Title 40

SECTION 180.284

180.284 Zinc phosphide; tolerances for residues.

§ 180.284 Zinc phosphide; tolerances for residues.

(a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of the phosphine resulting from the use of the rodenticide zinc phosphide in or on the raw agricultural commodities as follows:

Commodity Parts per million
Alfalfa, forage 0.2
Alfalfa, hay 0.2
Barley, grain 0.05
Barley, hay 0.2
Barley, straw 0.2
Bean, dry, seed 0.05
Beet, sugar, roots 0.05
Beet, sugar, tops 0.2
Grape 0.01
Grass, rangeland, forage 0.1
Grass, rangeland, hay 0.1
Potato 0.05
Sugarcane, cane 0.01
Timothy, hay 0.5
Timothy, forage 0.5
Wheat, forage 0.05
Wheat, grain 0.05
Wheat, hay 0.05
Wheat, straw 0.05

(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]

(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. Tolerances with regional registration, as defined in § 180.1(l), are established for residues of phosphine resulting from the use of the rodenticide zinc phosphide in or on the following raw agricultural commodities as follows:

Commodity Parts per million
Artichoke, globe 0.01
Beet, sugar, roots 0.04
Beet, sugar, tops 0.02

(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]

[63 FR 45182, Aug. 25, 1998, as amended at 63 FR 67799, Dec. 9, 1998; 64 FR 40772, July 28, 1999; 64 FR 61791, Nov. 15, 1999; 65 FR 8874, Feb. 23, 2000; 65 FR 49941, Aug. 16, 2000; 65 FR 62634, Oct. 19, 2000; 66 FR 64773, Dec. 14, 2001; 68 FR 2247, Jan. 16, 2003; 68 FR 56195, Sept. 30, 2003; 70 FR 7046, Feb. 10, 2005; 74 FR 46373, Sept. 9, 2009; 76 FR 34885, June 15, 2011]