Mar 27th, 2024
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The European Foods Safety Authority (EFSA) have recently reported their 2022 results from the monitoring of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances in live animals and animal products across EU Member States, Iceland, and Norway.
A total of 600,320 samples were reported to the European Commission consisting of:
- 342,850 targeted samples
- 3,892 suspect samples reported under Council Directive 96/23/EC,
- 2,772 samples collected at import
- 250,806 samples collected in the framework of programmes developed under the national legislation.
The report shows that most countries fulfilled the minimum requirements for sampling frequency and overall, the percentage of non-compliant samples in 2022 (0.18%) was comparable to the previous 13 years (0.17%-0.37%).
You can read the report in full here.
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