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G/SPS/N/USA/2347 
18 April 2012  
 (12-2067) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  US Environmental Protection Agency 
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):  Multiple 
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:  Penthiopyrad;  Pesticide Tolerances 
Language(s):  English  Number of pages:  7 
 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-03-09/html/2012-5650.htm  
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes toleran ces for residues of penthiopyrad 
in or on multiple commodities.  (a) General. (1) Tolerances are esta blished for residues of 
penthiopyrad, including its etabolites and degrad ates, in or on the commodities in the table 
below. Compliance with the tolerance levels  specified below is to be determined by 
measuring only penthiopyrad (N-[2-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-3-thienyl]-1-methyl-3-
(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide). 
Commodity Parts per million 
Alfalfa, forage 7.0 
Alfalfa, hay 20 
Almond, hulls 6.0 
Apple, wet pomace 1.5 Barley, grain 0.15 Barley, hay 80 Barley, milled by-products 0.90 
Barley, straw 1.0 
Beet, sugar, dried pulp 1.5 Beet, sugar, roots 0.5 Berry, low growing, subgroup 13-07G 3.0 Brassica, head and stem, subgroup 5A 5.0 Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 5B 50 
Buckwheat, grain 0.15 
Canola  1.5 Corn, field, forage 40 G/SPS/N/USA/2347 
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  Corn, field, grain 0.01 
Corn, field, refined oil 0.05 
Corn, field, stover 15 Corn, pop, grain 0.01 Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed 0.01 Cotton, seed 1.5 
Cotton, gin by-products 15 
Fruit, pome, group 11-10 0.50 Fruit, stone, group 12 4.0 Grain, aspirated fractions 30 Millet, spp 0.80 Nut, tree, group 14 0.06 
Oat, forage 40 
Oat, grain 0.15 Oat, hay 80 Oat, straw 1.0 Pea and bean, dried shelled, except soybean, subgroup 6C 0.40 
Peanut  0.04 
Peanut, hay 30 Peanut, refined oil 0.06 Pistachio 0.06 Potato, processed potato waste 0.20 Rye, forage 40 
Rye, grain 0.15 
Rye, straw 1.0 Sorghum, forage 40 Sorghum, grain, grain 0.80 Sorghum, stover 15 
Soybean, seed 0.40 
Sunflower, seed 1.5 Teosinte, grain 0.15 Tomato, paste 3.5 Triticale, forage 40 Triticale, grain 0.15 
Triticale, hay 80 
Triticale, straw 1.0 Vegetable, bulb, group 3-07 3.0 Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 0.60 Vegetable, foliage of legume, group 7, hay 200 
Vegetable, foliage of legume , group 7, vines/forage 50 
Vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10 3.0 Vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 4 30 Vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 2 50 Vegetable, legume, edible podded, subgroup 6A 4.0 
Vegetable, legume, succulent shelled, subgroup 6B 0.40 
Vegetable, root, subgroup 1B, except sugar beet 3.0 Vegetable, tuber and corm, subgroup 1C 0.06 Wheat, forage 40 Wheat, grain 0.15 Wheat, hay 80 
Wheat, milled by-products 0.30 
Wheat, straw 1.0  G/SPS/N/USA/2347 
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  (2) Tolerances are established for residues of  penthiopyrad, including its metabolites and 
degradates, in or on the commodities in the table below. Compliance with the tolerance 
levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of penthiopyrad (N-
[2-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-3-thienyl]-1-meth yl-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-
carboxamide) and its metabolite (1-methyl-3-tr ifluoromethyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide), 
calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of penthiopyrad, in or on the commodity. 
Commodity Parts per million 
Cattle, fat 0.03 
Cattle, meat 0.03 Cattle, meat by-products 0.09 Goat, fat 0.03 Goat, meat 0.03 
Goat, meat by-products 0.09 
Horse, fat 0.03 Horse, meat 0.03 Horse, meat by-products 0.09 Milk  0.02 
Sheep, fat 0.03 
Sheep, meat 0.03 Sheep, meat by-products 0.09 
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 stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[X] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:      
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  9 March 2012 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  9 March 2012 G/SPS/N/USA/2347 
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  11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  9 March 2012 
[X] 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 handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  Tawanda Maignan, Registration Division (7505P), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001;  Tel:  (703) 308- 8050;  Email:  maig nan.tawanda@epa.gov 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, 
International Regulations and Standards Di vision (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 
20250;  Tel:  +(1 202) 720 1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 720 0433;  E-mail:  
us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov