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Old 24-05-2003, 06:23 PM
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Default The dangers of weed killers - Glyphostae aka Roundup, the hidden killer.

Jim Webster writes

Results 2001
A total of 179 samples of strawberries were tested for 42 pesticide residues
in
various combinations or suites (see footnote to Table 13). Half of the
samples
were UK origin and half were imported. Residues were found in 115 (64%)
samples.


Remember residues means it was detected, the actual levels may well (and
probably were) far below the MRL.

Given 179 samples:

The MRL exceedances were as follows: dicofol (MRL 0.02 mg/kg2) was
found at 0.2 mg/kg in 2 UK samples;


1.1%

kresoxim-methyl (MRL 0.05 mg/kg3) was
found at 0.09 mg/kg in a UK sample;


0.6%

penconazole (CAC MRL 0.1 m/kg) was
found in a sample from Israel at 0.2 mg/kg.


0.6%

These are pretty low occurrences, still well below the ADI.

In addition, a number of residues were found with no
MRLs: bupirimate found at 0.02 - 0.8 mg/kg; fenhexamid found at 0.05 -
4.3 mg/kg; pyrimethanil found at 0.02 - 0.9 mg/kg; cyprodinil found at
0.02 -
0.1 mg/kg; trifloxystrobin found at 0.06 mg/kg. Risk assessments (see the
section on 'Dietary intake implications' for full details) have shown that
none of
the residues were of concern for consumer health.


No cause for concern.

Seventy-eight (44%)
samples were found to contain up to 6 multiple residues. Three of the
samples tested were labelled as organic and did not contain any residues.


1.7% of samples tested were organic.

Please Note, In the document you quoted it specifically says NONE OF THE
RESIDUES FOUND WERE OF CONCERN FOR CONSUMER HEALTH


Hardly surprising given the sensitivity of modern analytical techniques.

Celery (Table 4)
Introduction
Celery has been sampled regularly as part of the rolling programme, mainly
due to concerns over MRL exceedances in imported sources, in particular of
Spanish origin (the main source of imported celery).



Previous surveys have
also highlighted problems with residues in organic produce.


Quite.

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