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['Pesticides']
['Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act', 'Pesticide Registration and Labeling', 'Pesticides']
09/20/2024
(a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of the plant regulator ethephon [(2-chloroethyl) phosphonic acid] in or on food commodities as follows:
| Commodity | Parts per million |
|---|---|
| Apple | 5.0 |
| Apple, juice | 10.0 |
| Barley, bran | 5.0 |
| Barley, grain | 2.0 |
| Barley, straw | 10.0 |
| Blackberry | 30.0 |
| Blueberry | 20.0 |
| Cantaloupe | 2.0 |
| Cattle, fat | 0.02 |
| Cattle, kidney | 1.0 |
| Cattle, meat | 0.02 |
| Cattle, meat byproducts, except kidney | 0.2 |
| Cherry | 10.0 |
| Coffee, bean, green | 0.5 |
| Cotton, gin byproducts | 180.0 |
| Cotton, undelinted seed | 6.0 |
| Egg | 0.002 |
| Goat, fat | 0.02 |
| Goat, kidney | 1.0 |
| Goat, meat | 0.02 |
| Goat, meat byproducts, except kidney | 0.2 |
| Grape | 2.0 |
| Grape, raisin | 12.0 |
| Hazelnut | 0.80 |
| Hog, fat | 0.02 |
| Hog, kidney | 1.0 |
| Hog, meat | 0.02 |
| Hog, meat byproducts, except kidney | 0.2 |
| Horse, fat | 0.02 |
| Horse, kidney | 1.0 |
| Horse, meat | 0.02 |
| Horse, meat byproducts, except kidney | 0.2 |
| Milk | 0.01 |
| Nut, macadamia | 0.5 |
| Pepper | 30.0 |
| Pineapple | 2.0 |
| Poultry, fat | 0.02 |
| Poultry, liver | 0.05 |
| Poultry, meat | 0.01 |
| Poultry, meat byproducts, except liver | 0.01 |
| Sheep, fat | 0.02 |
| Sheep, kidney | 1.0 |
| Sheep, meat | 0.02 |
| Sheep, meat byproducts, except kidney | 0.2 |
| Sugarcane, molasses | 1.5 |
| Tomato | 2.0 |
| Walnut | 0.5 |
| Wheat, bran | 5.0 |
| Wheat, germ | 5.0 |
| Wheat, grain | 2.0 |
| Wheat, middlings | 5.0 |
| Wheat, shorts | 5.0 |
| Wheat, straw | 10.0 |
(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]
(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. A tolerance with regional registration, as defined in §180.1(m), of 0.1 part per million is established for residues of the plant regulator ethephon [(2-chloroethyl)phosphonic acid] in or on the food commodity sugarcane.
(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]
[65 FR 33710, May 24, 2000, as amended at 72 FR 53455, Sept. 19, 2007; 75 FR 56015, Sept. 15, 2010; 80 FR 72598, Nov. 20, 2015]
['Pesticides']
['Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act', 'Pesticide Registration and Labeling', 'Pesticides']
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