Regulations last checked for updates: May 18, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: May 16, 2024
§ 180.213 - Simazine; tolerances for residues.

(a) General. Tolerances are established residues of the herbicide simazine, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities in table 1 to this paragraph (a). Compliance with the tolerance levels specified in table 1 to this paragraph (a) is to be determined by measuring only the sum of simazine, 6-chloro-N,N′-diethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine, and its metabolites 6-chloro-N-ethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine, and 6-chloro-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of simazine, in or on the commodity.

Table 1 to Paragraph (a)

Commodity Parts per
million
Almond 10.25
Almond, hulls3
Apple 10.20
Avocado0.20
Blackberry0.20
Blueberry0.20
Cattle, meat0.03
Cattle, meat byproducts0.03
Cherry 10.25
Corn, field, forage0.20
Corn, field, grain0.20
Corn, field, stover0.25
Corn, pop, grain0.20
Corn, pop, stover0.25
Corn, sweet, forage0.20
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed0.25
Corn, sweet, stover0.25
Cranberry0.25
Currant0.25
Egg0.03
Fruit, citrus, group 10-100.04
Fruit, pome, group 11-100.03
Fruit, stone, group 12-120.1
Goat, meat0.03
Goat, meat byproducts0.03
Grape0.20
Grapefruit 10.25
Hazelnut 10.20
Horse, meat0.03
Horse, meat byproducts0.03
Lemon 10.25
Loganberry0.20
Milk0.03
Nut, macademia 10.25
Nut, tree, group 14-120.05
Olive0.20
Orange 10.25
Peach 10.20
Pear 10.25
Pecan 10.20
Plum 10.20
Raspberry0.20
Sheep, meat0.03
Sheep, meat byproducts0.03
Strawberry0.25
Walnut 10.2

1 This tolerance expires on June 22, 2023.

(b)-(d) [Reserved]

[87 FR 78567, Dec. 22, 2022]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371
source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 180.213