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WTO notification · SPS

New ZealandProposed measure, open for comments

Animal products, fruit, vegetables – New Zealand

Official title

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

New Zealand notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 20 October 2026. Comments are open until 19 December 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Vegetables, fruit, animal products, and other food products

Notifying member
New Zealand
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Food safety
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/NZL/796
Keywords
Food safety, Human health, Maximum residue limits (MRLs)

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 19 December 2026
Proposed adoption
To be confirmed.
Proposed entry into force
To be confirmed – promulgation will occur once the document is finalized post-consultation.

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO SPS enquiry point before 19 December 2026, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/NZL/796 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to 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: The amendment of existing entries in Schedule 1, for the following compounds and commodities: Acetochlor, to set a MRL at 0.04 mg/kg in green peas (without pods); Clomazone, to set MRLs at 0.01(*) mg/kg in green peas (without pods), mammalian fat, mammalian meat, mammalian offal, milk, poultry fat, poultry meat, poultry offal, and eggs; Cyantraniliprole, to set a MRL at 0.01(*) mg/kg in maize; Flufenacet, to set MRLs at 0.05(*) mg/kg in maize, mammalian fat, mammalian meat, mammalian offal, poultry fat, poultry meat, poultry offal, and eggs, and 0.01(*) mg/kg in milk; Fluxapyroxad, to set an MRL at 0.03 mg/kg in kiwifruit; Isofetamid, to reduce the MRL for grapes from 0.08 mg/kg to 0.04 mg/kg; and; Mesotrione, to set MRLs at 0.01(*) mg/kg in mammalian fat, mammalian meat, mammalian offal, poultry fat, poultry meat, poultry offal, eggs, and milk. 2. The addition of three new entries in Schedule 1, for the following compounds and commodities: Chlorine dioxide, to set MRLs at 0.1 mg/kg in cattle fat, 0.05 mg/kg for cattle meat, cattle liver, and cattle kidney, and 0.01(*) mg/kg in milk; Sedaxane, to set a MRL at 0.1 mg/kg in potatoes; and; Spidoxamat, to set a MRL at 0.15 mg/kg in apples and kiwifruit, and 0.2 mg/kg in grapes…

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