proposals to amend the maximum residue levels for agricultural compounds food notice 2016 the document contains technical details on proposals to amend the 2016 notice under the food act 2014 that lists the maximum residue levels mrls for agricultural compounds in new zealand. mpi proposes to add the following new mrls to the mrl notice abamectin 0.01 mg kg when used on bulb onions and 0.02 mg kg when used on green onions aviglycine 0.02 mg kg when used on cherries bixafen 0.05 mg kg when used on barley cephapirin 0.06 mg kg in cattle milk cyproconazole 0.05 mg kg when used on grapes and 0.5 mg kg in edible offal mammals 0.02 mg kg in fat mammalian and 0.01 mg kg in milk as a result of use in beets diclazuril 1.0 mg kg in cattle and shee fat 2.0 mg kg in cattle and shee kidney 0.5 mg kg in cattle and shee muscle and 3.0 mg kg in cattle and shee liver fenpyrazamine 0.05 mg kg when used on grapes fluopyram 1.0 mg kg when used on fruiting vegetables except cucurbits fluxapyroxad 0.02 mg kg when used on pome fruits apples and pears indoxacarb 0.5 mg kg when used on brassica vegetables except cabbage 3 mg kg when used on cabbage and 3 mg kg when used on head lettuce meloxicam 0.01 mg kg in shee fat and muscle and 0.065 mg kg in shee liver and kidney metamitron 0.01 mg kg when used on apples methoxyfenozide 0.4 mg kg when used on stone fruit prothioconazole 0.1 mg kg when used on barley spirotetramat 0.2 mg kg in apples thiamethoxam 0.01 mg kg in bulb onions and 0.2 mg kg in green onions trifloxystrobin 0.05 mg kg in fat mammalian 0.04 mg kg in kidney mammalian and 0.05 mg kg in liver mammalian when used on sugar beets and fodder grown for animal feed trinexapac-ethyl 0.05 mg kg of 4- cyclopropyl-a-hydroxy-methylene -3 5-dioxo-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid when used on cereal crops and 0.2 mg kg of trinexapac acid when used on cereal crops except maize and sweet corns and tulathromycin 0.45 mg kg in shee muscle 0.25 mg kg in shee fat 5.4 mg kg in shee liver and 1.8 mg kg in shee kidney. note indicates that the maximum residue level has been set at or about the limit of analytical quantification. mpi also proposes to add the following exceptions from mrls to the mrl notice mixtures of chito-oligosaccharides and oligogalacturonans for use on fruits and vegetables ozone for use as an agricultural chemical polyoxin d zinc salt for use as an agricultural chemical prohydrojasmon when used as a colour enhancer on apples. and to amend existing exceptions as follows amend the entry for microbial pesticide organisms to change the classification of these substances to microbial active ingredients amend the entry for bismuth and its salts to include the use of intramammary teat sealants in cattle. finally mpi have proposed to amend the residue definitions for the following compounds emamectin to harmonise with overseas trading partners and codex indoxacarb to harmonise with the current definition set by codex prothioconazole to harmonise it with the current definition set by codex in 2008 trinexapac-ethyl to correct errors in the current notice entry