40 CFR § 180.206 - Phorate; tolerances for residues.

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title: "40 CFR § 180.206 - Phorate; tolerances for residues."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "180.206"
section_name: "Phorate; tolerances for residues."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "E"
subchapter_name: "PESTICIDE PROGRAMS"
part_number: "180"
part_name: "TOLERANCES AND EXEMPTIONS FOR PESTICIDE CHEMICAL RESIDUES IN FOOD"
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authority: "21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346a and 371."
regulatory_source: "36 FR 22540, Nov. 25, 1971, unless otherwise noted."
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# 180.206 Phorate; tolerances for residues.

(a) *General.* Tolerances are established for the combined residues of the insecticide phorate (*O,O*-diethyl *S* (ethylthio) methyl]phosphorodithioate), phorate sulfoxide, phorate sulfone, phorate oxygen analog, phorate oxygen analog sulfoxide, and phorate oxygen analog sulfone in or on the following food commodities:

| Commodity | Parts per million |
| --- | --- |
| Bean, dry, seed | 0.05 |
| Bean, succulent | 0.05 |
| Beet, sugar, roots | 0.3 |
| Beet, sugar, tops | 3.0 |
| Coffee, green bean | 0.02 |
| Corn, field, forage | 0.5 |
| Corn, field, grain | 0.05 |
| Corn, sweet, forage | 0.5 |
| Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed | 0.05 |
| Cotton, undelinted seed | 0.05 |
| Hop, dried cones | 2.0 |
| Peanut | 0.1 |
| Potato | 0.2 |
| Sorghum, grain, grain | 0.05 |
| Sorghum, grain, stover | 0.1 |
| Soybean, seed | 0.05 |
| Sugarcane, cane | 0.05 |
| Wheat, forage | 1.5 |
| Wheat, grain | 0.05 |
| Wheat, hay | 1.5 |
| Wheat, straw | 0.05 |
| There are no U.S. registrations as of September 1, 1993 for the use of phorate on the growing crop, coffee. |  |

(b) *Section 18 emergency exemptions.* [Reserved]

(c) *Tolerances with regional registrations.* [Reserved]

(d) *Indirect or inadvertent residues.* [Reserved]

[58 FR 62038, Nov. 24, 1993, as amended at 63 FR 2165, Jan. 14, 1998; 63 FR 57074, Oct. 26, 1998; 66 FR 50833, Oct. 5, 2001; 67 FR 49616, July 31, 2002; 71 FR 74816, Dec. 13, 2006; 73 FR 53738, Sept. 17, 2008]