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2 Monitoring- Report 2020 All is well with the apple at MRL capacity: almost 85% of the active substances detected only used up to a maximum of 10%. 70.8 % of the analysed samples presented one to a maxi- mum of three active substances. In 17.3% of the remaining samples, the detection of four to five and in a further 1.7% six to nine different pesticide active substances were de- tected per sample. In total, 40 different active substances were detected during the evaluation. For 84.9% of the detections, the concentration rate reached a maximum of 10% of the MRL. The MRL was exceeded in five cases (0.1%). One exceedance concerned the active substance chlorpyrifos and four others the active sub- stance 2-phenylphenol (also known as orthophenylphe- nol ).This active substance is mainly used as a preserving agent for the surface treatment of citrus fruits and is not ap- proved for apples. The most frequently detected substances were the fungici- des captan (1,257 samples), dithianon (468 samples) and trifloxystrobin (461 samples). The 1,847 appel samples analysed came from 15 countries of origin. The majority came from Germany (1,379 samples) and Austria (205 sam- ples). A total of 241 banana samples from eleven countries of origin were on the test bench. The complaint rate is very satisfactory and not "crooked" at all: it is only 0.8%. Of a total of 241 analysed samples, over 61% came from Ecuador (148 samples), followed by Colombia (27 samples) and Peru (22 samples). More than half of the samples (54.8%) were residue-free, another 7.1% contained only one active substance. In the remaining 92 samples (38.1%), two or more active substances were detected, including almost one third of all sam- ples from Ecuador. The only sample with five active substances came from Costa Rica. MRLs were used up to a maximum of 30% in 95.4% of all analysis results and were thus well below the limit values. Only two samples from Costa Rica exceeded the legal maximum residue levels, both for the insecticide buprofezin . In total, it was possible to analyse 15 different active substances, the most commonly detected were the fungicides thiabendazole and imazalil (every 5th sample), followed by azoxystrobin (every 6th sample), myclobutanil (every 12th sample) and fosetyl-Al (in almost every 20th sample). Bifenthrin, chlorpyrifos and buprofezin were among the most frequently detected insecticides. Bananas QS Fachgesellschaft Obst-Gemüse-Kartoffeln and DFHV Deutscher Fruchthandelsverband e.V. 316 blueberry samples from 14 countries were part of the evaluation: For 86% of the active substances detected, the maximum concentration was 30% of the MRL. With 144 samples, almost half of the analysed samples were from Germany. This was followed by 60 samples from the EU, mainly from Spain (34 samples), and 112 samples from non-EU countries, of which half were from Peru (71 samples). Nearly 70% of all samples contained none (33.2%) or only one active substance (36.4%). Of the samples with two or more active substances, 56% were from Chile and 42% from Germany. The only sample with seven active substan- ces detected came from Peru. A total of 32 different active substances were substantia- ted, most frequently the fungicides fosetyl-Al (almost every 4th sample), fludioxonil (every 5th sample) and cyprodinil (almost every 6th sample). The MRL concentration shows a positive picture: 86% of the detected substances only reached a concentration of a maximum of 30% of the MRL. Exceedances were found in 33 samples (10,4 %), including 29 samples from Peru and one sample from Argentina for fosetyl-Al . In April 2019, the MRL for the active substance was raised, reducing the rate of exceedance. Three samples from Germany showed MRL exceedances (2x fungicide dit- hianon /1x repellent picaridin ). Blueberries Apples Proportion of samples in % Number of active substances 0 1 2 3 4 5 54.8 7.1 14.1 8.7 14.9 0.4 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Exploitation of MRL in % Proportion of active substances in % *Basis: Number of all active substances detected ≤ 1 > 1-10 > 10-20 > 20-30 > 30-40 > 40-50 > 50-60 > 60-70 > 70-80 > 80-90 > 90-100 > 100 8.3 49.2 27.4 10.5 2.3 1.1 0.4 0 0 0 0 0.8 0 10 20 30 40 50 PERCENTAGE OF MRL EXPLOITATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES* NUMBER OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES DETECTED PER SAMPLE Proportion of samples in % Number of active substances 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 33.2 36.4 13.9 9.2 5.7 1.3 0 0.3 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 NUMBER OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES DETECTED PER SAMPLE Active substance Number of samples 0 20 40 60 80 100 Acetamiprid Captan (Sum) Phosmet (Sum) Thiacloprid Fenhexamide Tebuconazole Boscalid Cyprodinil Fludioxonil Fosetyl-Al (Sum) 6 7 10 17 27 27 47 62 65 82 TOP-10 OF THE DETECTED ACTIVE SUBSTANCES Proportion of samples in % Number of active substances 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.2 20.7 26.2 23.9 11.6 5.7 1.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Exploitation of MRL in % Proportion of active substances in % *Basis: Number of all active substances detected ≤ 1 > 1-10 > 10-20 > 20-30 > 30-40 > 40-50 > 50-60 > 60-70 > 70-80 > 80-90 > 90-100 > 100 14.9 70 10.9 2.5 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.1 0 0 0 0.1 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 PERCENTAGE OF MRL EXPLOITATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES* NUMBER OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES DETECTED PER SAMPLE