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Australian wine industry to benefit from standardised chemical residue limits

The Australian wine industry has welcomed an agreement by APEC countries to standardise chemical residue limits in wine.

The move is reported to see winemakers save millions of dollars through the standardisation, and a meeting of the APEC Wine Regulatory Forum has now agreed to start work on setting the maximum residue limits, ABC New reports.

At present, each country in the APEC region has its own rules for the maximum allowed level of chemical residue making wine exports to some nations challenging.

General manager of strategy and international affairs at the Winemakers Federation of Australia Tony Battaglene, said that the new limits  – which may take up to two years to come into full effect – will reap great benefits for the Australian wine industry.

"It means that you can just produce one batch of wine that can be sold in any market in the world, so it's tremendously exciting in that we have flexibility to produce wine according to one method that can go anywhere in the world," Battaglene told ABC News.

"It will save millions of dollars. It will increase efficiencies. It will help the whole supply chain activity."

 

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