On April 7, 2017, the Commission Implementing Regulation 2017/660 ("Regulation") was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The Regulation is a coordinated multiannual control EU program for years 2018, 2019, and 2020, 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. This Regulation is intended to monitor pesticides contained in foodstuffs over a series of three-year cycles to allow consumer exposure and the application of EU legislation to be assessed. The Regulation requires that EU Member States, throughout these years, take and analyze samples for the pesticide/product combinations as listed in Annex I to the Regulation. Such samples include, for example, the presence of 2-Phenylphenol, acephate, biphenyl, or glyphosate in wheat grains, bananas, or broccoli, for 2018.
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