The 2023 European Union report on pesticide residues in food.

ABSTRACT: Under European Union legislation (Article 32, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005), the European Food Safety Authority publishes an annual report assessing the pesticide residue levels in food. In 2023, as part of the EU-coordinated multiannual control programme subset, 13,246 samples placed on the European market were analysed, with a 1.0% found to be non-compliant. Risk-based sampling procedures were used for the remaining 132,793 samples with a 2.0% non-compliant rate. Both dietary acute and chronic risk to consumers' health were estimated providing the probabilities of exceedance of the health-based guidance values (HBGV) for the pesticides in food by the different subpopulation of European consumers. This meant dropping the deterministic assessment used in the past. Overall, the dietary risk

SUBMITTER: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12076349 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature