40 CFR 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, 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, black 1 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

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

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