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.