(a) General. Tolerances are established for the combined residues of the insecticide phorate (O,O-diethyl S (ethylthio) methyl]phosphorodithioate), phorate sulfoxide, phorate sulfone, phorate oxygen analog, phorate oxygen analog sulfoxide, and phorate oxygen analog sulfone in or on the following food commodities:

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Commodity Parts per million
Bean, dry, seed 0.05
Bean, succulent 0.05
Beet, sugar, roots 0.3
Beet, sugar, tops 3.0
Coffee, green bean1 0.02
Corn, field, forage 0.5
Corn, field, grain 0.05
Corn, sweet, forage 0.5
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed 0.05
Cotton, undelinted seed 0.05
Hop, dried cones 2.0
Peanut 0.1
Potato 0.2
Sorghum, grain, grain 0.05
Sorghum, grain, stover 0.1
Soybean, seed 0.05
Sugarcane, cane 0.05
Wheat, forage 1.5
Wheat, grain 0.05
Wheat, hay 1.5
Wheat, straw 0.05

1 There are no U.S. registrations as of September 1, 1993 for the use of phorate on the growing crop, coffee.

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]

[58 FR 62038, Nov. 24, 1993, as amended at 63 FR 2165, Jan. 14, 1998; 63 FR 57074, Oct. 26, 1998; 66 FR 50833, Oct. 5, 2001; 67 FR 49616, July 31, 2002; 71 FR 74816, Dec. 13, 2006; 73 FR 53738, Sept. 17, 2008]


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