CHEMICAL USAGE (AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY) CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 15
Duty to report chemical residues in or on relevant thing
CHEMICAL USAGE (AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY) CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 15
Duty to report chemical residues in or on relevant thing
15 Duty to report chemical residues in or on relevant thing
(1) This section applies to a person if the person becomes aware that the
residue of a chemical in or on a relevant thing is more than the maximum
residue limit prescribed for the thing.
Examples of persons to whom this
section may apply—
• a person conducting an analysis of a relevant thing
• a veterinary surgeon who treats a trade species animal
• a person who
monitors the residue of chemicals on agricultural produce for a supermarket or
grocery store
• a farmer who receives a report of an analysis of
agricultural produce from a laboratory based outside Queensland
(2) As soon
as practicable but within 24 hours after becoming aware, the person must—
(a) advise the standards officer that the residue of a chemical in or on the
relevant thing exceeds the maximum residue limit prescribed for the thing; and
(3) However,
the person is not required to comply with subsection (2) if the person becomes
aware, before the person would otherwise be required to advise the standards
officer under the subsection, that another person has advised the standards
officer as required under subsection (2) .
Example—
A person would not be
required to advise the standards officer that the residue of a chemical in or
on a relevant thing exceeds the maximum residue limit prescribed for the thing
if a person who conducted an analysis of the thing had already advised the
standards officer about it as soon as the results of the analysis were known.
(4) A person complies with subsection (2) (b) if the person gives the
standards officer a laboratory report about the residue of a chemical in or on
a sample of the relevant thing that contains all of the required information
for the relevant thing.
(5) However, if the laboratory report does not
contain all of the required information for the relevant thing, the person
only complies with subsection (2) (b) if the person also gives the standards
officer—
(a) the required information that is not contained in the
laboratory report for the relevant thing; and
(b) sufficient information for
the standards officer to identify the laboratory report to which the
required information mentioned in paragraph (a) relates.
Example—
the
sample number for the relevant thing the subject of the laboratory report
(6) In this section—
"distinguishing number" , for a relevant thing, includes a number with 1 or
more letters or symbols.
"laboratory number" , for a relevant thing, means the distinguishing number
given to a sample of the thing by a laboratory that analysed the thing.
"required information" , for a relevant thing, means the following information
about the thing—
(d) the name of the
residue of the chemical in or on the relevant thing;
(e) the concentration of
the residue of the chemical in or on the relevant thing;
(f) the maximum
residue limit prescribed for the residue of the chemical in or on the relevant
thing;
(g) the name and address of the person who manufactured or produced
the relevant thing;
(h) if the information mentioned in paragraph (g) is not
reasonably available—the name and address of the person from whom the
relevant thing was obtained.
"sample number" , for a relevant thing, means a distinguishing number given to
the sample of the thing by a person who made the sample of the thing.