Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

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

(a) General. (1) Tolerances are established for residues of the insecticide/miticide spiromesifen, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of spiromesifen [2-oxo-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3-dimethylbutanoate] and 4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of spiromesifen, in or on the following primary crop commodities:

Table 1 to Paragraph (a)(1)

Commodity Parts per million
Bean, dry0.02
Bean, edible podded0.80
Bean, succulent0.10
Berry and small fruit, low growing berry, subgroup 13-07G2.0
Brassica, head and stem, subgroup 5A2.0
Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 5B12
Coffee, green bean 10.20
Corn, field, forage5.0
Corn, field, grain0.02
Corn, field, stover8.0
Corn, pop, grain0.02
Corn, pop, stover4.0
Corn, sweet, forage17
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed0.02
Corn, sweet, stover12
Cotton, gin byproducts15
Cotton, undelinted seed0.50
Cowpea, forage30
Cowpea, hay86
Leaf petiole subgroup 4B6.0
Leafy greens subgroup 4A12
Orange 20.15
Orange subgroup 10-10A, oil 210
Pea, dry, seed0.20
Peppermint, tops45
Spearmint, tops45
Tea, dry40
Tomato, paste0.80
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 90.10
Vegetable, fruiting, group 80.45
Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C0.02

1 This use has not been registered in the United States as of August 28, 2018.

2 There are no U.S. registrations for these commodities as of June 26, 2024.

(2) Tolerances are established for residues of the insecticide/miticide spiromesifen, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of spiromesifen [2-oxo-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3-dimethylbutanoate] and its metabolites containing the 4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one and 4-hydroxy-3-[4-(hydroxymethyl)-2,6-dimethylphenyl]-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one moieties, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of spiromesifen, in the following livestock commodities:

Commodity Parts per million
Cattle, fat0.10
Cattle, meat0.02
Cattle, meat byproducts0.20
Goat, fat0.10
Goat, meat0.02
Goat, meat byproducts0.20
Horse, fat0.10
Horse, meat0.02
Horse, meat byproducts0.20
Milk0.01
Milk, fat0.25
Sheep, fat0.10
Sheep, meat0.02
Sheep, meat byproducts0.20

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. Time-limited tolerances specified in the following table are established for residues of the insecticide/miticide spiromesifen, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of spiromesifen [2-oxo-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3-dimethylbutanoate] and 4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of spiromesifen, in or on the specified agricultural commodities, resulting from use of the pesticide pursuant to FIFRA section 18 emergency exemptions. The tolerances expire and are revoked on the date specified in the table.

Commodity Parts per million Expiration/revocation date
Soybean, forage3012/31/14
Soybean, hay8612/31/14
Soybean, seed0.0212/31/14

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. Tolerances are established for the inadvertent or indirect residues of the insecticide/miticide spiromesifen, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of spiromesifen [2-oxo-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3-dimethylbutanoate], 4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one, and its metabolites containing the 4-hydroxy-3-[4-(hydroxymethyl)-2,6-dimethylphenyl]-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one moiety, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of spiromesifen, in the following rotational crop commodities:

Commodity Parts per million
Alfalfa, forage1.5
Alfalfa, hay3.0
Barley, grain0.03
Barley, hay0.25
Barley, straw0.15
Beet, sugar, roots0.03
Beet, sugar, tops0.20
Oat, forage0.20
Oat, grain0.03
Oat, hay0.25
Oat, straw0.25
Vegetable, bulb, group 3-070.09
Wheat, forage0.20
Wheat, grain0.03
Wheat, hay0.15
Wheat, straw0.25
[70 FR 43283, July 27, 2005, as amended at 72 FR 3079, Jan. 24, 2007; 73 FR 13140, Mar. 12, 2008; 73 FR 52606, Sept. 10, 2008; 74 FR 8492, Feb. 25, 2009; 74 FR 15886, Apr. 8, 2009; 75 FR 5526, Feb. 3, 2010; 75 FR 53586, Sept. 1, 2010; 76 FR 81396, Dec. 28, 2011; 78 FR 3337, Jan. 16, 2013; 83 FR 45849, Sept. 11, 2018; 89 FR 53359, June 26, 2024]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371
source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 180.607