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3 Monitoring- Report 2017 Futtermittel Monitoring- Report 2020 QS Fachgesellschaft Obst-Gemüse-Kartoffeln and DFHV Deutscher Fruchthandelsverband e.V. PERCENTAGE OF MRL EXPLOITATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES* For the Monitoring-Report QS and DFHV evaluated 924 pepper samples. 44.2% of all samples contained no residues of plant protection products. 704 samples, so three quarters (76%) of the samples examined, came from the EU (excluding Germany), of which 314 samples were from the Netherlands and 307 from Spain. A further 125 samples were from German goods and 95 samples from non-EU countries, mainly Morocco. Positive conclusion: 44.2% of all samples were residue-free, including 76% of the German, 55% of the Dutch and 30% of the Spanish goods. A further 38.1% of the pepper samples contained only one or two active substances. One sample from each Morocco, Spain and Turkey contained 9 active substances. For al- most 96% of the analysis results the MRLs were only used up to a maximum of 30%. The 15 MRL exceedances recorded concerned the active substances acetamiprid, chlorpyrifos, flonicamid, pirimiphos-methyl and tau-fluvalinate , among others. Overall, more than 60 different active substances were detected, most frequently the fungicides fluopyram, flutriafol, flu- dioxonil and azoxystrobin , followed by the insecticides chlorantraniliprol and pyridalyl. 761 cucumber samples from eight countries were analysed for residues of plant protection products. Positive: in 330 samples (43.4%) no active substances were found. In the remaining 431 samples, a total of 50 different plant protection active substances were found. Of these, 352 samples contained one to three active substances, representing approximately 46.3% of the total number of samples. The most frequently detected substance overall was the fungicide propamocarb (246 detections). In 71.7% of the detections, the concentration of the active substances reached 10% of the maximum residue limit. MRL ex- ceedances were only detected in five cases (0.5%). In these cases, the detected substances were dithiocarbamates , car- bendazim, flonicamide, thiacloprid and propamocarb . All analysed samples were from the EU, with the largest shares coming from the Netherlands (250 samples), Spain (224 samples) and Germany (210 samples). Exploitation of MRL in % Proportion of active substances in % *Basis: Number of all active substances detected 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 ≤ 1 > 1-10 > 10-20 > 20-30 > 30-40 > 40-50 > 50-60 > 60-70 > 70-80 > 80-90 > 90-100 > 100 13.3 68.5 10.4 3.5 1.1 0.9 0.4 0.2 0 0.2 0.4 1.4 QS and DFHV evaluated 194 chinese cabbage / pak choi samples. Nearly half of them (47.4%) did not have any residues of plant protection products. The analysed samples mainly came from Germany (161 samples), followed by the Netherlands (14 samples) and Spain (13 samples) in the second and third places. 47.4% of all samples contained no active substance and a further 46.9% contained one to two active substances. Only five samples (2.6%) were found to contain the active substan- ces of four different plant protection products. The MRL concentration is positive: 93.1% of the detected active substances contained up to a maximum of only 10% of the legal maximum levels. A further 4.1% of the detected substances presented a concentration between 10% and 20% of the MRLs and only 2.8% between 30% and 100%. Also, very satisfactory: none of the chinese cabbage/pak choi samples exceeded the MRLs. 17 different active sub- stances were detected in total. The insecticide spirotetra- mat was detected in 77 samples (39.7%), the most common. Chinese cab- bage/pak choi Proportion of samples in % Number of active substances 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 44.2 23.3 14.8 5.7 1.9 0.9 0.8 8 0 10 20 30 40 50 0.1 0.3 NUMBER OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES DETECTED PER SAMPLE Proportion of samples in % Number of active substances 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 43.4 23.8 15.4 7.1 5.3 3.3 1.1 0.5 0.1 0.1 0 10 20 30 40 50 Exploitation of MRL in % Proportion of active substances in % *Basis: Number of all active substances detected ≤ 1 > 1-10 > 10-20 > 20-30 > 30-40 > 40-50 > 50-60 > 60-70 > 70-80 > 80-90 > 90-100 > 100 11 60.7 19 4.1 2.1 1.3 0.5 0.3 0 0.2 0.3 0.5 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 PERCENTAGE OF MRL EXPLOITATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES* NUMBER OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES DETECTED PER SAMPLE Exploitation of MRL in % Proportion of active substances in % *Basis: Number of all active substances detected ≤ 1 > 1-10 > 10-20 > 20-30 > 30-40 > 40-50 > 50-60 > 60-70 > 70-80 > 80-90 > 90-100 > 100 32.4 60.7 4.1 0 0.7 0.7 0 0 0 0.7 0.7 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 PERCENTAGE OF MRL EXPLOITATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES* Active substance Number of samples 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Dimethomorph Acetamiprid Pirimicarb Dithiocarbamate Lambda-Cyhalothrin Difenoconazol Metazachlor Azoxystrobin Boscalid Spirotetramat 3 3 4 4 5 6 8 8 11 77 TOP-10 OF THE DETECTED ACTIVE SUBSTANCES Peppers Cucumbers