40 CFR 180.491: Propylene oxide; tolerances for residues.

(a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of the fumigant propylene oxide, including its metabolites and its degradates, including the reaction products propylene chlorohydrin and propylene bromohydrin, in or on the commodities in table 1 to this paragraph (a). Compliance with the tolerance levels specified in table 1 to this paragraph (a) is to be determined by measuring only propylene oxide in or on the commodity.

Table 1 to Paragraph (a)

Commodity Parts per million

Cacao bean, cocoa powder 200

Cacao bean, dried bean 200

Fig, dried 3

Garlic, dried 300

Ginger, dried 300

Grape, raisin 1

Herbs and spices, group 19, dried 300

Nut, tree, group 14-12 300

Onion, dried 300

Pepper, bell, dried 300

Pepper, nonbell, dried 300

Plum, prune, dried 2

Sesame, seed 300

Turmeric, roots, dried 300

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]