Setting of an import tolerance for oxathiapiprolin in blueberries

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. 2022 May 27;20(5):e07347. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7347

Code⁽ ^a ⁾	Commodity	Existing EU MRL (mg/kg)	Proposed EU MRL (mg/kg)	Comment/justification
Enforcement residue definition: Oxathiapiprolin
154010	Blueberries⁽ ^b ⁾	0.01^*	0.5 further risk management considerations	The submitted data are sufficient to derive an MRL proposal for the import tolerance on highbush blueberries. Risk for consumers unlikely even considering a worst‐case scenario, without exclusion of lowbush blueberries from the consumption data which cover the group of blueberries. It is to be noted that lowbush blueberries⁽ ^b ⁾ are excluded from the GAP for highbush blueberries authorised in the United States. A distinction between different varieties of a commodity (i.e. highbush and lowbush blueberry) is not possible under the assigned EU commodity code for blueberries (154010) in Part A. Therefore, further risk management considerations are required.

Code⁽ ^a ⁾

Commodity

Existing

EU MRL

(mg/kg)

Proposed

EU MRL

(mg/kg)

Comment/justification

Enforcement residue definition: Oxathiapiprolin

154010

Blueberries⁽ ^b ⁾

0.01^*

0.5

further risk management considerations

The submitted data are sufficient to derive an MRL proposal for the import tolerance on highbush blueberries. Risk for consumers unlikely even considering a worst‐case scenario, without exclusion of lowbush blueberries from the consumption data which cover the group of blueberries.

It is to be noted that lowbush blueberries⁽ ^b ⁾ are excluded from the GAP for highbush blueberries authorised in the United States. A distinction between different varieties of a commodity (i.e. highbush and lowbush blueberry) is not possible under the assigned EU commodity code for blueberries (154010) in Part A.

Therefore, further risk management considerations are required.

Indicates that the MRL is set at the limit of analytical quantification (LOQ).

^(a)

Commodity code number according to Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

^(b)

It is noted that lowbush blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium) are specifically excluded from the GAP authorised in the United States. However, in Part A of the Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, no distinction is made between highbush and lowbush blueberries. In Part B, specific EU commodity codes for highbush and lowbush blueberries are also not assigned.