The 2012 European Union Report on pesticide residues in food
Abstract The report summarises the results of the control activities related to pesticide residues in food carried out in 2012 in the EU Member States, Norway and Iceland (hereafter referred to as reporting countries). A total of 78,390 samples of more than 750 food products were analysed for pestic...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b7b984872ae44e5cab2cd6d259cca5c7 2023-05-15T16:51:53+02:00 The 2012 European Union Report on pesticide residues in food European Food Safety Authority 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2014.3942 https://doaj.org/article/b7b984872ae44e5cab2cd6d259cca5c7 EN eng Wiley https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2014.3942 https://doaj.org/toc/1831-4732 1831-4732 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2014.3942 https://doaj.org/article/b7b984872ae44e5cab2cd6d259cca5c7 EFSA Journal, Vol 12, Iss 12, Pp n/a-n/a (2014) pesticide residues food control monitoring Maximum Residue Levels consumer risk assessment Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 Nutrition. Foods and food supply TX341-641 Chemical technology TP1-1185 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2014.3942 2022-12-31T12:32:26Z Abstract The report summarises the results of the control activities related to pesticide residues in food carried out in 2012 in the EU Member States, Norway and Iceland (hereafter referred to as reporting countries). A total of 78,390 samples of more than 750 food products were analysed for pesticide residues. A substantial number of samples from third countries (6,472 samples) were taken for products subject to increased import controls under Regulation (EC) No 669/2009. In the framework of the EU‐coordinated monitoring programme which is aimed at providing statistically representative results for the EU, 10,235 samples of 12 different food commodities were analysed for 205 different pesticides. Overall, 98.3 % of the tested food samples were compliant with the legal limits; 54.9 % of the samples contained no quantifiable residues at all. In general, a higher prevalence of residues exceeding the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) was observed for products imported from third countries (7.5 % for imported products versus 1.4 % for products produced in one of the reporting countries). On the basis of the dietary exposure assessment performed for the pesticides covered by the EU‐coordinated monitoring programme EFSA concluded that according to the current scientific knowledge, the presence of residues found in food in 2012 was unlikely to have a long‐term effect on the health of consumers. In 280 cases of the total of 1,765,663 determinations reported for food products covered by the EU‐coordinated programme the residues occurred in concentrations where a potential short‐term consumer health outcome could not be excluded if the products were consumed in high quantities. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Norway EFSA Journal 12 12 |
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Abstract The report summarises the results of the control activities related to pesticide residues in food carried out in 2012 in the EU Member States, Norway and Iceland (hereafter referred to as reporting countries). A total of 78,390 samples of more than 750 food products were analysed for pesticide residues. A substantial number of samples from third countries (6,472 samples) were taken for products subject to increased import controls under Regulation (EC) No 669/2009. In the framework of the EU‐coordinated monitoring programme which is aimed at providing statistically representative results for the EU, 10,235 samples of 12 different food commodities were analysed for 205 different pesticides. Overall, 98.3 % of the tested food samples were compliant with the legal limits; 54.9 % of the samples contained no quantifiable residues at all. In general, a higher prevalence of residues exceeding the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) was observed for products imported from third countries (7.5 % for imported products versus 1.4 % for products produced in one of the reporting countries). On the basis of the dietary exposure assessment performed for the pesticides covered by the EU‐coordinated monitoring programme EFSA concluded that according to the current scientific knowledge, the presence of residues found in food in 2012 was unlikely to have a long‐term effect on the health of consumers. In 280 cases of the total of 1,765,663 determinations reported for food products covered by the EU‐coordinated programme the residues occurred in concentrations where a potential short‐term consumer health outcome could not be excluded if the products were consumed in high quantities. |
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