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MISSION
HEALTH & CONSUMERS DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
Directorate F - Food and Veterinary Office
Unit 4 - Food of plant origin, plant health; processing and distribution,
In cooperation with JRC IRMM, Food Safety and Quality Unit
Rev. 8 September 2008
MISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT

Monitoring of Pesticide Residues
in Products of Plant Origin
in the European Union, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein
2006
Table of contents
ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL TERMS USED IN THE REPORT 3
1. INTRODUCTION 3
2. LEGAL BASIS 3
3. MAXIMUM RESIDUE LEVELS (MRL), ACCEPTABLE DAILY INTAKES (ADI) AND ACUTE REFERENCE DOSES (ARFD) 3
4. NATIONAL MONITORING PROGRAMMES 3
. Monitoring results for 2006 3
. Results of the 2006 national monitoring pared to the previous years 3
. Samples with multiple residues 3
. Most frequently found pesticides 3
5. THE EU CO-ORDINATED MONITORING PROGRAMME 3
. Sampling design applied in the 2006 EU co-ordinated monitoring programme 3
. Evaluation by pesticide 3
. Evaluation modity 3
. Evaluation by binations 3
. Indicative Exposure Assessment 3
6. SAMPLING 3
7. QUALITY ASSURANCE 3
8. RAPID ALERT SYSTEM 3
9. SUMMARY 3
. National Monitoring programmes 3
. EU co-ordinated monitoring programme 3
. Quality assurance and sampling 3

ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL TERMS USED IN THE REPORT
ADI Acceptable Daily Intake
ARfD Acute Reference Dose
EEA European Economic Area
EFSA European Food Safety Authority
EU European Union
FAPAS Food Analysis Proficiency Assessment Scheme
GAP Good Agricultural Practice
JMPR Joint FAO/WHO Meetings for Pesticide Residues
LOQ Limit of Quantification
MRL Maximum Residue Level
RASFF EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
Introduction
This is a report on pesticide residues monitoring for the calendar year 2006 in the 25 Member States of the EU and the three EFTA States who have signed the EEA agreement Agreement on the European Economic Area
(Norway, Iceland and Liechten