Pesticides in Food – the 4 quarter of 2025

Each quarter, the DTU National Food Institute and the Danish Veterinary, Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Agency report results from the Danish pesticide monitoring program.

The report for the 4 quarter of 2025 includes results from 327 conventional and organic grown samples and suspect samples of fruit, vegetables, cereals, processed products, baby food, and animal products, all analyzed for pesticide residues.

In five samples, pesticide residues were found in concentrations exceeding the maximum residue limit where a health risk could not be excluded.

These samples include:

• Omethoate in strawberries from China
• Oxamyl in round luffa cucumber from Mexico
• Chlorpyrifos in dill seeds from Libanon
• Chlorpyrifos in coriander seeds from India
• Buprofezin in mangoes from Thailand

When the pesticide content in a food product exceeds the legal limit, the product must not be sold. If the content is assessed to pose a potential health risk, the product is also recalled from the market, and a notification may be issued via the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF). 5 RASFF notifications were issued in connection with pesticide residue findings in the 4 quarter of 2025.

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See the quarterly report: Pesticides in Food – Pesticide Monitoring of Food, the 4 quarter of 2025
The quarterly report only includes the samples analyzed during that specific quarter.

The results from the Danish Veterinary, Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Agency’s pesticide monitoring will be reported in more detail in the annual report on pesticide residues in food, which is prepared by the DTU National Food Institute in collaboration with the Danish Veterinary, Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Agency The report is published in the second half of the year the following year in which the samples were collected.

Find the quarterly report, previous quarterly reports and annual reports, and more information about pesticide residues at food.dtu.dk