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Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented about remarkable results found in our own laboratories in residue analysis.
Notification from RASFF 05/01 – 05/31/2022
Via this link you can download a table from the European Rapid alert system (RASFF) with important notifications from product category fruit & vegetables. We have selected only the messages that have been classified as “serious”.
This time, the vine leaves from Turkey create a new negative record with residues of 14 different active substances in one sample with horrendously high limit value exceedings, including one banned active substance.
RASFF fruit & vegetables (May 2022)
|
Product |
Country |
Active substance |
Reported (MRL) |
|
Bananas |
Colombia |
Imazalil |
0,031 (0,01) |
|
Ecuador |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
?** (0,01) |
|
|
Ecuador |
Imazalil |
0,032 (0,01) |
|
|
Ecuador |
Imazalil |
0,186 (0,01) |
|
|
Beans |
Kenya |
Acephate +) |
0,037 (0,01) |
|
Methamidophos +) |
0,031 (0,01) |
||
|
Kenya |
Acephate +) |
0,043 (0,01) |
|
|
Hexaconazol +) |
0,059 (0,01) |
||
|
Methamidophos +) |
0,026 (0,01) |
||
|
Chillies |
Kenya |
Acephate +) |
0,37 (0,01) |
|
Methamidophos +) |
0,16 (0,01) |
||
|
Turkey |
Acetamiprid |
0,874 (0,3) |
|
|
Cranberries (frozen) |
Canada (packed in USA) |
Quinclorac +) |
0,088 (0,01) |
|
Drumsticks |
India |
Methamidophos +) |
0,055 (0,01) |
|
Permethrin+) |
0,062 (0,01) |
||
|
Grapefruit |
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl+) |
0,088 (0,01) |
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl+) |
?** (0,01) |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
?** (0,01) |
|
|
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
?** (0,01) |
||
|
Grapefruit (red) |
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
0,022 (0,01) |
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,156 (0,01) ! |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,17 (0,01) ! |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,076 (0,01) |
|
|
Lemons |
Turkey |
Buprofezin |
0,035 (0,01) |
|
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,034 (0,01) |
||
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,037 (0,01) |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,091 (0,01) |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,096 (0,01) |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,081 (0,01) |
|
|
Fenvalerate |
0,045 (0,02) |
||
|
Turkey |
Fenbutatin oxide +) |
0,17 (0,01) |
|
|
Propiconazol |
0,025 (0,01) |
||
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
0,130 (0,01) ! |
|
|
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,047 (0,01) |
||
|
Prochloraz +) |
0,299 (0,03) ! |
||
|
Turkey |
Prochloraz +) |
1,466 (0,03) !! |
|
|
Lychees |
Vietnam |
Permethrin +) |
1,14 (0,05) ! |
|
Oranges |
Egypt |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
0,032 (0,01) |
|
Egypt |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
0,066 (0,01) |
|
|
Egypt |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
0,094 (0,01) |
|
|
Passion fruit |
Colombia |
Acephate +) |
0,076 (0,01) |
|
Dimethoate +) |
0,013 (0,01) |
||
|
Omethoate +) |
0,024 (0,01) |
||
|
Orthophenylphenol |
0,22 (0,01) |
||
|
Peppers (fresh) |
Albania |
Formetanate |
0,08 (0,01) |
|
Turkey |
Acetamiprid |
1,13 (0,3) |
|
|
Turkey |
Acetamiprid |
0,722 (0,3) |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos +) |
0,331 (0,01) |
|
|
Turkey |
Flonicamid |
0,643 (0,3) |
|
|
Turkey |
Formetanate |
0,093 (0,01) |
|
|
Turkey |
Chlorpyrifos-methyl +) |
0,157 (0,01) ! |
|
|
Formetanate |
0,150 (0,01) ! |
||
|
Uganda |
Acetamiprid |
0,016 (0,01) |
|
|
Carbendazim +) |
0,037 (0,01) |
||
|
Cypermethrin |
0,057 (0,01) |
||
|
Rambutan* |
Cambodia |
Buprofezin |
0,036 (0,01) |
|
Cypermethrin |
8,7 (0,05) !! |
||
|
Lambda-Cyhalothrin |
0,042 (0,01) |
||
|
Vine leaves |
Turkey |
Dithiocarbamates |
1,23 (0,05) ! |
|
Metalaxyl |
0,069 (0,01) |
||
|
Tetraconazole |
0,05 (0,01) |
||
|
Turkey |
Dithiocarbamates |
0,91 (0,05) ! |
|
|
Lambda-Cyhalothrin |
0,037 (0,01) |
||
|
Metalaxyl |
0,074 (0,01) |
||
|
Turkey |
Dithiocarbamates |
3,5 (0,05) ! |
|
|
Lambda-Cyhalothrin |
0,042 (0,01) |
||
|
Metalaxyl |
0,056 (0,01) |
||
|
Triadimenol |
0,11 (0,01) |
||
|
Watermelons |
Turkey |
Bromopropylate |
0,023 (0,01) |
|
Imidacloprid +) |
0,017 |
+) application is prohibited
* Rambutan ("false lychee") is assigned to cherimoya according to Regulation (EU) 752/2014
"Reclassification of product groups", thus the same MRL applies to rambutan.
** Error message when calling up detailed information on this warning on the RASFF website.
It was further reported:
|
Product |
Country |
Reasons for complaint/rejection |
|
Avocado |
Peru |
Cadmium 0,08 mg/kg (0,05 mg/kg) |
|
Enoki mushrooms |
China |
Listeria monocytogenes 260 KBE/g und 500 KBE/g (100 KBE/g) |
|
Parsley root |
Poland |
Cadmium 0,14 mg/kg (0,05 mg/kg) |
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Author: Dr. Frank Mörsberger
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