Pesticide Residue Control Results. National Summary REPORT. Country: Austria. Year: National competent authority/organisation:

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1 Pesticide Residue Control Results National Summary REPORT Country: Austria Year: 2010 National competent authority/organisation: Austrian Federal Ministry of Health Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Web address where the national annual report is published: kontrolle/monitoringprogramme/nationales_rueckstandsmonitoring_obst_und_gemuese Page 1 of 5

2 1. Objective and design of the national monitoring programme Responsibilities The national pesticide monitoring is done according to a nation-wide sampling plan designed by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Area Data, Statistics and Risk Assessment in cooperation with the Federal Minister of Health. The plan was based on data concerning dietary consumption, production and import of fruits and vegetables and results of former measurements. Furthermore the results of earlier monitoring-programmes and the analytical possibilities were taken into account too. The co-ordinated programme of the European Commission was of course also done. In addition routine samples were taken from the Austrian market by the responsible staff. Design of Programmes (priorities, targeting, criteria for the percentage of samples to be taken from the organic sector) Due to the fact, that there were some commodities for the national programme isolated, of which higher risk for residues was identified in the last years, these specific data are representative for the Austrian market, but the monitoring has to be seen partially as targeted monitoring. It was the aim, to reflect to the results of the last years and to choose special commodities of interest for further examination. This type of monitoring is foreseen for the next years. One special part of the national programme was sampling of fruits and vegetables from organic farming. Sampling: personnel, procedures, sampling points The samples were taken by trained officials from the local Food Inspection Service ( Lebensmittelaufsicht ) in accordance to the Commission Directive 2002/63/EC, which is implemented in the internal quality assurance system of the officials. The samples were predominantly taken at the retail or wholesale level. Analytical methods used The analytical methods were adopted from published methods of the Dutch federal laboratories ( Analytical Methods for Pesticide Residues in Foodstuffs, 6th Ed., General Inspectorate for Health Protection, Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands) and validated in the laboratories. The samples were analysed up to a maximum of 510 substances. The methods used were a GC multimethod with ECD-, NPD- and FPD-detection. GC/MS-methods are primarily applied for confirmation purposes of the other GC methods. In addition the methodology of LC/MS was established 2006 and is used more frequently since that time. Page 2 of 5

3 2. Key findings, interpretation of the results and comparability with the previous year results In 2010 a total of 1248 samples of fresh fruits and vegetables were analysed under the coordinated programme, the national pesticide monitoring programme and as routine samples. Beside that other products like cereals (76 samples), processed products (538 samples), animal products (508 samples) and baby food (107 samples) were analyzed. In sum 2510 samples were examined for pesticide residues. 46,2 % of all samples were from Austria, 33,8 % from the European market, 17,5 % from third countries and the rest from unknown origin. The percentage of surveillance samples with residues above the MRL were 0,5 %, 1,8 %, 7,7 % and 1,6 % respectively (without taking into account the measurement uncertainty). In 46 % of the samples (surveillance and enforcement) of fruits and vegetables including not separately in the validation report mentioned plant products no pesticide-residues could be detected. 50 % of the samples had residues under or at the Maximum Residue Limits (MRL). 4,4 % of the samples of fruits and vegetables contained one or more pesticide(s) above MRL (55 samples) (without taking into account the measurement uncertainty). Taking into account the measurement uncertainty, only 27 samples of fruits and vegetables contained pesticide residues above the MRL and were noncompliant (surveillance 1,8 %, enforcement 10,6 %). In 487 samples (19,4 %) more than one pesticide was analysed. Up to 10 pesticides were found (10 different pesticide residues in three samples table grapes and one sample peppers). 89 samples were taken as enforcement samples, of which 8 samples contained pesticide residues above the MRL and were non-compliant. Even if an increased number of substances was analysed in the samples, the number of noncompliances clearly decreased in comparison to the last years. This seems to be an effect because of the harmonized MRLs laid down by the European legislative in the year Page 3 of 5

4 3. Non-compliant samples: possible reasons and actions taken In 2010 in sum 32 samples were non-compliant with the EU-MRLs taking into account the measurement uncertainty. For these administrative actions were set by the responsible officials from the local Food Inspection Service. Number of non-compliant samples Action taken Note 24 Administrative Actions 8 Administrative Actions and RASFF notification RASFF-ref: (Sample code ) RASFF-ref: (Sample Code ) RASFF-ref: (Sample code ) RASFF-ref : (Sample code ) RASFF-ref: (Sample Code ) RASFF-ref: (Sample Code ) RASFF-ref: (Sample code ) RASFF-ref: (Sample code ) Page 4 of 5

5 4. Quality assurance Status of accreditation of laboratories, number of laboratories The analysis of the co-ordinated programme, the national monitoring programme and routine samples were made by two laboratories for food control (Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Institute for Food Control, Vienna and Institute for Food Control, Innsbruck together with the there located competence-centres for pesticide-analyses (CC-RANA, CC-PSRM)). One additional Laboratory in Vienna (Regional Institute for Food Control in Vienna (LUA3)) analysed routine samples. All laboratories got the accreditation in the year 1998 and the methods for pesticide analyses are still accredited. Country code AT Laboratory Name Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Institutes and Competence centres) Laboratory Code CC BIOC CC PSMR CC RANA ILMU-GRZ ILMU-IBK ILMU-LNZ ILMU-SBG ILMU-VIE Accreditation Date Accreditation Body BMWA Participation in proficiency tests or interlaboratory tests -CF, (Denmark), EUPT-C4 (EU Proficiency test for Cereals) -FV12 (EU Proficiency test for Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables) -FV-SM-02 (EU Proficiency test for Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables, Screening Methods) AT Regional Institute for Food Control in Vienna Proficiency test for Single Residue Methods) EUPT-C4 (rye flour) EUPT-AO05 (meat paste spig) FAPAS 0570 (hardened vegetable oil) AFSSA ACA-CF-MI (honey) LUA BMWA FAPAS Proficiency Test FAPAS Proficiency Test Page 5 of 5