Monitoring-Report-FVP-2019

Issue 2019 MONITORING- REPORT QS and DFHV – Focusing on the residue situation of fruit and vegetables during the last 10 years Detailed evaluations, interesting facts and background information for practitioners – the an- nual publication of the Monitoring-Report Fruit, Vegetables, Potatoes ensures transparency in the fresh fruit and vegetables’ residue situation since 2010. For the tenth time QS and the DFHV have jointly evaluated analysis data: from the first issue of the Monitoring-Report until today, 186,918 samples of fruit and vegetables have been analysed and detailed evaluations of 48 products have been published – from apples to zucchini. The exceedance rate* of the past ten years is 1.9% on average (s. diagram). A clear evidence of the high sense of responsibility of the companies within the QS scheme and of the DFHV’s members. More than 24,000 fruit and vegetable analyses A publication of QS Fachgesellschaft Obst-Gemüse-Kartoffeln and DFHV Deutscher Fruchthandelsverband e.V. AFRICA NUMBER OF SAMPLES (TOTAL): 2,179 NO MRL EXCEEDANCE: 1,961 EXCEEDANCE RATE: 10.0% Samples per country Samples with complaints CURRENT FIGURES AT A GLANCE Evaluation period: 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018 Total number of samples analysed: 24,357 Number of sample countries: 78 Samples with no active substances detected: 10,158 (41.7%) Samples with active substances: 14,199 (58.3%) Rejected samples due to maximum residue level (MRL) exceedance*: 644 Exceedance rate (total): 2.6% – Exceedance rate Germany: 0.7% – Exceedance rate EU (not including Germany): 1.8% – Exceedance rate non-EU countries: 7.2% * Based on the actual value (measured without taking into account an analytical measurement uncertainty of ± 50 percent) Number of analysed samples per continent (top-10) Fruit Residue analyses for raspberry, passion fruit, lemon and lime Page 2 Vegetables Residue analyses for cauliflower, lamb’s lettuce and tomato Under the microscope Multiple, heavy metal and fosetyl-Al residues Morocco 608 38 South Africa 564 13 Madagascar 457 141 Egypt 225 14 Kenya 101 10 Senegal 46 0 Zimbabwe 41 0 Ivory Coast 35 1 Ghana 16 0 Zambia 15 0 NORTH/SOUTH AMERICA NUMBER OF SAMPLES (TOTAL): 2,575 NO MRL EXCEEDANCE: 2,455 EXCEEDANCE RATE: 4.7% Samples per country Samples with complaints Brazil 746 44 Chile 493 11 Peru 490 22 Colombia 165 9 Costa Rica 154 2 Ecuador 108 2 Mexico 105 8 Argentina 73 6 Uruguay 65 2 Dominican Republic 61 3 EUROPE NUMBER OF SAMPLES (TOTAL): 18,432 NO MRL EXCEEDANCE: 18,215 EXCEEDANCE RATE: 1.2% Samples per country Samples with complaints Germany 10,770 76 Spain 2,783 35 Netherlands 1,527 14 Italy 1,282 40 Belgium 1,215 29 Austria 288 0 France 231 4 Greece 104 4 Portugal 70 5 Poland 50 4 ASIA/PACIFIC NUMBER OF SAMPLES (TOTAL): 1,171 NO MRL EXCEEDANCE: 1,082 EXCEEDANCE RATE: 7.6% Samples per country Samples with complaints Turkey 299 47 Israel 284 15 India 214 4 China 202 12 New Zealand 75 0 Thailand 28 5 Australia 22 4 Vietnam 20 2 Malaysia 19 0 Indonesia 4 0 Number of samples Year of issue 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 6,271 11,616 13,721 16,059 16,446 17,306 26,065 28,306 26,771 24,357 Exceedance rate Quantity of samples 1.7% 2.0% 1.7% 1.3% 1.1% 0.85% 3.1% 2.5% 2.6% 2.2% ANALYSED FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SAMPLES 2010-2019 Page 3 Page 4 *The exceedance rate refers to the legally defined maximum residue levels (MRLs).