(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, forage | 6.0 |
| Alfalfa, hay | 20.0 |
| Almond | 0.5 |
| Almond, hulls | 10.0 |
| Apple | 0.2 |
| Apple, wet pomace | 0.4 |
| Apricot, dried | 4.0 |
| Asparagus | 7.0 |
| Avocado | 4.0 |
| Beet, garden, roots | 0.1 |
| Beet, garden, tops | 0.1 |
| Beet, sugar | 0.1 |
| Beet, sugar, molasses | 1.0 |
| Beet, sugar, roots | 0.5 |
| Beet, sugar, tops | 10.0 |
| Blueberry | 2.0 |
| Broccoli | 2.0 |
| Brussels sprouts | 2.0 |
| Cabbage | 1.0 |
| Cattle, fat | 0.4 |
| Cattle, kidney | 0.4 |
| Cattle, liver | 0.4 |
| Cattle, meat | 0.05 |
| Cattle, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver | 0.05 |
| Cauliflower | 1.0 |
| Citrus, oil | 7.0 |
| Citrus, dried pulp | 7.0 |
| Clover, forage | 1.0 |
| Clover, hay | 2.5 |
| Cotton, undelinted seed | 0.1 |
| Cranberry | 4.0 |
| Egg | 0.05 |
| Fruit, citrus | 1.0 |
| Fruit, stone, group 12 | 1.0 |
| Ginseng | 3.0 |
| Goat, fat | 0.4 |
| Goat, kidney | 0.4 |
| Goat, liver | 0.4 |
| Goat, meat | 0.05 |
| Goat, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver | 0.05 |
| Grain, cereal, group 15, except barley, oat and wheat | 0.1 |
| Grain, crop | 0.1 |
| Grape | 2.0 |
| Grape, raisin | 6.0 |
| Grass, forage | 10.0 |
| Grass, hay | 25.0 |
| Hog, fat | 0.4 |
| Hog, kidney | 0.4 |
| Hog, liver | 0.4 |
| Hog, meat | 0.05 |
| Hog, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver | 0.05 |
| Hop, dried cones | 20 |
| Hop, vines | 2.0 |
| Horse, fat | 0.4 |
| Horse, kidney | 0.4 |
| Horse, liver | 0.4 |
| Horse, meat | 0.05 |
| Horse, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver | 0.05 |
| Lettuce, head | 5.0 |
| Milk | 0.02 |
| Mustard greens | 5.0 |
| Onion, bulb | 3.0 |
| Onion, green | 10.0 |
| Peanut | 0.2 |
| Peanut, hay | 20.0 |
| Peanut, meal | 1.0 |
| Peanut, hulls | 2.0 |
| Pepper, black1 | 0.3 |
| Pineapple | 0.1 |
| Pineapple, fodder | 0.1 |
| Pineapple, forage | 0.1 |
| Plum, prune, dried | 4.0 |
| Potato, chips | 4.0 |
| Potato, granules, flakes | 4.0 |
| Potato, processed potato waste | 4.0 |
| Potato, wet peel | 4.0 |
| Poultry, fat | 0.4 |
| Poultry, kidney | 0.4 |
| Poultry, liver | 0.4 |
| Poultry, meat | 0.05 |
| Poultry, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver | 0.05 |
| Potato | 0.5 |
| Raspberry | 0.5 |
| Sheep, fat | 0.4 |
| Sheep, kidney | 0.4 |
| Sheep, liver | 0.4 |
| Sheep, meat | 0.05 |
| Sheep, meat byproducts, except kidney and liver | 0.05 |
| Soybean, hulls | 2.0 |
| Soybean, meal | 2.0 |
| Soybean, seed | 1.0 |
| Spinach | 10.0 |
| Strawberry | 10.0 |
| Sunflower, seed | 0.1 |
| Sunflower, forage | 0.1 |
| Tomato, paste | 3.0 |
| Tomato, puree | 3.0 |
| Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5, except broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and mustard greens | 0.1 |
| Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 | 1.0 |
| Vegetable, foilage of legume, group 7 | 8.0 |
| Vegetable, fruiting, group 8 | 1.0 |
| Vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 4, except spinach | 5.0 |
| Vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 2 | 15.0 |
| Vegetable, legume, cannery waste | 5.0 |
| Vegetable, legume, group 6 | 0.2 |
| Vegetable, root and tuber, group 1 | 0.5 |
| Walnut | 0.5 |
(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 |
|---|---|
| Papaya | 0.1 |
(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, bran | 1.0 |
| Barley, flour | 1.0 |
| Barley, grain | 0.2 |
| Barley, pearled barley | 1.0 |
| Barley, straw | 2.0 |
| Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except barley, oat, and wheat; forage | 1.0 |
| Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except barley, oat, and wheat; stover | 1.0 |
| Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except barley, oat, and wheat; straw | 1.0 |
| Oat, flour | 1.0 |
| Oat, forage | 2.0 |
| Oat, grain | 0.2 |
| Oat, groats, rolled oats | 1.0 |
| Oat, straw | 2.0 |
| Wheat, bran | 1.0 |
| Wheat, flour | 1.0 |
| Wheat, forage | 2.0 |
| Wheat, germ | 1.0 |
| Wheat, grain | 0.2 |
| Wheat, middlings | 1.0 |
| Wheat, shorts | 1.0 |
| Wheat, straw | 2.0 |
[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]