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UK competent authority for pesticide residues in food 2025 report

Summary of the work carried out by the Health and Safety Executive on the control plans for pesticide residues in food in 2025.

• From: Health and Safety Executive and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 30 October 2026

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UK competent authorities for pesticide residues in food: annual report for 2025

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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. Check previous annual reports, or see the data which 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.