The 2023 European Union report on pesticide residues in food

Under European Union legislation (Article 32, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005), the European Food Safety Authority publishes an annual report assessing the pesticide residue levels in food. In 2023, as part of the EU-coordinated multiannual control programme subset, 13,246 samples placed on the European market were analysed, with a 1.0% found to be non-compliant. Risk-based sampling procedures were used for the remaining 132,793 samples with a 2.0% non-compliant rate. Both dietary acute and chronic risk to consumers' health were estimated providing the probabilities of exceedance of the health-based guidance values (HBGV) for the pesticides in food by the different subpopulation of European consumers. This meant…

• EF
  European Food Safety Authority
• EC
  European Commission

  Awards: 2020a, 2019-2021