New Report: Food in Europe is “Largely Free of Pesticide Residues”
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) released results from its most recent annual testing of pesticide levels in food. EFSA says that “Europeans continue to eat food that is largely free of pesticide residues or which contains levels of residues within legal limits.”
As part of its annual report, EFSA analyzes the results of the EU-coordinated control programme (EUCP), under which reporting countries analyze samples from the same “basket” of food items and for the same pesticides. For 2016 the products were apples, head cabbage, leek, lettuce, peaches, strawberries, tomatoes, rye, wine, cow’s milk, and swine fat.