40 CFR § 180.269 - Aldicarb; tolerances for residues.

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title: "40 CFR § 180.269 - Aldicarb; tolerances for residues."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "180.269"
section_name: "Aldicarb; 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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# 180.269 Aldicarb; tolerances for residues.

(a) *General.* Tolerances are established for combined residues of the insecticide and nematocide aldicarb (2-methyl-2-(methylthio)propionaldehyde *O*-(methylcarbamoyl) oxime and its cholinesterase-inhibiting metabolites 2-methyl 2-(methylsulfinyl) propionaldehyde *O*-(methylcarbamoyl) oxime and 2-methyl-2-(methylsulfonyl) propionaldehyde *O*-(methylcarbamoyl) oxime in or on the following food commodities:

| Commodity | Parts per million |
| --- | --- |
| Bean, dry, seed | 0.1 |
| Beet, sugar, roots | 0.05 |
| Beet, sugar, tops | 1 |
| Citrus, dried pulp | 0.6 |
| Coffee, bean, green | 0.1 |
| Cotton, undelinted seed | 0.1 |
| Cotton, hulls | 0.3 |
| Grapefruit | 0.3 |
| Lemon | 0.3 |
| Lime | 0.3 |
| Orange, sweet | 0.3 |
| Peanut | 0.05 |
| Pecan | 0.5 |
| Potato | 1 |
| Soybean | 0.02 |
| Sugarcane, cane | 0.02 |
| Sweet potato, roots | 0.1 |

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

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

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

[65 FR 33710, May 24, 2000, as amended at 69 FR 6567, Feb. 11, 2004; 73 FR 54961, Sept. 24, 2008; 81 FR 34905, June 1, 2016]