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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12075

2 August 2018
SECTORAL POLICIES / Food safety
Mixtures of toxic pesticides in food still not assessed by EFSA, denounces PAN Europe
Brussels, 01/08/2018 (Agence Europe)

Toxic mixtures of pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables continue to flood EU markets, stated PAN Europe (Pesticides Action Europe) with alarm on Wednesday 1 August.  This comes after the latest report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on pesticide residues in food.

EFSA and PAN Europe draw totally different conclusions from the 2018 report which summarises the results of controls carried out in 2016 on 84,657 test samples in processed and non-processed food (see...