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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12693

8 April 2021
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Food safety
Residues of one or more pesticides present in almost half of all foods, according to latest EFSA report
Brussels, 07/04/2021 (Agence Europe)

Nearly half of the foods analysed in 2019 in 30 European countries contained residues of at least one pesticide, according to the EFSA report published on 7 April on the summary of the results of official controls carried out by EU Member States, Iceland and Norway in 2019, and the EU-coordinated control programme (EUCP).

However, EFSA considers that there is no cause for concern for the health of consumers, as a total of 96.1% of the 96,302 samples analysed are within the legally...

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