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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/741 concerning a coordinated multiannual control programme of the Union for 2023, 2024 and 2025 to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/601.

Country/Territory
European Union
Document type
Regulation
Date
2022
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Official Journal of the European Union L 137, 16 May 2022, pp. 12-24.
Subject
Livestock, Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety MRL-maximum residue limit Inspection Pesticides Breastfeeding/infant food Ecological production/organic production Consumer protection Nutrition Animal feed/feedstuffs Residues
Geographical area
European Union Countries
Entry into force notes
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2023.
Abstract

This Regulation sets out the products of plant origin and animal origin to be sampled in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and pesticide residue/product combinations to be analyzed in/on products of plant origin and animal origin in Annex I to this Regulation. All samples, including those of foods intended for infants and young children and products originating from organic farming, shall be analyzed for the pesticides referred to in Annex I to this Regulation in accordance with the residue definitions set out in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. Furthermore, Annex II sets out the number of samples of each product to be taken and analyzed.

Full text
English
Website
eur-lex.europa.eu

References - Legislation

Implements

Regulation (EC) No. 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC.

Legislation | European Union | 2005

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Inspection, Consumer protection, Pesticides, Animal feed/feedstuffs

Source: FAO, FAOLEX