Regulations last checked for updates: Oct 02, 2026

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Sep 29, 2026
§ 180.599 - Acequinocyl; tolerances for residues.

(a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of acequinocyl, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities in the table below. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only the sum of acequinocyl [2-(acetyloxy)-3-dodecyl-1,4-naphthalenedione] and its metabolite, 2-dodecyl-3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of acequinocyl, in or on the commodity.

Table 1 to Paragraph (a)

Commodity Parts per million
Almond, hulls2
Apple, wet pomace1
Avocado0.5
Bean, dry, seed0.15
Bean, edible podded0.25
Bean, succulent shelled0.3
Berry, low growing, subgroup 13-07G0.5
Bushberry subgroup 13-07B3
Caneberry subgroup 13-07A4
Cattle, fat0.02
Cattle, meat byproducts0.02
Cherry, subgroup 12-12A1
Cowpea, forage6
Cowpea, hay18
Fruit, citrus, group 10-100.35
Fruit, citrus, group 10-10, oil30
Fruit, pome, group 11-100.4
Fruit, small vine climbing, except fuzzy kiwifruit, subgroup 13-07F1.6
Goat, fat0.02
Goat, meat byproducts0.02
Guava0.9
Hop, dried cones15
Horse, fat0.02
Horse, meat byproducts0.02
Nut, tree, group 14-120.02
Sheep, fat0.02
Sheep, meat byproducts0.02
Soybean, vegetable, succulent0.25
Tea, plucked leaves 140
Tropical and subtropical, medium to large fruit, smooth, inedible peel subgroup 24B4
Tropical and subtropical, small fruit, inedible peel, subgroup 24A2
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 90.3
Vegetable, fruiting, group 8-100.7

1 There are no U.S. registrations as of January 18, 2017 for use on tea.

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]

[69 FR 43533, July 21, 2004, as amended at 73 FR 17910, Apr. 2, 2008; 75 FR 70148, Nov. 17, 2010; 77 FR 25909, May 2, 2012; 81 FR 21756, Apr. 13, 2016; 82 FR 5414, Jan. 18, 2017; 83 FR 26373, June 7, 2018; 85 FR 29340, May 15, 2020; 86 FR 48510, Aug. 31, 2021; 91 FR 8116, Feb. 20, 2026]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371
source: 36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 180.599