• Chemistry and manufacture (Part 2)

    Chemistry and manufacture of agricultural chemicals

    This page provides links to guidance documents about the sorts of information an applicant may submit to address the safety criteria as they relate to chemistry and manufacture as part of…

  • Failed crops (residues)

    For the purpose of this guideline, a failed crop is considered to be any crop that, because of adverse conditions, could be grazed by livestock during its vegetative growth stage rather than grown to maturity. These are crops that…

  • Antibiotic resistance risk assessments

    Risk assessment for food-producing animals

    If your application relates to the use of an antibiotic in food-producing animals, you should prepare a qualitative risk assessment addressing the possible contribution of the proposed use…

  • Definition of residues for the purpose of setting a maximum residue limit (residues)

    Crop protection chemicals undergo change after application. The nature and extent of the change must be determined before appropriate methods of analysis can be developed and maximum residue limits (MRLs) for commodities can be…

  • Withholding periods (residues)

    The withholding period (WHP) is defined in the Agvet Code as follows:

    Withholding period, in relation to the use of a chemical product, means the minimum period that needs to elapse between:

    (a) the last…

  • Stability of residues during storage (residues)

    This guideline provides information on the need for and conduct of storage stability trials. It does not give precise details on how such trials should be conducted.

    Further information on the conduct of storage stability trials…

  • The Record and Register

    When an active constituent is approved, an agricultural or veterinary (agvet) product is registered, or a label for an agvet product is approved, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) records certain particulars (the…

  • Antibiotic resistance

    Introduction

    Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health and animal health concern. Its development and spread is influenced by both human and non-human antimicrobial usage.

    Antimicrobial resistance is a property of…

  • Control of pest species in animal housing (residues)

    This guideline provides advice to applicants intending to register products for the control of pest species in animal housing, including sties, pens, stables, piggeries, poultry houses and feedlots. It covers situations in which residues…

  • Extrapolation of data: isomers (residues)

    This guideline establishes the requirements for residue:

    trials, when the active constituent (or technical grade active constituent) has various isomeric forms data, when the isomeric form (or ratio of the isomers) of the active…