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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11084

22 May 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) food
Pesticide residues in food - reassuring news from EFSA

Brussels, 21/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - More than 97% of the samples tested as part of the European programme to monitor pesticides in food showed residue rates within the limits tolerated by EU legislation, according to the latest annual report on the subject, which was published on Tuesday 20 May by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). This report, the fifth of its kind, summarises the results of the tests carried out in 2011 in 27 member states of the EU, plus Norway and Iceland.

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SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
EXTERNAL ACTION
CULTURE - YOUTH - SPORT
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
INSTITUTIONAL