How does the Ministry of Agriculture respond to pesticide residues in food?

“The problem of pesticide and veterinary drug residues needs to be understood and treated correctly. As long as crops and animals use pesticides and veterinary drugs to treat diseases and insect pests, residues may form.” On the morning of August 17, the Agricultural Products Quality and Safety Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture Director Guang Defu said at a press conference of the Ministry of Agriculture that the presence of pesticide residues in food does not mean it is unsafe. The key depends on whether the residue value exceeds the national food safety standards.

According to Guangdefu, my country’s pesticide and veterinary drug residue limits are obtained through scientific experiments and risk assessments, and a 100-fold safety threshold is set. As long as the food is within the standard limit, the food It's safe.

Food pesticide residues refer to the fact that after pesticide formulations are directly applied to crops, penetrating pesticides mainly adhere to the surface of vegetables, fruits and other crops, and most of them can be washed away. Therefore, the concentration of pesticides on the outside of the crops is higher than inside.