.

Commodity Parts per million Expiration/revocation date
Apple0.0512/31/15
Grapefruit0.0512/31/15
Pear0.0512/31/15

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]

[65 FR 50446, Aug. 18, 2000, as amended at 70 FR 7861, Feb. 16, 2005; 71 FR 76200, Dec. 20, 2006; 74 FR 24710, May 26, 2009; 76 FR 34886, June 15, 2011; 77 FR 21676, Apr. 11, 2012; 77 FR 30406, May 23, 2012; 80 FR 58620, Sept. 30, 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 180.561