(a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of abamectin, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities in the following table. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified in the following table is to be determined by measuring only avermectin B1 a mixture of avermectins containing greater than or equal to 80% avermectin B1 a (5-O-demethyl avermectin A1) and less than or equal to 20% avermectin B1b (5-O-demethyl-25-de(1-methylpropyl)-25-(1-methylethyl) avermectin A1) and its delta-8,9-isomer in or on the following commodities:

Open Table
Commodity Parts per
million
Acerola 0.015
Almond, hulls 0.10
Apple, wet pomace 0.10
Arugula 0.1
Avocado 0.020
Banana1 0.006
Bean 0.015
Berry, low growing, subgroup 13-07G 0.05
Black sapote 0.40
Caneberry subgroup 13-07A 0.20
Canistel 0.40
Carrot, roots 0.03
Cattle, fat 0.05
Cattle, meat 0.02
Cattle, meat byproducts 0.09
Celeriac, roots 0.05
Celeriac, tops 0.05
Celtuce 0.1
Chive, dried leaves 0.02
Chive, fresh leaves 0.01
Citrus, dried pulp 0.10
Citrus, oil 0.10
Corn, sweet, forage 0.20
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husk removed 0.01
Corn, sweet, stover 0.50
Cotton, gin byproducts 1.0
Cotton, undelinted seed 0.02
Feijoa 0.015
Fennel, Florence, fresh leaves and stalk 0.1
Food products in food handling establishments (other than those already covered by higher tolerances as a result of use on growing crops, and other than those already covered by tolerances on milk, meat, and meat byproducts) 0.01
Fruit, citrus, group 10-10 0.02
Fruit, pome, group 11-10 0.02
Fruit, small vine climbing, except fuzzy kiwifruit, subgroup 13-07F 0.02
Fruit, stone, group 12-12 0.09
Garden cress 0.1
Goat, fat 0.03
Goat, meat 0.02
Goat, meat byproducts 0.04
Grain, aspirated grain fractions 0.40
Guava 0.015
Herb subgroup 19A, except chive 0.030
Hog, fat 0.01
Hog, meat 0.02
Hog, meat byproducts 0.02
Hop, dried cones 0.20
Horse, fat 0.03
Horse, meat 0.02
Horse, meat byproducts 0.04
Jaboticaba 0.015
Leaf petiole vegetable subgroup 22B 0.1
Leafy greens subgroup 4-16A 0.1
Longan 0.01
Mamey sapote 0.40
Milk 0.015
Nut, tree, group 14-12 0.01
Onion, bulb, subgroup 3-07A 0.01
Onion, green, subgroup 3-07B 0.08
Papaya 0.40
Passionfruit 0.015
Peppermint, tops 0.010
Pineapple 0.015
Plum, prune, dried 0.025
Poultry, meat 0.02
Poultry, meat byproducts 0.02
Pulasan 0.01
Rambutan 0.01
Sapodilla 0.40
Sheep, fat 0.03
Sheep, meat 0.02
Sheep, meat byproducts 0.04
Soybean, forage 0.30
Soybean, hay 1.0
Soybean, seed 0.01
Spanish lime 0.01
Spearmint, tops 0.010
Star apple 0.40
Starfruit 0.015
Tea, dried1 1.0
Tropical and subtropical, small fruit, inedible peel, subgroup 24A 0.01
Upland cress 0.1
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 0.005
Vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10 0.07
Vegetable, legume, dried shelled, except soybean, subgroup 6C 0.01
Vegetable, legume, edible podded, subgroup 6A 0.08
Vegetable, legume, succulent shelled, subgroup 6B 0.08
Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 01C 0.01
Wax jambu 0.015

1There are no U.S. registrations for use of abamectin on banana or tea.

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]

[62 FR 44095, Aug. 19, 1997]


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