Your Daily Poison - Pesticide Action Network UK
Your Daily Poison - Pesticide Action Network UK
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APPENDIX 5a<br />
Food residues (Europe)<br />
Results of the eighteen national monitoring programmes for pesticide residues on fresh (including frozen) fruit, vegetables and<br />
cereals, sum of surveillance and enforcement samples.<br />
Country Number of samples<br />
analysed<br />
Exceedances of Acute Reference Dose levels<br />
Exposure assessment for acute risk from the pesticides investigated in the 2003 coordinated programme for the products with<br />
the highest residues found in a composite sample in the European Union. The calculation was performed with the <strong>UK</strong> Exposure<br />
Model for an adult (70.1 kg) and a toddler (15.5 kg) and only those pesticides which have acute toxicity and where an acute<br />
Reference Dose has been set.<br />
28<br />
% of samples without<br />
detectable residues<br />
% of samples with<br />
residues below or at<br />
MRL<br />
% of samples with<br />
confirmed residues<br />
above the MRL<br />
% of samples with<br />
multiple residues<br />
2002 2003 2002 2003 2002 2003 2002 2003 2002 2003<br />
Belgium 1028 1250 55 55 40 41 2.5 4.2 15.2 12.1<br />
Denmark 1977 1530 60 54 38 43 2.4 2.9 17.7 22.8<br />
Germany 7035 10586 46 43 45 49 5.1 8.4 31.1 32.1<br />
Greece 1661 1659 56 77 42 21 1.9 2.2 7.8 5.4<br />
Spain 4049 3670 62 66 35 30 3.5 4.5 8.6 7.9<br />
France 3721 3372 47 50 44 43 6.2 7.0 29.9 23.7<br />
Ireland 617 1022 52 59 44 37 4.2 3.5 18.2 12.6<br />
Italy 8095 7172 70 69 28 29 1.1 1.7 14.0 13.3<br />
Luxembourg 118 107 60 50 36 48 1.7 1.9 11.9 11.2<br />
Netherlands 3042 2549 46 42 38 44 8.2 14.4 31.1 33.7<br />
Austria 1637 1404 46 69 38 27 8.2 4.0 29.2 13.5<br />
Portugal 722 363 74 61 23 30 2.8 9.4 9.6 12.9<br />
Finland 1985 1725 49 55 46 38 4.1 6.7 27.7 22.4<br />
Sweden 2073 2131 58 50 37 43 4.0 6.9 17.7 22.4<br />
United<br />
Kingdom<br />
2087 2452 56 66 43 33 1.6 1.0 20.7 15.9<br />
Norway 2280 2164 66 63 30 34 3.4 2.3 15.5 17.7<br />
Iceland 278 313 53 61 45 38 2.5 1.3 23.7 8.9<br />
Liechtenstein 47 47 81 70 17 28 0.0 2.1 0.0 4.3<br />
MRL = Maximum Residue Level (legal trade limit, not safety limit)<br />
Source: Monitoring of pesticide residues in products of plant origin in the European Union, Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein, 2002 and 2003 [latest data, November<br />
2005]<br />
Food item<br />
sampled, 2002<br />
<strong>Pesticide</strong> Exceedances: intake as<br />
percentage of Acute<br />
Reference Dose<br />
Food item<br />
sampled, 2003<br />
<strong>Pesticide</strong> Exceedances: intake as<br />
percentage of Acute<br />
Reference Dose<br />
Potatoes Aldicarb 151% (toddler) Cucumber Oxydemeton-methyl 400% (toddler)<br />
Beans Methamidophos 477% (toddler) Grapes Chlorpyrifos 147% (toddler)<br />
Beans Methiocarb 381% (toddler) Grapes Dimethoate 112% (toddler)<br />
Carrots Diazinon 103% (toddler) Grapes Lambda-cyhalothrin 334% (toddler)<br />
Peach Acephate 160% (toddler) Grapes Methomyl 257% (toddler)<br />
Peaches Parathion 161% (toddler) Grapes Methomyl 1035% (toddler)<br />
Carrots Aldicarb 134% (toddler) Sweet peppers Endosulfan 217% (toddler)<br />
Oranges Methidathion 125% (toddler) Sweet peppers Methamidophos 164% (toddler)<br />
Oranges Triazophos 393% (toddler) Sweet peppers Methiocarb 142% (toddler)<br />
Spinach Methomyl 116% (adult), 351% Sweet peppers Triazophos 187% (adult), 507%<br />
(adult), 456% (toddler)<br />
(toddler)<br />
Spinach Oxydemeton-methyl 102% (adult), 310%<br />
(adult), 404% (toddler)<br />
<strong>Your</strong> daily poison:
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