Border checks By origin By product Substances UK supermarkets Method

EFSA sample data 2020–2024 from 6 reporting countries; UK samples to 2026-07-21.

By origin country

Countries whose products have enough official samples for at least one page.

Outside the EU

EU member states

Belgium 8
Cyprus 3
France 66
Germany 12
Greece 2
Ireland 1
Italy 37
Netherlands 28
Poland 2
Portugal 2
Spain 37

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An official sample above the maximum residue level (MRL) is a legal finding about one lot, not a health verdict: MRLs are set well below toxicological limits, and many are set at the limit of quantification for substances not approved in the EU. Rates are k of n samples, never averaged across products or origins.

Part of fruit-risk — origin-risk instruments for food & agri-trade. Sister sites: RASFF border rejections, FDA import refusals.

Sample data: EFSA, national results from the monitoring of pesticide residues in food (Zenodo), CC BY 4.0. UK data: Defra, Pesticide Residues in Food, Open Government Licence v3.0. Border-check frequencies: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 and its amendments (EUR-Lex). Not affiliated with EFSA, the European Commission or Defra.
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