EFSA 2009 Annual report on pesticide residues - PAN Europe

<strong>2009</strong> EU Report on Pesticide Residues
Map 2-1: EU+NCP - Number of surveillance samples taken in <strong>2009</strong> by each <strong>report</strong>ing country normalised by the
national population 46 .
Depending on the sampling strategy applied, the national programmes are classified as either
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In the surveillance programmes, samples are taken without any particular suspicion towards a
specific producer and/or consignment. The EU-coordinated control programme is an example of a
surveillance programme. However, the national surveillance programmes are in most cases more
targeted to achieve the objectives defined in the national control programmes and are therefore
already focussed on specific pre-selected food products and countries, but the selection of the
consignment/lot is randomised.
In <strong>2009</strong>, the majority of the samples taken are classified as surveillance samples (66,550 samples,
97.9% of the total number of samples). Table 2-6 splits them up into the different product groups.
46 Source of population per country <strong>2009</strong>: Eurostat
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