date:Jul 30, 2018
rom EU and EEA countries; for samples from non-EU countries, it was 7.2 percent.
Key results for 2016
The reporting countries analyzed 84,657 samples for 791 pesticides with 96.2 percent (81.482) of the samples were within limits allowed under EU legislation and 50.7 percent of the samples tested did not contain quantifiable residues.
In the previous reporting year (2015), 97.2 percent of the samples were within the legal limits and 53.3 percent were free from quantifiable residues. The diffe