European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Under European Union legislation (Article 32, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005), the European Food Safety Authority provides an annual report assessing the pesticide residue levels in foods on the European market.  The 2022 European Union report on pesticide residues in food can be accessed at this link: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/8753

Here is an extraction from the 2022 report: “In 2022, 96.3% of the overall 110,829 samples analysed fell below the maximum residue level (MRL), 3.7% exceeded this level, of which 2.2% were non-compliant, i.e. results in a given sample exceeded the MRL after taking into account the measurement uncertainty. For the EU-coordinated multiannual control programme subset, 11,727 samples were analysed of which 0.9% were non-compliant.”