date:May 21, 2014
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The national programmes found that 97.5% of the food samples analysed contained pesticide residues that were within EU legal limits known as maximum residue levels (MRLs). Organic foods showed a lower MRL exceedance rate compared to non-organic products (0.5% versus 2.6%). The non-compliance rate of food imported into the EU, Norway and Iceland was four times higher than foods originating in these nations (3.7% compared to 0.9%).
The results of the EU coordinated programme showed that 98.1