Category Research project
  • Analytik
  • Expositionsschätzung
  • Toxikologie

First update of the EU database of processing factors for pesticide residues

Project status
Completed
Project start
Nov 2020
Project end
May 2022
Acronym
Processing Database
Department
Sicherheit von Pestiziden

Description and Objective

The EU database of processing factors for pesticide residues has been set up in 2018 and will now be updated for the first time. Studies to be included were either provided to EFSAshort forEuropean Food Safety Authority in MRL setting or active substance approval procedures or they were submitted to BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in the framework of national or zonal authorization procedures. All studies will be thoroughly (re-)evaluated with respect to the well-proven set of quality parameters already applied in the EU database. Updates of the database and all accompanying documents will be provided.

Result

The EU database of processing factors for pesticide residues has been set up in 2018 and was now updated for the first time. 1301 processing studies were added to the database extending it to more than double size. The studies were either provided to EFSAshort forEuropean Food Safety Authority in MRL setting procedures or pesticide peer reviews or they were submitted to BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in the framework of national or zonal authorization procedures. All studies have been thoroughly (re-)evaluated with respect to the well-proven set of quality parameters already applied in the EU database. Processing factors were derived and their reliability and validity judged. For newly reported processes such as palm oil and palm kernel oil production, sugar production from sugar cane and sake production from rice the representative processes have been described. Furthermore, new processed matrices such as selected cooked vegetables or pulses have been added to the database and to the accompanying documents.The scientific report is published: Zincke F, Fischer A, Kittelmann A, Kraus C, Scholz R, Michalski B, 2022. First update of the EU database of processing factors for pesticide residues. EFSAshort forEuropean Food Safety Authority supporting publication 2022:EN-7453. 22 pp. doi:10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.EN-7453The accompanying documents are published at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6564208, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6564210, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6564214 und https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1488652.
Type of project

Third-party funded project

Research focus

Gesundheit von Mensch, Tier und Umwelt (One Health) / Nachweis von Kontaminanten und zur Bewertung chemischer Risiken

Organisational units and partners

Lead specialist group: Rückstände und Analyseverfahren (65)
Contact persons: Dr. Britta Michalski

Funding body and grant number

Europäische Behörde für Lebensmittelsicherheit
GP/EFSAshort forEuropean Food Safety Authority/AMU/2020/02-SA04

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