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New ZealandProposed measure, not in force yet

Animal products, fruit, vegetables – New Zealand

Official title

Proposals to Amend the New Zealand (Maximum Residue Levels for Agricultural Compounds) Food Notice

New Zealand notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 26 June 2026. The comment period closed on 10 July 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Vegetables, fruit, animal products, and other food products

Notifying member
New Zealand
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/NZL/792
Keywords
Food safety, Human health, Maximum residue limits (MRLs)

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 10 July 2026
Proposed adoption
To be determined.
Proposed entry into force
To be determined.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 10 July 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/NZL/792; it can take them up with New Zealand.

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What the notification says

The document contains technical details on proposals to amend the current Notice issued under the Food Act 2014 that lists the maximum residue levels (MRLs) for agricultural compounds in New Zealand. MPI proposes the following amendments to the Notice: a) The amendment of existing MRL entries for the following compounds and commodities: A new entry for cefuroxime, to set MRLs at 0.01(*) mg/kg in cattle milk, 0.02 mg/kg in cattle fat, cattle kidney, cattle liver, and cattle meat; A new entry for chlorotoluron, to set MRLs at 0.01(*) mg/kg in barley grain, wheat grain, mammalian fat, mammalian meat, mammalian offal, milk, poultry fat, poultry meat, poultry offal of 0.01 mg/kg(*), and at 0.02(*) mg/kg in eggs; A new entry for enrofloxacin, to set MRLs at 0.02 mg/kg for cattle fat, cattle kidney, cattle meat, pig fat, pig kidney, and pig meat, at 0.05 mg/kg for cattle milk, and at 0.07 mg/kg for cattle liver and pig liver; An amendment to the entry for marbofloxacin, to reset the MRLs from 0.015 mg/kg to 0.1 mg/kg for cattle liver, cattle kidney, pig liver, and pig kidney, and to 0.05 mg/kg for cattle meat and pig meat; An amendment to the entry for nicarbazin, to reset MRLs from 15 mg/kg for poultry edible offal to 8 mg/kg for chicken kidney and 15 mg/kg for chicken liver, to set MRLs of 4 mg/kg for chicken skin/fat and chicken meat, and withdraw the corresponding MRLs of 4 mg/kg for poultry chicken skin/fat and poultry meat; An amendment to the entry for pendimethalin, to set…

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