. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/TPKM/48 
2 February 2005 
 (05-0433) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF 
TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU  
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Health 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Fruits, vegetables, tea and cereals 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable:  
Countries exporting the products concerned to  the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, 
Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Draft of Pesticide 
Residue Limits in Foods and Proposed Revocation of Pesticide Residue Li mits (Available in 
English, 4 pages) 
6. Description of content:   
1. The draft establishes the pesticide MRLs for Beta-cyfluthrin on mangos and 
watermelons; Boscalid on baby cucumbers and cucumbers; Chlorpyrifos on small red 
beans; Clothianidin on wax apples; Cyazo famid on baby cucumbers, cucumbers and 
grapes; Cyclosulfamuron on rice; Cymoxanil on kales and potatoes; Cypermethrin on small red beans; Dinotefuran on cauta loups; Famoxadone on grapes, potatoes, 
tomatoes and wax apples; Fenitrothion on dry beans, leaf vegetables with small leaves, 
leaf vegetables with wrapped leaves, p eas and beans and root, bulb and tuber 
vegetables; Flufenoxuron on gingers; Gl ufosinate-ammonium on baby cucumbers, 
cautaloups, cucumbers, pears and peppe rs; Guazatine on cautaloups and rice; 
Halfenprox on papayas; Imidacloprid on wax gourds; Indoxacarb on peanuts, spring 
onions, tomatoes and vegetable soybeans ; Metconazole on mangos; Methomyl on 
citrus, leaf vegetables with small leaves, leaf vegetables with wrapped leaves, pome 
and tea; Oxine copper on Chinese cabbages, kales and water caltrop; Profenophos on 
root, bulb and tuber vegetables; Spino sad on tea; Thiamethoxam on wax apples; 
Trifloxystrobin on wax apples. 
2. MRLs for the pesticide Guazatine on citrus ar e proposed to be revoked since the use of 
this pesticide for the control of storag e disease in citrus has been eliminated. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection, 
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from other 
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 8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Draft of Pesticide 
Residue Limits in Foods and Proposed Re vocation of Pesticide Residue Limits 
(27 January 2005, Food No. 0940400774) available in  English from the National Notification 
Authority, National Enquiry Point, and Depart ment of Health.  The amendment will be 
published in the Offici al Government Gazett e when adopted.  The full texts may be 
downloaded from the following website:  http://food.doh.gov.tw/frontpage.asp. 
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined. 
12. Final date for comments:  30 March 2005 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
Bureau of Food Safety 
Department of Health 12F, 100 Ai-Kuo E. Rd., Taipei , Taiwan, Postal Code 100 
Tel:  886-2-23210151 ext 349 
Fax:  886-2-23929723 
E-mail:  fskaoit@doh.gov.tw
 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: 
Bureau of Food Safety 
Department of Health 
12F, 100 Ai-Kuo E. Rd., Taipei , Taiwan, Postal Code 100 
Tel:  (+886) 2 23210151 ext 349 Fax:  (+886) 2 23929723 E-mail:  fskaoit@doh.gov.tw