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Cereals; Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits – Japan

Official title

Amendments to the Enforcement Ordinance of the Standards of Feed and Feed Additives (Amendment of an agricultural chemical residue standard: Acephate)

Japan notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 28 July 2026. The comment period closed on 26 September 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Maize and hay for feed

HS codes
  • 10 · Cereals
    • 1005 Maize or corn
  • 12 · Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
    • 1213 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets.
    • 1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets
Notifying member
Japan
Status
Proposed measure, not in force yet
Objectives
  • Food safety
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/JPN/1424
Keywords
Food safety, Human health, Maximum residue limits (MRLs)

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 26 September 2026
Proposed adoption
December 2026
Proposed entry into force
6 months from adoption

How to comment

The comment period closed on 26 September 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/JPN/1424; it can take them up with Japan.

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What the notification says

Proposal for the amendments of the maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the agricultural chemical: Acephate. Commodity (for feed) Proposed MRL(mg/kg) Current MRL(mg/kg) Maize 0.3 0.5 Hay 0.4 3 Note: - Residue definition for enforcement: Sum of acephate and its metabolite methamidophos converted to acephate. - Hay includes hay and fodder (dry), straw, forage (green) and silage. The MRL is set as 90% dry matter base.

Sources

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