Health and Safety Executive
Monitoring Obligations
under MRL legislation-
Helena Cooke
Policy Implementation
Outline of talk
• Why monitor?
• EU obligations and developments
• Findings
• Risk assessment, risk management and RASFF
• EFSA annual report
Why monitor ?
Relevance of Monitoring of Pesticide Residues in food.
The European Union: 500 million people – 27 countries
Member states of the European Union
Candidate countries
Farm to Fork- integrated approach
European Legislation
Official food and feed controls
• EU Official Food and Feed Controls (OFFC) regime
• Food & feed controls must be :– Risk-based, carried out regularly and at
appropriate frequency– Covered by a single, co-ordinated, national
control plan covering several years– Staff must be trained and competent– Laboratories must be competent and audited
UK NCP- Farm to Fork principles
• 140,000 FBO
EU legislation requires member States to …
• carry out regular official controls on pesticide residues in food commodities to check compliance with MRLs (legal limits)
• establish national monitoring programmes
• take part in a specific EU coordinated monitoring
• take effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions
• Submit annual results to EFSA
UK Risk Based Plan
UK Risk Based Plan
European programme
EU Coordinated control Plan Reg 915/2010
• EU Co-ordinated Community Monitoring Programme for Pesticide Residues
• 3 year rolling programme 30-40 food which constitute major components of Union diet
• 8 fruit and vegetable foods
• 1 cereal
• 2 food of animal origin
• 185 pesticides to be sought..
Who checks that MS comply?
• Commission auditors (FVO).
• Within EU
• Exporting
countries
Findings
Findings European 2008 vs. UK
EU harmonised-
• 11,610 samples EU
• 70,000 national
• 78 pesticides sought
• 3.5% exceed MRL
• 35.7% contained residues above RL.
• 135 findings above ARfD
• 35 cases where consumer risk could not be excluded
UK National 2008
• 4129
• 27 fruit and vegetables
• 240
• 2.1% of fruit and vegetables (1.2% overall)
• 45% contained residues
• Some surveys targeted
• 13 RASFF’s
Compliance- UK
Development- pesticides sought in EU programme
More multi-residue pesticides
• ametryn
• anthraquinone
• bixafen
• chinomethoionate
• chlorbromuron
• chloroxuron
• dicamba
• dichlorprop-P
• fenobucarb
• fenpropidin
• formothion
• fluroxypyr
• imazapyr
• metalumizone
• sulfotep
• topramezone
SRM- costs
• inorganic bromide
• maleic hydrazide
• glufosinate ammonium
• aminopyralid
• clopyralid
• ethephon
• glyphosate
• dithiocarbamates.
SCOPE
• Olive oil
• wine (wine grapes)
• products of animal origin
Fish ?
Animal Feed
stuffs
Risk assessment
• In the UK, CRD takes this role
• Potential intakes of national consumer groups from actual detected residues, reflecting national culinary practice and diets calculated and compared with ADI and/or ARfD
• This may give a different answer to PRIMO
Risk Assessment monitoring
EU results EFSA
• Uses PRIMO
• European diet
• 97.5th percentile
• Highest residue from monitoring
• Applies variability factor
• Determines critical consumer
UK Monitoring CRD
• Use national dietary consumption data
• Acute intake model
• Uses 97.5th percentile
• Assumes highest residue from monitoring
• Applies variability factor
• Determines critical consumer
Risk management
• The Food Standards Agency leads on this in the UK
• CRD have a risk assessment and risk management role
• Decisions on action to be taken on national basis:
• Range of options, potentially including withdrawal
• For foods traded outside the country, RASFF notification
Follow Up Activity
Actions –follow up and enforcement- European level
Non compliance posing risk to consumers is followed up
• Commission audits by FVO
• Specific monitoring obligations in the co-ordinated plan e.g. amitraz in pears
• Increased border inspection requirements for high risk food products (Regulation (EC) 669/2009)
Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)
RASFF portal
• RASFF notifications can be searched by various parameters
• Useful to :– Watch progress on current issue– Research past occurrences
Published information does NOT include full details available to food safety officials.
Increased border controls- 669/2009 controls
• acetamiprid , amitraz, acephate, aldicarb, benomyl, carbendazim, chlorfenapyr, chlorpyrifos, carbaryl, carbofuran, chlorpyriphos-ethyl ,clothianidin, cyfluthrin,cyprodinil,CS2 (dithiocarbamates), diafenthiuron, diazinon, dichlorvos, dicrotophos, dicofol, dimethoate, endosulfan, EPN, ethion, fenamidone, fenitrothion, fenpropathrin , fludioxonil, hexaflumuron, imidacloprid, lambda-cyhalothrin, malathion, metalaxyl, methamidophos, methiocarb, methomyl, monocrotophos, omethoate, oxamyl, oxydemeton-methyl, phenthoate, profenofos, propargite, propiconazole, prophenophos, prothiophos, quinalphos ,thiabendazole, thiamethoxam, thiacloprid, thiophanate-methyl, triazophos, triadimefon, triforine
EU (EFSA) Annual Report
• Based on data from national and EU monitoring from each member State.
• Contents:– Rates of compliance, including patterns by
country and food– EU consumer risk assessment, using all the
data supplied – Recommendations – can relate to PPP
registrations as well as future monitoring
European monitoring
As the co-ordinated programme increases in scope and breadth.
• Increased analytical capability required
• Increased commitment on the official laboratories for training, workshops, EU proficiency tests
• Stronger evidence to take European action
• More evidence to check whether food in EU is safe Farm to Fork ?
European monitoring- integral to Farm to Fork policy.
