EU publishes its monitoring programme for a coordinated multiannual control programme for 2026, 2027 and 2028 to ensure compliance with MRLs and to assess consumer exposure. EU Member states must take and analyse samples for the pesticide/product combinations as set out in Annex 1 and summarised below.
Commodity focus includes dried beans, rye, wheat, oats, brown rice and barley.
Pesticides under monitoring, 2026, 2027 and 2028:
2,4D brown rice and dried beans 2026
2 Phenylphenol bromide ion rye and brown rice 2026
Chlormequat in rye, brown rice and dried beans 2026, oats and barley 2028
Chlorothaalonil dried beans in 2026
Cypromazine in dried beans in 2026
Ethephon – wheat 2027 and barley 2028
Ethyl oxide – dried beans and brown rice 2026
Fluazilop-P dried beans 2026
Glufosinate Allumium brown rice and dried beans 2026
Glyphosate – dried beans, brown rice, rye, wheat 2027 and oats and barley 2028
Haloxyfop – dried beans 2026 and wheat 2027
Isoprothiolane – brown rice 2026
Mepiquat – dried beans, rye, brown rice 2026, wheat 2027 barley and oats 2028
Prothiconazole – rye, brown rice, 2026, wheat 2027 and oats barley 2028
Propanocarb – dried beans 2026 wheat 2027 barley 2028
Tricylazole – brown rice 2026
Trimethyl-sulfoniumcation brown rice and dried beans 2026 and oats 2027
Trinexapac rye 2026, wheat 2027 and barley oats 2028
Please refer to the regulation 854/2025 for full details: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/854 of 7 May 2025 concerning a coordinated multiannual control programme of the Union for 2026, 2027 and 2028 to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/989
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