Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency has announced the revocation of the MRLs for ferbam, thiram and ziram on corresponding commodities (see previous post).
 

Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency has proposed maximum residue limits (PMRL) for flutolanil. 

The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency has notified the World Trade Organization of some draft resolutions regarding the active ingredients P54 – Proexadiona Calcica, I10 – Imazetapir, and F46 – Flumioxazina of the Monograph List of Active Ingredients for Pesticides, Household Cleaning Products and Wood Preservers, published by Resolution – RE n° 165 of 29 August 2003, on the Brazilian Official Gazette (DOU – Diário Oficial da União) of 2 September 2003.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) issued the Variations to Schedule 20 of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (August 13, 2019).

On August 25, 2019, the US and Japan announced that both countries reached an agreement in principle.

The European Commission notified the World Trade Organization of the Draft Commission Implementing Regulation establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019.

Health Canada will modify the regulatory List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods, adding a new ML of 20 ppm total extractable cyanide in apricot kernels sold for human consumption, which is also applicable to apricot kernels used as an ingredient in other foods.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has established tolerances for residues of sulfoxaflor in or on multiple commodities.

AENOR, the Spanish standardization body responsible for the publication of the National Standards UNE, has certified an environmental product declaration on Spanish almond kernels, according to the Standard UNE-EN-ISO 14025.

In April 2019, the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, State of Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Yemen notified the Word Trade Organization of the amendments on the Gulf Draft Technical Regulation for "Contaminants and toxins in food and feed".