Regulations last checked for updates: May 18, 2024

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

(a) General. (1) Tolerances are established for the combined residues of the herbicide fluometuron, N, N-dimethyl-N'-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]urea, and its metabolite, trifluoromethylaniline (TFMA) determined as TFMA, in or on the following food commodities:

Commodity Parts per million
Cotton, gin byproducts3.5
Cotton, undelinted seed1.0

(2) Tolerances are established for the combined residues of the herbicide fluometuron, N,N-dimethyl-N'-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]urea, and its metabolites determined as TFMA and the hydroxylated metabolites: CGA-236431, 1-(4-hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylphenyl)urea; CGA-236432, 1-methyl-3-(4-hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylphenyl)urea; and CGA-13211, 1,1-dimethyl-3-(4-hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylphenyl)urea, in or on the following food commodities:

Commodity Parts per million
Cattle, meat byproducts0.1
Egg0.1
Goat, meat byproducts0.1
Hog, meat byproducts0.1
Horse, meat byproducts0.1
Milk0.02
Poultry, fat0.1
Poultry, meat0.1
Poultry, meat byproducts0.1
Sheep, meat byproducts0.1

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. Tolerances are established for the combined residues of the herbicide fluometuron, N, N-dimethyl-N'-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]urea, and its metabolite, trifluoromethylaniline (TFMA) determined as TFMA, in or on the following food commodities.

Commodity Parts per million
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder, and straw group 16, forage3.0
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder, and straw, group 16, stover6.0
Grain, cereal, group 150.5
Peanut0.1
Peanut, hay4.0
Peanut, meal0.2
Soybean, forage3.0
Soybean, hay3.0
Soybean, seed2.0
Rice, hulls1.0
Wheat, milled byproducts1.0
[73 FR 52613, Sept. 10, 2008]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371
source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 180.229