Research and analysis

Pesticide residues in food: quarterly monitoring results for 2020

Results from the quarterly monitoring programme to check UK grown and imported food for pesticide residues.

Documents

Quarter 4 2020 report: pesticide residues monitoring programme

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Quarterly results from the government’s monitoring programme to check UK grown and imported food for any pesticide residues.

The data from the monitoring programme is published on data.gov.uk.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sampling programme was suspended between April and June 2020. This has meant that a small number of samples collected that were due to be published in Quarter 2 2020, have been delayed until we were able to resume the sampling programme. The Quarter 3 2020 report was published in March 2021 and includes results for samples collected in Quarter 2 2020.

Updates to this page

Published 4 November 2020
Last updated 9 July 2021 + show all updates
  1. Added the 2020 quarter 4 report.

  2. Added the 2020 quarter 2 and 3 report.

  3. First published.

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