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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/741
13 June 2003
(03-3112)
Committee on Sanitary and 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 number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Products that use the pesticide Flonicamid in or on the raw agricultural
commodities celery, cotton (gin trash, hulls, meal), pome, fruit (stone group: except plum
and fresh prune plum), lettuce (head, leaf), plum, potato, spinach, tomato (paste, puree),vegetable (cucurbit, fruiting), cattle, eggs, goat (fat, meat), hog, poultry meat and meat
byproducts, sheep and horse.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any
US trading partners
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Flonicamid;  Notice of
Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or
on Food (available in English, 4 pages).
6. Description of content:  EPA has received a pesticide petition proposing, pursuant to
section 408(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. 346a(d),
to amend 40 CFR part 180 by establishing tolerances for the combined residues of the
insecticide Flonicamid, (N-cyanomethyl-4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide) and its
metabolites, TFNA, (4-trifluoromethylnicotinic acid), TFNA-AM, (4-
trifluoromethylnicotinamide) and TFNG, (N-(4-trifluoromethylnicotinoyl)-glycine) in oron the raw agricultural commodities:  Celery, at 1.2 parts per million (ppm);  cotton, at
0.5 ppm;  cotton, gin trash, at 6.0 ppm;  cotton, hulls, at 1.0 ppm; cotton, meal, at 1.0 ppm;
fruit, pome, group 11, at 0.2 ppm;  fruit, stone, group 12, except plum and fresh prune
plum, at 0.7 ppm;  lettuce, head, at 1.0 ppm;  lettuce, leaf, at 4.0 ppm;  plum, at 0.1 ppm;
potato, at 0.2 ppm;  potato, flakes, at 0.4 ppm;  prune, fresh, at 0.1;  spinach, at 9.0 ppm;tomato, paste, at 2.0 ppm;  tomato, puree, at 0.5 ppm;  vegetable, cucurbit, group 9, at
0.4 ppm;  vegetable, fruiting, group 8, at 0.4 ppm;  by establishing tolerances for the
combined residues of the insecticide flonicamid, (N-cyanomethyl-4-
trifluoromethylnicotinamide) and its metabolite TFNA-AM,
(4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide) in animal tissues and poultry meat byproducts:G/SPS/N/USA/741
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Cattle, fat, at 0.01 ppm;  cattle, meat, at 0.04 ppm;  eggs, at 0.02 ppm;  goat, fat, at 0.01
ppm;  goat, meat, at 0.04 ppm;  hog, fat, at 0.01;   hog, meat, at 0.01 ppm;  horse, fat, at 0.01
ppm; horse, meat, at 0.04 ppm;  milk, at 0.02 ppm;  poultry, fat, at 0.01 ppm;  poultry,
meat, at 0.01 ppm;  poultry, meat byproducts, at 0.01 ppm;  sheep, fat, at 0.01 ppm;  sheep,
meat, at 0.04 ppm; b y establishing tolerances for the combined residues of the insecticide
Flonicamid, (N-cyanomethyl-4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide) and its metabolites TFNA, (4-trifluoromethylnicotinic acid) and TFNA-AM, (4-trifluoromethylnicotinamide) in the
animal meat byproducts:  cattle, meat bypr oducts, at 0.06 ppm;  goat, meat byproducts, at
0.06 ppm;  hog, meat byproducts, at 0.01 ppm;  horse, meat byproducts, at 0.06 ppm;  and
sheep, meat byproducts, at 0.06 ppm.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection 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:
fr23my03-79, Federal Register:  23 May 2003 (Volume 68, Number 100)
Pages 28218-28222;
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2003/May/Day-23/p13005.htm; Available in
English
10. Proposed date of adoption: :  not applicable
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  not applicable
12. Final date for comments:  23 June 2003
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Information Resources and
Services Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.  opp-docket@epa.gov
Note:  Identify docket name "OPP-2003-0172" in subject line of your response.
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Mr. Bill Janis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1027, Washington, DC  20250.  Tel
(202) 720-9047, (202) 720-0677, fstsd@usda.gov