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UK competent authorities for pesticide residues in food: annual report for 2024

Summary of the work carried out by the Health and Safety Executive on the control plans for pesticide residues in food in 2024.

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the UK competent authority for pesticide residues in food. HSE is responsible for producing annual reports on the monitoring of pesticides in food in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.

These annual reports summarise the work and results of the control plan for pesticide residues in food. The data is published on data.gov.uk.

The results of the 2021 to 2023 pesticide testing programmes were published on GOV.UK.

Before 2021, the results of the pesticide testing programme were published in the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF) annual report.

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Published 20 November 2025

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