. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1041 
18 March 2005 
 (05-1125) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
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):  Animal feed;  beef, meat;  cheese;  co coa bean;  coconut;  coffee;  cottonseed; 
egg;  ginger;  grain, cereal, forage, fodder  and straw group 16;  grass, forage, fodder and 
hay group 17;  ham; herbs and spices group 19;  milk; nut, pine;  processed food;  peanut; 
rice flour;  and vegetable, legume, group 06. 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
US trade partners. 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Notice:  Sulfuryl 
Fluoride;  Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish Tolerances for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food (available in English, 5 pages). 
6. Description of content:  EPA has received a pesticide pe tition to establish tolerances for 
residues of: 
 1.  Fluoride in or on the following raw ag ricultural commodities:  Animal feed at 
130 parts per million (ppm), beef, meat at 40 ppm; cheese, post harvest at 5 ppm;  cocoa 
bean, post harvest at 12 ppm;  coconut, post harvest at 40 ppm;  coffee, post harvest at 
12 ppm;  cottonseed, post harvest at 13 ppm;  egg at 850 ppm;  ginger, post harvest at 13 ppm;  grain, cereal, forage, fodder and st raw group 16, post harvest at 130 ppm;  grass, 
forage, fodder and hay group 17, post harvest  at 130 ppm;  ham at 20 ppm; herbs and 
spices group 19, post harvest at 50 ppm;  milk at 3 ppm;  nut, pine, post harvest at 10 ppm; other processed food at 70 ppm;  peanut, post-ha rvest at 13 ppm;  rice flour, post harvest at 
98 ppm;  and vegetable, legume,  group 06, post harvest at 6 ppm. 
 2.  Sulfuryl fluoride in or on the foll owing raw agricultural commodities:  Animal 
feed at 2.0 ppm;  beef, meat at 0.01 ppm;  cheese, post harvest at 0.5 ppm;  cocoa bean, 
post harvest at 0.8 ppm;  coconut, post harvest at 1.0 ppm;  coffee, post harvest at 0.8 ppm; 
cottonseed, post harvest at 0.2 ppm;  egg at 0.7 ppm;  ginger, post harvest at 0.2 ppm; grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw group 16,  post harvest at 2.0 ppm;  grass, forage, 
fodder and hay group 17, post harvest at 2.0 ppm;  ham at 0.01 ppm;  herbs and spices 
group 19, post harvest at 0.3 ppm;  milk at 1.5 ppm;  nut, pine, post harvest at 3.0 ppm; 
other processed food at 1.2 ppm;  peanut, post-harvest at 0.2 ppm;  rice flour, post harvest 
at 0.08 ppm;  and vegetable, legume, group 06, post harvest at 0.02 ppm. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from anima l/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from 
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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:   NA 
9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:  DOCID:  fr, Federal 
Register: [Federal Register:  4 March 2005 (Volume 70, Number 42)] [10621-10625] 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/March/Day-04/p4281.htm  
10. Proposed date of adoption:   Not available 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   Not available 
12. Final date for comments:  4 April 2005 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [  X] National notification 
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   Suku Oonnithan, Registration Division (7505C), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protec tion Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001.  Note:  Identify docket name "OPP-2005-0067" in subject 
line of your response. 
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notificati on authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: 
Ms. Julie Morin, United States SPS Enquiry Point Officer, USDA Foreign Agricultural 
Service, Food Safety & Technical Services Division, Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250. Tel:  202-720-4051;  Fax:  202-690-0677;  E-mail:  fstsd@usda.gov