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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12693
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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

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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