G/SPS/N/USA/3043  
 
14 December 2018  
(18-7909) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member: UNITED STATES OF AME RICA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible: Environmental Protection Agency  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable):  
 Beet, sugar, dried pulp  
 Grain, aspirated grain fractions  
 Grain, cereal, forage, fodde r, and straw, group 16, except rice  
 Grain, cereal, group 15, except rice and grain sorghum  
 Peanut  
 Peanut, hay  
 Radish, tops  
 Sorghum, grain, grain  
 Soybean, hulls  
 Soybean, seed  
 Vegetable, root, subgroup 1A  
 Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C  
 Cattle, fat  
 Cattle, meat by -products  
 Cattle, muscle  
 Goat, fat  
 Goat, meat by -products  
 Goat, muscle  
 Horse, fat  
 Horse, meat by -products  
 Horse, muscle  
 Milk 
 Sheep, fat  
 Sheep, meat by -products  
 Sheep, muscle  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document: Bixafen; Pesticide Tolerances. Final Rule . 
Language(s): English.  Number of pages: 7 
6. Description of content: This regulation estab lishes tolerances for residues of bixafen in 
or on multiple commodities.  G/SPS/N/USA/3043  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : Codex Pesticide Number 262  
The Codex has established MRLs for bixafen in or on barley and oats at 0.4 ppm. 
Codex has also established MRLs for rye, wheat, and wheat bran at 0.05 ppm. 
Codex has also established MRLs for barley straw and fodder, dry at 20 ppm; oat 
straw and fodder, dry at 20 ppm; rye straw and fodder, dry at 20 ppm; and wheat 
straw and fodder, dry at 20 ppm. Additionally, the Codex has established MRLs 
for bixafen in or on cattle, fat at 2 ppm; cattle, meat by -products at 4 ppm; cattle, 
muscle at 2 ppm; goat, fat at 2 pp m; goat, meat by -products at 4 ppm; goat, 
muscle at 2 ppm; horse, fat at 2 ppm; horse, meat by -products at 4 ppm; horse, 
muscle at 2 ppm; milk at 0.2 ppm; sheep, fat at 2 ppm; sheep, meat by -products 
at 4 ppm; and sheep, muscle at 2 ppm.  
[ ] World Organiza tion for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [X] No  
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard: The US tolerances are not harmonized with Codex in all 
instances because data provided to EPA support different limits than the Codex MRLs.  
9. Other  relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: 
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2016-11-30/html/2016 -28738.htm  (available in 
English)  
10. Propos ed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 4 December 2018  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 4 December 2018  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 4 December 2018  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [  ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Michael L. Goodis, P.E., Director, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide 
Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 
DC 20460 -0001; Main telephone number: (703) 305 7090; E -mail: 
RDFRNotices@epa.gov  
13. Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2018-12-04/html/2018 -26348.htm