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.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Health and Safety Executive
• Published: 4 November 2020
• Last updated: 9 July 2021 — See all updates

Documents

Quarter 4 2020 report: pesticide residues monitoring programme

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Quarter 2 and 3 2020 report: pesticide residues monitoring programme

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Quarter 1 2020 report: pesticide residues monitoring programme

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Details

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.

Published 4 November 2020
Last updated 9 July 2021 + show all updates

1. 9 July 2021

   Added the 2020 quarter 4 report.

2. 18 March 2021

   Added the 2020 quarter 2 and 3 report.

3. 4 November 2020

   First published.