This dataset contains the monitoring results of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances measured in live animals and animal products analysed by the national competent authority of Estonia. The presence of unauthorised substances, residues of veterinary medicinal products in food may pose a risk factor for public health.
\nFor this reason and in order to ensure a high level of consumer protection, a comprehensive legislative framework has been established in the European Union (EU) which defines maximum limits permitted in food and monitoring programmes for the control of the presence of these substances in the food chain. Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 establishes maximum limits for residues of veterinary medicinal products in food-producing animals and animal products. Maximum residue levels for pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1646 lays down practical arrangements for and specific content of official controls of the use of veterinary medicinal products in live animals and products of animal origin through three different official national control plans: a national risk-based control plan for production in the Member States, a national randomised surveillance plan for production in the Member States and a national risk-based control plan for third-country imports. Additionally, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 lays down the range of samples and stage of production, processing and distribution at which the samples are to be taken.
\nSince 2018 until 2022, the data on the national residue monitoring plan were reported to EFSA in accordance with Council Directive 96/23/EC.
\nThe dataset contains the results of laboratory tests from samples taken from bovines, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits, farmed game, wild game aquaculture, milk, eggs and honey, and from 2023 also samples from casings, insects and reptiles.
\nTargeted samples are taken with the aim of detecting illegal treatment or controlling compliance with the maximum levels laid down in the relevant legislation. This means that, in their national plans Member States target the groups of animals (species, gender, age) where the probability of finding residues is the highest. Conversely, the objective of random sampling is to collect significant data to evaluate, for example, consumer exposure to a specific substance.
\nSuspect samples are taken as a consequence of i) non-compliant results on samples taken in accordance with the control plans, ii) possession or presence of prohibited substances at any point during manufacture, storage, distribution or sale through the food and feed production chain, or iii) suspicion or evidence of illegal treatment or non-compliance with the withdrawal period for an authorised medicinal veterinary product.
\nResidues of pharmacologically active substances mean active substances, excipients or degradation products and their metabolites, which remain in food.
\nUnauthorised substances mean substances that are not authorised as veterinary medicinal products or as a feed additive under European Union legislation.
\nProhibited substances mean substances which are prohibited for use in food producing animals according to the European Union legislation.
\nNon-compliant sample is a sample that has been analysed for the presence of one or more substances and failed to comply with the legal provisions for at least one substance. Thus, a sample can be non-compliant for one or more substances.
\nREPORTING AUTHORITIES CONTRIBUTING TO EACH DATA COLLECTION:
\nVMPR_2024 – Agriculture and Food Board
\nVMPR_2023 – Agriculture and Food Board
\nVMPR_2022 – Agriculture and Food Board
\nVMPR_2021 – Agriculture and Food Board
\nVMPR_2020 – Agriculture and Food Board
\nVMPR_2019 – Veterinary and Food Board
\nVMPR_2018 – Veterinary and Food Board
\nVMPR_2017 – Veterinary and Food Board
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