Head cabbages from Netherlands
How often official samples of head cabbages grown in Netherlands break the EU maximum residue level for pesticides, by why the sample was taken.
There are only 2 random market samples, too few for a market rate. UK supermarkets: 11 samples since 2022, 0 above the UK limit.
Random market samples
2 random samples (0 over the limit). That is too few for a market rate: one is shown from 30.
Also on file, never turned into a rate because inspectors chose them: 13 risk-based and 0 follow-up samples.
UK supermarket samples
| Month | Retailer | Residues found (mg/kg) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | Tesco | none found |
| 2025-10 | Other shops | clopyralid 0.04 (MRL = 3); Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.09 (MRL = 2) |
| 2025-02 | Other shops | clopyralid 0.03 (MRL = 3); Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.09 (MRL = 2) |
| 2025-01 | Other shops | Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.07 (MRL = 2) |
| 2022-11 | Other shops | propamocarb (sum) 0.02 (MRL = 1); Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.03 (MRL = 2) |
| 2022-11 | Other shops | Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.1 (MRL = 2) |
| 2022-11 | Other shops | propamocarb (sum) 0.02 (MRL = 1); Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.03 (MRL = 2) |
| 2022-11 | Other shops | Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.1 (MRL = 2) |
| 2022-10 | Other shops | Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.04 (MRL = 2) |
| 2022-10 | Other shops | Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.04 (MRL = 2) |
| 2022-02 | Other shops | propamocarb (sum) 0.01 (MRL = 1); Spirotetramat (partial sum) 0.02 (MRL = 2) |
Defra's Pesticide Residues in Food programme. UK limits mirror the EU's as retained in 2021 and may since differ.
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