Icelandic results from the monitoring of pesticide residues in food ...

• Main Author: Icelandic Food And Veterinary Authority
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: pesticide residues; food control; monitoring; maximum residue levels; consumer risk assessment; agriculture; crops; plant-protection products; chemicals; Iceland; http//id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C3009; http//id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C1146; http//id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C846; http//id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C1470
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323525; https://zenodo.org/record/1323525

This dataset contains the analytical results of pesticide residues measured in the food products analysed by the national competent authorities. Pesticide residues resulting from the use of plant protection products on crops that are used for food or feed production may pose a risk factor for public health. For this reason, a comprehensive legislative framework has been established in the European Union (EU), which defines rules for the approval of active substances used in plant protection products, the use of plant protection products and for pesticide residues in food. In order to ensure a high level of consumer protection, legal limits, so called “maximum residue levels” or briefly “MRLs”, are established in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. EU-harmonised MRLs are set for all pesticides covering all types of food products. A default MRL of 0.01 mg/kg is applicable for pesticides not explicitly mentioned in the MRL legislation. Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 imposes on Member States the obligation to carry out ... : IS; CSV; [e-mail] ...