This study has been conducted by National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service(NAQS) for the evaluation of the residual pesticides in the mostly consumed 54 agricultural products produced in Korea in the last three years. As the results were analyzed and the risk assessment was done, the unacceptable average rate on pesticide analysis was 2.4% which is equivalent to 1,307 out of the total 43,601 times. It is only 0 to 1% of ADI value for the analyzed pesticides, indicating that the tested agricultural products were safe as they were below the level of MRL. The exposure assessment was done using @Risk program to find 95% value and 99% value. With the statistical analysis, the residual pesticides were determined to be below the MRL value and it was safe to the consumers of infants, adolescences, and adults. Using the distribution of diet consumption on agricultural products and the distribution of consumption onf the residual pesticides, the Monte-Carlo simulation method showed the residual pesticides in the agricultural products with the 0 to 0.5% of ADI and ARfD values. Therefore, it was not exceeding over ADI and ARfD.

Risk assessment and monitoring for pesticide residues of agricultural products in Korea

248th National Meeting (2014)

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