date:Apr 14, 2021
According to the latest report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the non-compliance rate for pesticides in foods decreased in 2019. For 2019, 96.1 percent of the 96,302 samples analyzed fell below the maximum residue level (MRL). Another 3.9 percent, or 3,720 samples, exceeded this level, of which 2,252 were non‐compliant based on measurement uncertainty.
The number of samples tested in 2019 grew compared to 91,015 in 2018. Reporting countries looked for 799 different pes