The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) carry out the UK monitoring programme testing pesticide residues in food. This is organised annually into surveys of different foods and drinks in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and in Northern Ireland. HSE publish reports every quarter in which the results for each quarter are considered in further detail and provides a commentary on the results in the tables. HSE also publish an annual report which collates all the results and discusses the results in further detail. The reports are available at Pesticide residues in food: results of monitoring programme - GOV.UK. As part of the programme, each year 4 or 5 surveys are selected as “rolling reports”, these food or drinks are where you may expect there to be a higher rate of non-compliance, therefore we test these more frequently. Initially these results are published in the BNA format only and in due course included in the relevant quarterly report.
The data set shows pesticide residues in different foods types, presented in 2 different table formats. The BNA format focusses on the details of individual samples, including brand name and country of origin, and also lists any pesticides detected. The SUM format focuses on the analysis and results across the set of samples, including detail of all the pesticides sought but not found.
If you have any queries regarding the results within the tables, please contact:
Pesticide Residues Monitoring Team
Health and Safety Executive
Chemicals Regulation Division
Mallard House, Kings Pool
3 Peasholme Green
York
YO1 7PX
e-mail: pesticideresiduesmonitoring@hse.gov.uk
